Elizabeth Young (September 3, 1913 – March 2, 2007) was an American actress. She appeared in four movies of the mid-1930s: ''

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'' (1933), '' Queen Christina'' (1933), '' There's Always Tomorrow'' (1934), and ''

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'' (1935). Young was the daughter of a judge, and was educated at

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in New York City. She first acted on

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, then in Hollywood. During World War II, Young was active in the

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. Young was the first wife of writer-director-producer

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, with whom she had a son, Eric. She was next married to publisher

Eugene Reynal Eugene St. Rose Reynal (March 31, 1902 – March 20, 1968) was an American publisher who founded Blue Ribbon Books of Garden City, New York, and Reynal & Hitchcock (with Curtice Hitchcock) of New York City in 1933. From 1938 to 1946, Reynal wa ...

; they divorced in 1946. In 1948, Young wed Hugh Walker, a furniture manufacturer. Young's final husband was Henry Darbee, a Connecticut architect, whom she married in 1971.

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