On the surface, Loretta Young was the saintly good girl—an actress as moral and sweet as the roles she chose to play. But she was so much more than that. For her entire life, she worked tirelessly to ...

Named for Loretta Young and delivered by “Old Aunt Harriet,” an 80-year-old blind midwife, Loretta was born in a two-room log cabin in a small coal-mining community of eastern Kentucky.