Loretta young biography daughter
•
The story of Clark Gable and Loretta Young&#;s brief romance on the set of Call of the Wild and subsequent pregnancy is a sad one. Nowadays it is nothing at all, merely the typical day&#;s news, to read that an unwed celebrity is pregnant. Nobody fladdermöss an eye. In , it was exactly the opposite. Clark was married, albeit in name only, to Ria at the time. So not only was unwed Loretta pregnant, she was pregnant with a married man&#;s baby.
I probably get more emails and comments on the site, Facebook and Instagram about this Loretta Young situation than any other Gable topic. &#;He abandoned his child with Loretta&#; &#;He would never acknowledge his own child&#; &#;He turned his back on Loretta&#; Frankly it&#;s so tiring that I don&#;t often post pictures from Call of the Wild or Key to the City. I even delayed having these two films being Movie of the Week until now, because I knew featuring them meant the whole week would revolve around Loretta&#;s pregnancy and Clark&#;s &#;
•
Judy Lewis dies at 76; daughter of stars Loretta Young and Clark Gable
Judy Lewis, a psychotherapist and former actress who wrote a book about her complicated heritage as the illegitimate daughter of Hollywood legends Loretta Young and Clark Gable, has died. She was
A longtime resident of Los Angeles, Lewis died of cancer Friday in Gladwyne, Pa., according to her daughter, Maria Tinney Dagit.
Brought up in Bel-Air as Young’s adopted daughter, Lewis was an adult when she learned that the glamorous leading lady and Gable, the dashing star of “Gone With the Wind,” had conceived her during a brief affair in the s.
Fearful of scandal, Young hid the pregnancy and later fabricated the adoption. Gable never acknowledged that Lewis was his daughter, although he visited her once when she was 15, an experience that Lewis tenderly recounted in her memoir, “Uncommon Knowledge.”
Young was single and 22 and Gable married and 34 when they co-starred in “Call of the Wild” (), based on the
•
Judy Lewis
American actress, writer, producer, and therapist (–)
For the Irish painter, see Judith Lewis (painter).
Judy Lewis (born Judith Young; November 6, – November 25, ) was an American actress, writer, producer, and therapist. She was the secret biological daughter of actors Loretta Young and Clark Gable.
Early life
[edit]Lewis was born on November 6, , in Venice, California.[1] She was conceived while her birth parents, Loretta ung and Clark Gable,[1][2] were working on the film Call of the Wild. Gable was married at the time of Lewis's conception, and Young concealed her pregnancy to avoid scandal.[3] ung was aware that if Twentieth Century Pictures became aware of her pregnancy, the company might pressure her to have an abortion; a devout Catholic, ung considered abortion a mortal sin.[4] Weeks after her birth, Lewis was placed in an orphanage.[3] Lewis would spend the next 19 months in vario