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Clark Gable, Loretta Young and Their Daughter Judy Lewis
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 bats an eye. In 1935, 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…
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Judy Lewis, 1935-2011
Judy Lewis, the daughter of Clark Gable, and Loretta Young, died Friday, November 25, of cancer in Pennslyvania. Read the New York Times article on her death here. Judy was concieved during the freezing Washington location shoot for Call of the Wild. Loretta maintained that there had not been a big love affair between her and Clark, just that they were mutually attracted to each other and one night her “iron will slipped.” Loretta realized she was pregnant during the filming of her next picture, The Crusades, directed by Cecil B. DeMille. This was crushing news. Not only did she feel ashamed by her actions, she had violated the morals…
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Memorial Day
Happy Memorial Day to all… There is a new article about Judy Lewis in the Article Archive and several new pictures in the gallery that are very rare.