Loretta Young

and one for television at 6141 Hollywood Blvd. Van Dyke received a Grammy Award for his performance on the soundtrack to Mary Poppins. Young has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; one for motion pictures at 6104 Hollywood Blvd. Dick's son Barry Van Dyke and grandson Carry Van Dyke are also actors: both Barry and Carry acted with Dick on Diagnosis: Murder. She died of ovarian cancer in 2000 at the age of 87 and was interred in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California. Dick Van Dyke is the brother of actor Jerry Van Dyke. Her trademark at the beginning of each show was to appear dramatically in a doorway, dressed in the latest of high fashion evening gowns. He created many of the 3D rendered effects shown in Diagnosis: Murder himself, and continues to work with LightWave 3D.

Instead, she moved to television, where she hosted and starred in the well-received anthology series The Loretta Young Show. One of Van Dyke's modern passions is producing 3D computer graphics. In 1953 she made her last movie, It Happens Every Thursday. His career seemed essentially over by 1990 when Van Dyke, whose usual role had been the amiable hero, took a villainous turn in Dick Tracy. He received positive reviews that led him to star in a series of TV movies on CBS that became the foundation for his popular television drama, Diagnosis: Murder, which ran from 1993 to 2001. In 1949, she received another Academy Award nomination, for Come to the Stable. It was at this time that Van Dyke admitted he had recently overcome a real-life drinking problem. The same year she starred in The Bishop's Wife, a perennial favorite that still airs on television during the Christmas season. The final scene in particular is regarded by many as chilling and unforgettable.

But although she was receiving fan and critical appreciation, it wasn't until 1947 that she received her first Oscar nomination -- and win -- for The Farmer's Daughter. Regarded by many as the most realistic television film ever made dealing with alcoholism, it is sometimes shown at treatment centers. Young made several movies, working on as many as seven or eight a year. Van Dyke received wide acclaim and an Emmy nomination. The daughter herself, known as Judy Lewis (she took Young's second husband's last name), did not know the true story until she herself was an adult. In 1974, however Van Dyke surprised everyone by appearing in his first dramatic role, as an alcoholic businessman in The Morning After. They told the whole world that the little girl had been adopted. After the mid-1960s, Van Dyke was in a number of relatively unsuccessful movies (though one, a children's film called Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, is still well-known, especially with the recent stage musical).

She and her mother moved to Europe, returning with a daughter. He said Laurel only laughed and said "I've noticed that". In 1934, Young had an affair with Clark Gable, and became pregnant. He once met Laurel and told him he had copied a great deal from him. (They had acted together in The Second Floor Mystery.) The marriage was annulled the next year, just as their second movie together, ironically called Too Young to Marry, came out. Dick Van Dyke was a great admirer of Stan Laurel and even gave the eulogy at his funeral. In 1930, Young, then only seventeen, ran off with 26-year-old actor Grant Withers and married him in Yuma, Arizona. Van Dyke's attempt at a Cockney accent was widely ridiculed (especially in the UK), but the film also showed his versatility as a singer and dancer.

The next year, she was anointed one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars. He slowly transitioned out of television into movie acting in Bye Bye, Birdie (1963), What a Way to Go! (1964) and, most notably, Walt Disney's Mary Poppins (1964), in which he played Bert, a Cockney chimney sweep, and also played, in heavy disguise, the elderly owner of the bank. It was not until 1928 that she first had her Loretta Young billing, in The Whip Woman. He then starred in his own sitcom, The Dick Van Dyke Show, which ran for five seasons – in the lead role of Rob Petrie, Van Dyke won three Emmy Awards. She was billed as Gretchen Young in her next film, also in 1917, Sirens of the Sea. Van Dyke's first major role was on stage in Bye Bye Birdie in 1960, for which he won a Tony Award. Her half-sister Georgiana (daughter of her mother and step-father George Belzer) eventually married actor Ricardo Montalban. He is most famous for his starring roles on The Dick Van Dyke Show (with Mary Tyler Moore) in the 1960s and Diagnosis: Murder in the 1990s.

Even though her mother said no, Gretchen was allowed to live with Murray for two years. December 13, 1925 in West Plains, Missouri), usually credited as Dick Van Dyke, is a noted American television and movie actor. The movie's star, Mae Murray, so fell in love with little Gretchen that she asked to adopt her. Richard Wayne Van Dyke (b. Her first role was at age 4 in the silent film The Primrose Ring. Born Gretchen Michaela Young in Salt Lake City, Utah, she moved with her family to Hollywood when she was three years old. Her sisters, Polly Ann Young and Elizabeth Jane Young (screen name Sally Blane) appeared in child parts in movies, and young Gretchen did the same.

Loretta Young (January 6, 1913 — August 12, 2000) was an American actress.