Loretta Young: 100th Birthday Edition - Best of Complete Series

Background on The Loretta Young Show Anniversary Collection
As LY's daugher-in-law I can address some of the concerns expressed about the upcoming release of the LY Shows for those interested in the quality of the prints, etc.

Some of you maybe aware that NBC destroyed all 35mm negatives of the Loretta Young Shows when she sued them for breach of contract? For many years we didn't have prints available to market her programs, however in the 1990's a storage facility contacted us about returning 16mm prints they had been storing and were prepared to throw in the dumpster. Obviously, we were thrilled to get the prints.

The Loretta Young Show Collections are duplicated from the salvaged 16mm strike prints. Restoration would be difficult and extremely costly as the films are compromised, but it is our eventual goal. Of course, we'd love to discover her original pristine 35mm prints hidden away in a vault ... but in the meantime we're stuck with this source material.

We have respect & gratitude for our...

One of TV's all-time greatest anthologies in the biggest DVD set ever...
Loretta Young was one of Hollywood's biggest stars and one of the first to transition to television. Her much-imitated (and parodied) trademark was to come sweeping through a door in a designer outfit. But there was much more to the show that a grand entrance.

Young was to early dramatic TV what Lucille Ball was to comedy. She and her husband, Tom Lewis, partnered in this "Lewislor Productions," much as Lucy and Desi Arnaz did with Desilu. Ironically, The Loretta Young Show was filmed, at least in the early stages, at "D-P-I," which was Desilu, with many of the same crew members as I Love Lucy. Like the Arnazes, both the business and personal partnerships did not end happily, with the respective actresses, both strong, skilled and assertive, took over the reins of their shows.

Anthology shows were common in early television, but most were live, not filmed. The Loretta Young Show was filmed on a fairly tight budget, relative to its ambitious attempt to use...

Where are the guest hosts?
Most of season 3 Lorette was sick in bed and had guest hosts who always ended with "Good night, Loretta"
These gems starred Irene Dunne, Rosalind Russell, Barbara Stanwick, Van Johnson, Ricardo Montalban, Joan Fontain, Claudette Colbert, and a few others.
I would really like to see these, too. It's kind of funny, but none of these guest hosts were allowed to come in through her "special Door."

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