Zoe Wanamaker

Her stage performance in Sophocles' Electra was widely acclaimed. and one for television at 6141 Hollywood Blvd. Successful TV series included Love Hurts with Adam Faith and My Family with Robert Lindsay. Young has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; one for motion pictures at 6104 Hollywood Blvd. She has also appeared in a variety of films, programmes, and plays. She died of ovarian cancer in 2000 at the age of 87 and was interred in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California. She played Clarice, one of the dimwitted twin sisters of Lord Groan in Gormenghast, a BBC television adaptation of Mervyn Peake's trilogy. Her trademark at the beginning of each show was to appear dramatically in a doorway, dressed in the latest of high fashion evening gowns.

She is probably best-known by a world-wide audience for her role as Madam Hooch in the film Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Instead, she moved to television, where she hosted and starred in the well-received anthology series The Loretta Young Show. She is the daughter of American film director Sam Wanamaker, who led the project to rebuild the Globe Theatre in London. In 1953 she made her last movie, It Happens Every Thursday. Zoe Wanamaker (born May 13, 1949) is an American actress who lives and works in the United Kingdom. In 1949, she received another Academy Award nomination, for Come to the Stable. The same year she starred in The Bishop's Wife, a perennial favorite that still airs on television during the Christmas season.

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. Young made several movies, working on as many as seven or eight a year. 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. They told the whole world that the little girl had been adopted.

She and her mother moved to Europe, returning with a daughter. In 1934, Young had an affair with Clark Gable, and became pregnant. (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. In 1930, Young, then only seventeen, ran off with 26-year-old actor Grant Withers and married him in Yuma, Arizona.

The next year, she was anointed one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars. It was not until 1928 that she first had her Loretta Young billing, in The Whip Woman. She was billed as Gretchen Young in her next film, also in 1917, Sirens of the Sea. Her half-sister Georgiana (daughter of her mother and step-father George Belzer) eventually married actor Ricardo Montalban.

Even though her mother said no, Gretchen was allowed to live with Murray for two years. The movie's star, Mae Murray, so fell in love with little Gretchen that she asked to adopt her. 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.