Loretta Young rates her leading men from hot to not: Interview with Edward Funk

Eavesdropping: Loretta Young Talks about her Movie Years by Edward J. Funk In the concurrent book, Behind the Door: the Real Life of Loretta Young, I delve into a select few of Loretta Young s ninetyeight films; enough to know she was a major movie star and her battles to get there and would remain for the next twentyfive years. Yet, Loretta and I had discussed ninety one of her films and that left so much material behind. This was in 1990 and since then, voices able to recall a career from the silent era, through the golden years of film, have been extinguished. Loretta s not just any voice; she tells us from a star s perspective, an accomplished Academy Award winning actress, and an exquisite beauty. She discusses the actors, the directors, the producers, the clothes (and more clothes ), what she learned about acting, her innumerable crushes on her leading men, her reputation for bei