People

By Guy D. Garcia

She seemed to glide across the floor, a vision of serene stylishness floating through a succession of spacious rooms. Now, 23 years after retiring, Loretta Young is returning to the limelight with the same graciousness that marked the opening sequence of her acclaimed television series, The Loretta Young Show. She is on location in Canada to film Christmas Eve, an NBC-TV movie scheduled to air in December, about an eccentric rich woman who goes to extraordinary lengths to reunite her family for Christmas. What finally brought Young back to the camera at age 73? "Maybe I was getting bored," she suggests, adding, "This is the kind of story I used to do on The Loretta Young Show. I love the character." But not the schedule. "When we reached 6 on the first day, I said good-night, but the director told me we weren't finished. I lost the battle, but I won the war." Filming has gone smoothly ; since the crew agreed to shoot Young's scenes during more civilized hours.