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7 Years
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Gilded Cage
And still Loretta Young is willing to sacrifice even love for major stardom
By Ben Maddox
I WANT you to come behind the scenes with me and look at Loretta Young's extraordinary life as it has really been! She has never before accurately revealed it. Today she is famous— and heartbroken for the third time. Now she is a woman who has been through much, and she is only twenty-one!
No other girl has ever had quite the same hectic experiences. Hers has been the life the average girl dreams of having. At fourteen a miraculous bit of luck favored her. With bewildering, Aladdin-like rapidity she became a leading lady in pictures. And the seven most impressionable years of her lite have been spent as a Hollywood celebrity. • . .
She escaped the commonplace and, a perpetual vision of charm, has tasted of Excitement, Fame, Fine Possessions, and— Love.
She quit the sheltered walls of a convent, in which she had been a day pupil ever since she had been old enough to go to school, to substitute for an older sister in a sequence of a Colleen Moore film. So instantly noticeable was her appeal that she was never allowed to return to a classroom. Within a rapid few months she was assigned to leading r61es. And that was the beginning of Loretta's fantastic "dream" existence. .
As a movie heroine she stepped, at fourteen, into maturity. She smiled and wept, enacted ardent love scenes and went through the mill of adult emotion for the cameras. Big-shot directors, delighted with the native fire they detected, put her through the gamut of drama. She has been trained and groomed and molded into an excellent actress and from the very first she has had that intangible warmth which has distinguished her from the crowd.
Off the screen her life has been equally enviable. At fourteen when the average girl is starting to high school, Loretta had a tutor and, instead of cramming algebra and kindred dry lessons, she was instructed in the things which had a direct bearing on her profession. She made personal appearances at glittery premieres in lieu of attending proms.
What girl hasn't longed for such a life? To be vibrantly (Continued on page 72)
Life began at fourteen for Loretta. At twentyone she says, "I'm not sorry I had no 'student prince' days!" as she looks back across the crowded years and reveals here for the first time what Hollywood celebrity has really meant to her.
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