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Loretta Young's secret

Actress posthumously admits Clark Gable fathered her child

LOS ANGELES - Loretta Young took the secret to her grave.

Now in a posthumous biography, the Academy Award winner - who crafted an image of purity on and off the screen - admits publicly for the first time that she gave birth to a child as the result of a brief fling in 1935 with her leading man, Clark Gable.

Because Young was unmarried at the time, her pregnancy was kept secret, and the baby girl was placed in an orphanage and later "adopted" by the actress, though no adoption papers were ever filed.

Hollywood had long speculated that Young and Gable were the girl's natural parents. But Young, who had earned a reputation as being deeply religious, never commented on the rumors in her lifetime - even when daughter Judy Lewis wrote a 1994 book declaring that Gable was her father. Young's book of memoirs, "The Things I Had to Learn," published in 1961, never discussed the union.

Now, "Forever Young," by Joan Webster Anderson, helps to clarify the long-ago tryst. The author interviewed Young at he

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Clark Gable

American actor (1901–1960)

William Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960) was an American film actor. Often referred to as the "King of Hollywood",^[2] he had roles in more than 60 films in a variety of genres during a career that lasted 37 years, for three decades of which he was a leading man. He was named the seventh greatest male movie star of classic American cinema by the American Film Institute.^[3]

Gable won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the romantic comedy, It Happened One Night (1934). He was further Oscar-nominated for his roles as Fletcher Christian in the drama Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), and Rhett Butler in the historical romance drama Gone with the Wind (1939). He received Golden Globe Award nominations for his comedic roles in Teacher's Pet (1958), and But Not for Me (1959). He also starred in Call of the Wild (1935), Key to the City (1950), and Mogambo (1953). His final on-screen role was as an aging cowboy in The Misfits (1961).

Gable was one of the most consis

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Some time after Sweetheartswas published in 1994, I did a joint book signing with Judy Lewis, the illegitimate daughter of Loretta Young and Clark Gable, at the Beverly Hills Woman’s Club. Her story was poignantly told in her autobiography, Uncommon Knowledge. In a nutshell, this is Judy’s story as noted in Publisher’s Weekly, ©1994:

Born in 1935, Lewis was a mother herself when she learned what her friends and acquaintances already knew–that she was the offspring of a single mother and a married father. Her parents were Loretta Young and Clark Gable. Young, fearing that her daughter’s birth would ruin two movie careers, staged an adoption to cover up what she regarded as her most grievous mortal sin. In this absorbing memoir Lewis writes without self-pity of her unfulfilled relationship with both parents; she met Gable only once, when she was 15; her account of that event is the book’s most poignant scene, because she was unaware that he was her father. She is frank about her mother’s “imperfections and sometimes difficult personal