Loretta biography
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Loretta Lynn
1932-2022
Who Was Loretta Lynn?
Loretta Lynn became a mainstay on the country charts after landing a Top 10 hit with the aptly named “Success.” Penning tracks that were often autobiographical and authentic, she wrote the No. 1 song “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” later published a book by the same name, and saw her life story depicted in an Oscar-nominated film. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Lynn had a slew of hits that included the chart-toppers “Fist City,” “Women of the World (Leave My World Alone),” “One’s on the Way,” “Trouble in Paradise,” and “She’s Got You,” as well as an array of popular collaborations with Conway Twitty. A member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, Lynn reinvigorated her career in 2004 with the Grammy-winning Van Lear Rose, produced by Jack White, followed by the 2016 album Full Circle. Lynn died in October 2022 at age 90.
Quick Facts
FULL NAME: Loretta Lynn
BORN: April 14, 1932
DIED: October 4, 2022
BIRTHPLACE: Butcher Hollow, Kentucky
SPOUSE: Oliver Lynn (1948-1996)
CHILDREN: Betty Sue, Jack Benny, Ernest Ray, Clara Marie, Peggy Jean, and Patsy Eileen
ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Aries
Early Life
Born Loretta Webb on April 14, 1932, in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, Lynn grew up in a small cabin in a poor Appalachian coal-mining community. T
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Biography
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Loretta Young
American actress (1913–2000)
Loretta Young (born Gretchen Michaela Young; January 6, 1913 – August 12, 2000) was an American actress. Starting as a child, she had a long and varied career in film from 1917 to 1989. She received numerous honors including an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and three Primetime Emmy Awards as well as two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her work in film and television.
She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the film The Farmer's Daughter (1947), and received her second Academy Award nomination for her role in Come to the Stable (1949). She also starred in films such as Born to Be Bad (1934), Call of the Wild (1935), The Crusades (1935), Eternally Yours (1939), The Stranger (1946), The Bishop's Wife (1947), and Key to the City (1950).
Young moved to the relatively new medium of television, where she had a dramatic anthology series, The Loretta Young Show, from 1953 to 1961. It earned three Primetime Emmy Awards, and was re-run successfully on daytime TV and later in syndication. She also starred in The New Loretta Young Show from 1962 to 1963. Young returned to the small screen in the 1980s starring in two NBC television movies, Christmas Eve (1986), for which she