The Farmer's Daughter
1947
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The Call of the Wild, Loretta Young, Clark Gable, 1935. It was in 1998 — in the wake of Judy’s memoir — that Young, by then in her eighties, first heard the term “date rape” on Larry King Live , at home in Palm Springs with Ed Funk.
Young and Clark Gable were the romantic leads of the 1935 Twentieth Century Pictures film The Call of the Wild. Young was then 22 years old; Gable was 34 and married to Maria “Ria” Langham. During filming, Young became pregnant by Gable. Young did not want to damage her career or Gable's.
Nov. 20 -- Before she died in August of ovarian cancer, Oscar-winning actress Loretta Young admitted to having an affair with co-star Clark Gable — and that her “ adopted ” daughter, Judy Lewis, was actually her own daughter with Gable.
Judy Lewis (born Judith Young; November 6, 1935 – November 25, 2011) was an American actress, writer, producer, and therapist. She was the secret biological daughter of actors Loretta Young and Clark Gable.
Raised to believe she was the adopted daughter of movie star Loretta Young, the late actor didn't learn until she was an adult that she was actually her mother's love child with Clark Gable, a man Lewis met just once.
Loretta Young’s deception was contrived to protect her budding movie career and the box-office power of the matinee idol Gable, who was married to someone else when they conceived their child...
In 1935, the single (and more Catholic than the pope) Loretta Young, 22, became pregnant with a child fathered by the married (to second wife Ria Langham) 34-year-old Clark Gable. The actors had...
