Loretta Young Home Movie Collection, 1940-circa 1960s

Scope and Content Note

This collection consists of four 16 mm color reels of Loretta Young and family's home movies. Shot from approximately 1940 to the early 1960s the collection contains amateur footage of Loretta Young, her husband Tom Lewis (married from 1940 to 1969) and children including the couple's sons Christopher and Peter Lewis, and Judy Lewis, her daughter with Clark Gable.

Footage in this collection includes scenes from Young and Lewis's wedding and honeymoon in Mexico in 1940; Judy Lewis's wedding to Joe Tinney in 1958 and the couple's wedding reception at Young's estate; as well as footage from various family vacations to Hawaii and Lake Arrowhead. The overall visual quality of these home movies is very good with minor damage to the footage from 1940 on the first reel.