The best Loretta Young’s drama movies

Loretta Young

Loretta Young

06/01/1913- 12/08/2000
Today we present the best Loretta Young’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Loretta Young’s movies.
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The Stranger

The Stranger
7.3/10
A man working for the War Crimes Commission suspects that an important Nazi official has folded himself into a quaint Connecticut town.

The Bishop's Wife

The Bishop's Wife
7.6/10
An Episcopal Bishop, Henry Brougham, has been working for months on the plans for an elaborate new cathedral which he hopes will be paid for primarily by a wealthy, stubborn widow. He is losing sight of his family and of why he became a churchman in the first place. Enter Dudley, an angel sent to help him. Dudley does help everyone he meets, but not necessarily in the way they would have preferred. With the exception of Henry, everyone loves him, but Henry begins to believe that Dudley is there to replace him, both at work and in his family's affections, as Christmas approaches.

Call of the Wild

Call of the Wild
6.8/10
Jack Thornton has trouble winning enough at cards for the stake he needs to get to the Alaska gold fields. His luck changes when he pays $250 for Buck, a sled dog that is part wolf to keep him from being shot by an arrogant Englishman also headed for the Yukon. En route to the Yukon with Shorty Houlihan -- who spent time in jail for opening someone else's letter with a map of where gold is to be found -- Jack rescues a woman whose husband was the addressee of that letter. Buck helps Jack win a $1,000 bet to get the supplies he needs. And when Jack and Claire Blake pet Buck one night, fingers touch.

China

China
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 21/04/1943
  • Character: Carolyn Grant
Shortly before Pearl Harbor, American opportunist Jones and partner Johnny are in China to sell oil to the invading Japanese army. Cynical about the sufferings of the Chinese, Jones meets compassionate teacher Carolyn Grant while travelling cross-country to Shanghai. Sparks fly between these strong-willed characters, neither budging an inch. But when Jones witnesses a Japanese atrocity, his feelings toward his customers (and Carolyn) begin to change...

Cause for Alarm!

Cause for Alarm!
6.4/10
A bedridden and gravely ill man believes his wife and doctor are conspiring to kill him, and outlines his suspicions in a letter.

Rachel and the Stranger

Rachel and the Stranger
7/10
A widowed farmer takes an indentured servant as his new wife, but the arrival of a passing stranger threatens their burgeoning relationship.

Midnight Mary

Midnight Mary
7/10
A young woman is on trial for murder. In flashback, we learn of her struggles to overcome poverty as a teenager -- a mistaken arrest and prison term for shoplifting and lack of employment lead to involvement with gangsters. In a brothel, she meets a young lawyer, scion of a wealthy and prestigious family, who falls for her and helps her turn around her life. But her past catches up with her, and she must face the music rather than cause him scandal.

Suez

Suez
6.6/10
Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal.

Eternally Yours

Eternally Yours
5.7/10
Anita, engaged to solid Don Barnes, is swept off her feet by magician Arturo. Before you can say presto, she's his wife and stage assistant on a lengthy world tour. But Anita is annoyed by Arturo's constant flirtations, and his death-defying stunts give her nightmares. And forget her plan to retire to a farmhouse. Eventually, she has had enough and disappears.

Taxi!

Taxi!
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 23/01/1932
  • Character: Sue Riley Nolan
Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a consolidated juggernaut rally around hot-tempered Matt Nolan. Nolan is determined to keep competition alive on the streets, even if it means losing the woman he loves.

War Nurse

War Nurse
6.1/10
Untrained, volunteer Nurses from America treat Allied soldiers behind and on the lines in France. They face the horrors of war, fight off the attentions of soldiers and face their own loneliness.

The Sheik

The Sheik
6.2/10
Sheik Ahmed desperately desires feisty British socialite Diana, so he abducts her and carries her off to his luxurious tent-palace in the desert. The free-spirited Diana recoils from his passionate embraces and yearns to be released. Later, allowed to go into the desert, she escapes and makes her way across the sands...

The Crusades

The Crusades
6.5/10
King Richard the Lionhearted launches a crusade to preserve Christianity in Jerusalem.

Life Begins

Life Begins
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 10/09/1932
  • Character: Grace Sutton
A day in the maternity ward from the lens of accepted morals and medical attitudes of 1932. The ward includes women from all walks of life and situations.

Café Metropole

Café Metropole
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 28/04/1937
  • Character: Laura Ridgeway
An American posing as a Russian prince woos a visiting Ohio heiress.

Heroes for Sale

Heroes for Sale
7.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 17/06/1933
  • Character: Ruth Loring
Tom Holmes is someone guided by honesty and moral rectitude, a heroic veteran of the World War I marked by the unbearable suffering caused by his battle wounds, a traumatized but courageous man who will experience, in the years to come, the pain of misfortune but also the happiness of success and hope and love for other human beings.

Play Girl

Play Girl
5.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 12/03/1932
  • Character: Buster 'Bus' Green Dennis
A young innocent falls for a compulsive gambler.

Come to the Stable

Come to the Stable
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 01/01/1949
  • Character: Sister Margaret
Two nuns arrive unannounced in the small New England town of Bethlehem, where they recruit various townspeople to help them build a children's hospital.

Employees' Entrance

Employees' Entrance
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 11/02/1933
  • Character: Madeleine
Kurt Anderson is the tyrannical manager of a New York department store in financial straits. He thinks nothing of firing an employee of more than 20 years or of toying with the affections of every woman he meets. One such victim is Madeline, a beautiful young woman in need of a job. Anderson hires her as a salesgirl, but not before the two spend the night together. Madeline is ashamed, especially after she falls for Martin West, a rising young star at the store. Her biggest fear is that Martin finds out the truth about her "career move."

Ramona

Ramona
6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 25/09/1936
  • Character: Señora Moreno
Half-Indian girl brought up in a wealthy household is loved by the son of the house against his family's wishes and loves another Indian employed by the household.

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