CONTENTS

Preface

 

1.   Life without Father

2.   The Creation of Loretta Young

3.   LORETTA TALKS!

4.   Sacrificial Wives, Shop Girls, and Proud Proletarians

5.   Loaned Out

6.   Last Days at Warner’s

7.   Darryl Zanuck’s Costume Queen

8.   The Men in Her Life

9.   Heeding the Call of the Wild

10. The Great Lie

11. Return from the Ashes

12. Addio, Darryl

13. The Price of Freedom

14. Loretta Goes to War

15. “Age cannot wither” (but Hollywood Can)

16. Thrice Blessed: A Reunion, a Replacement, and an Oscar

17. The Return to Fox—and Zanuck

18. Slow Fade to Small Screen

19. Radio Days

20. Another Medium, Another Conquest

21. The Road to Retirement

22. A New Life

23. The Last Reel

Notes

Filmography

Major Radio Appearances

Major Television Appearances

Index