ACTOR

Loretta Young

1913 - 2000

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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 1953. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Loretta Young has received more than 5,456,087 page views. Her biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Loretta Young is the 1,064th most popular actor (down from 960th in 2019), the 1,853rd most popular biography from United States (down from 1,764th in 2019) and the 502nd most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 5.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.46

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 61

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Loretta Young ranks 1,064 out of 13,578. Before her are Emmanuelle Seigner, Daniel Radcliffe, Shilpa Shetty, Frances Fisher, Joan Allen, and Liam Hemsworth. After her are Bernard Lee, Yaphet Kotto, Tommy Wiseau, Agnes Moorehead, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, and Run Run Shaw.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Loretta Young ranks 80. Before her are Mark Felt, Paul Grice, Lloyd Bridges, Wolfgang Lüth, Philip Abelson, and Johannes Steinhoff. After her are Marika Rökk, Stanley Kramer, Shih Kien, 'Abd al-Ilah, Eddie Constantine, and Haxhi Lleshi. Among people deceased in 2000, Loretta Young ranks 61. Before her are John Harsanyi, Lolo Ferrari, Friedrich Gulda, Ion Gheorghe Maurer, Herta Bothe, and Jean-Pierre Rampal. After her are Heinz Harmel, Giorgio Bassani, Hirokazu Ninomiya, Keizō Obuchi, Noboru Takeshita, and Don Budge.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Loretta Young ranks 1,853 out of 20,380. Before her are Michael Bay (1965), Frederick Cook (1865), Tom Courtney (1933), Adelaide Hall (1901), Jasper Johns (1930), and Joan Allen (1956). After her are Isamu Noguchi (1904), Yaphet Kotto (1939), Carole King (1942), Agnes Moorehead (1900), Dave Bautista (1969), and Johnny Ramone (1948).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Loretta Young ranks 502. Before her are Wallace Shawn (1943), Dean Cain (1966), Mary Steenburgen (1953), Marcia Cross (1962), Richard Schiff (1955), and Joan Allen (1956). After her are Yaphet Kotto (1939), Agnes Moorehead (1900), Kathryn Joosten (1939), Jeffrey Dean Morgan (1966), Stacy Keach (1941), and Megan Fox (1986).

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