URBAN LEGEND: DID LORETTA YOUNG HAVE A LOVE CHILD OUT OF WEDLOCK TO FELLOW ACTOR CLARK GABLE?
ANSWER: YES!
Judy Lewis (1935-2011) was the out of wedlock offspring of screen legends Loretta Young and Clark Gable. At the time of her birth, Gable was married, Young was unmarried. Young covered up the fact of her pregnancy, later announcing she had adopted the girl. Judy graduated from Marymount High School in 1953. She moved to New York and began her acting career, landing a small part on Ponds Theater (1953). She appeared on Broadway in Jean Kerr's "Mary, Mary", and became a featured performer on a number of daytime series, including The Secret Storm (1954) and General Hospital (1963). Judy had a successful career behind the camera, as well. It took her eight years, when she was 31 and appearing on the soap opera “The Secret Storm,” to confront her mother. Young, after throwing up in the bathroom, told her that Gable indeed was her father. Loretta then made Judy keep the truth secret until 1994 when she wrote a book exposing the truth. Loretta Young refused to talk to her daughter for three years until 1997. Loretta died in 2000...
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