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Ear-clips – large pear-shaped cabochon emeralds capped by round diamonds, surmounted by a diamond-set curling ribbon. Loretta Young jewellery

Loretta Young jewellery

An actress known within the film industry as ‘Hollywood’s Beautiful Hack’, she starred in so many mediocre movies. In a career that began in 1927, Young appeared in more than 90 films, yet she was personally memorable due to her big doe eyes and high cheekbones. She was truly one of Hollywood’s most striking beauties and one of the first to win an Oscar and an Emmy award and to command a six-figure salary.
A true jewellery lover, Loretta Young could afford a large collection of expensive high, as well as costume jewellery. Looking through her photographs, one can hardly find Loretta not wearing clips, a necklace, a brooch or a bracelet. She was synonymous with the glamour, that was Hollywood in the 1930s and 40s. In the above photo Loretta wears the brooch by Ruser, circa 1960 (est. $10/15,000).

Loretta Young and her second husband Tom Lewis

Loretta Young and her second husband Tom Lewis. Loretta in her emerald and diamond ear clips. The emeralds are detachable and may also be worn as additional pendants on the emerald and diamond set clips

Born Gretchen Michaela Young, she was the product of a broken home. Her mother gathered up her daughters and went to Hollywood in the hope of getting the kids into show business. Loretta was briefly a child actress in bit roles before receiving a convent education. Later, when she was 14, director Mervyn Le Roy called, wanting Loretta’s older sister, Polly Ann, for a small role in Naughty but Nice (1927). In Polly Ann’s absence, Loretta asked to play the role instead, and Le Roy agreed.

TV Guide. Loretta in her emerald and diamond ear clips

TV Guide. Loretta in her emerald and diamond ear clips

Young had a sensitive, ethereal quality on film in her youth, and she soon found plenty of work. Among her noteworthy early films were Laugh Clown Laugh (1928) and The Squall (1929), in which she proved herself capable as an actress in sound films. During the first half of the 1930s, she usually played leading roles in the movies of bigger stars; few pictures were built around her.

Loretta Young jewellery

The Statue of Liberty, Loretta

The Statue of Liberty, Loretta

Young’s career went into a minor tailspin during the early 1940s, and she appeared in many lesser productions, although she shined as Alan Ladd’s love interest in China (1943). By this time, she had been in the movies for more than 15 years, and yet she was only in her early thirties. She was far too beautiful and far too young to be washed up, and she proved that she possessed both the skills and the drawing power to reclaim her position as a top Hollywood star.

Loretta Young jewellery

Wearing costume jewellery – large brooch/pin airplanes

Loretta Young was a second-tier glamour queen who had the nickname of ‘Hollywood’s Beautiful Hack.’ Only late in her movie career did she receive the kind of rich roles that allowed her to show her talent.

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Color photo of Young

Seeing no future in the movie business, Young turned to television and became the hostess and occasional star of The Loretta Young Show (1953–61). It was a rousing success and a multiple Emmy winner, thanks to her stunning wardrobe and grande-dame style, not to mention some fine dramatic moments. When the show went off the air, she resurfaced the following year in The New Loretta Young Show, but the public was no longer interested and it was soon cancelled. She lived in quiet retirement afterward, making news only in 1972 when she sued and won a court case against NBC, which had illegally aired her old TV series overseas.

Loretta Young jewellery

Loretta Young

Massive earrings

Young’s last television appearance was in Lady in a Corner (1989). The star of nearly 100 films died on August 12, 2000. A biography, Forever Young, by Joan Wester Anderson, revealed that Young’s “adopted” daughter, Judy, was in fact the illegitimate child of Young and Clark Gable, whose rumored liaison had been kept secret for fear that the scandal would ruin both their Hollywood careers.

Loretta Young jewellery

Hollywood diva

Loretta Young died at age 76, on August 12, 2000, from ovarian cancer, in Santa Monica, California, and was interred in the family plot in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California. Her ashes were buried in the grave of her mother. Her elder sisters had both died from cancer, as did her daughter, Judy Lewis, on November 25, 2011.

Loretta Young

Jewellery lover

Loretta Young jewellery

Loretta Young

Beautiful necklace of Loretta Young

Loretta Young

The actress used to wear lots of jewellery

Loretta Young

Flower brooch and flowers in a head wear

Loretta Young

Like a princess

Young

Loretta Young

Awesome look

Loretta Young

Sparkling dress and a parrot

Loretta Young

Movie star

Loretta Young

Wearing lots of chains

Loretta Young

Necklace of rings

Loretta Young

Blonde Queen

Loretta Young

Pearl lover

Loretta Young

Movie scene

Loretta Young

Elegance and beauty

Loretta Young

Glamorous actress

Loretta Young

Demonstrating her jewellery decorations

Loretta Young

Impressive cross pendant

Loretta Young

Stunningly beautiful Young

Loretta Young

Brilliant Loretta

Loretta Young

1941 photo

Loretta Young

Young in her favorite necklace of diamonds and white gold

Loretta Young

With Oscar Award, in her favorite necklace of diamonds and white gold

Loretta Young jewellery

Necklace of diamonds and white gold