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Loretta Young

NPR
Published August 11, 2000 at 11:00 PM CDT

NPR's Bob Mondello takes a look back at the life and career of actress Loretta Young. Young, who won an Oscar Award in 1947 for her role in The Farmer's Daughter, died today of ovarian cancer.

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