Loretta Young made her name in Classic Hollywood as a great beauty — and for the cover-up of one of the industry’s greatest scandals: concealing a child, born out of wedlock, with Clark Gable, one of the era’s biggest stars. It wasn’t until recently that even Young learned the right words for what she’d been hiding for decades.

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by Anonymousreply 25February 24, 2019 3:18 AM

Mr. Clark Gable was a know escort! Word on the back lot in the days gone-by, was that Mr Clark Gable specialty was the "Sans Denture Experience"! I would have paid extra for that.

by Anonymousreply 1October 29, 2018 7:34 PM

[quote]It wasn’t until recently that even Young learned the right words for what she’d been hiding for decades.

How do you learn something when you've been dead for 20 years?

by Anonymousreply 2October 29, 2018 7:50 PM

He didn’t rape Loretta...that was her Catholic guilt talking. Because she liked the dick.

by Anonymousreply 3October 29, 2018 8:01 PM

She spent her life atoning with a swear jar.

by Anonymousreply 4October 29, 2018 8:04 PM

William Haines - allegedly: I wasn't there - raped a very young and sort of hustler-ish Clark Gable in the mens room at an awards dinner when Haines was a big star and Gable was not. And George Cukor knew about it because Haines was a sister and thus was fired as director of GWTW when Gable was chosen to play Rhett Butler.

Loretta liked what Clark had to offer and got a baby named Judy Lewis as a consequence (who she claimed was adopted) and spent her life atoning for her sin. Judy (r) is seen below with Mom and Dad.

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by Anonymousreply 5October 29, 2018 8:26 PM

nevermind , R5 beat me to it

by Anonymousreply 6October 29, 2018 8:27 PM

Except that the link doesn't work. Here's Judy [italic]sans[/italic] Mom and Dad. Note the resemblance.

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by Anonymousreply 7October 29, 2018 8:29 PM

Puh-lease. Loretta fucked Gable from here to Sheboygan. Date rape my ass.

by Anonymousreply 8October 29, 2018 8:36 PM

Was Clark really a tinymeat, as rumored?

by Anonymousreply 9October 29, 2018 8:43 PM

For years, film scholars have nattered on about the glow those to have in an otherwise unremarkable film, said it was clear that those two were in love.

Which doesn't mean that Gable didn't force himself on Young. Even if she was in love with him, it's possible that she wasn't willing to fuck a married man while on location because of her Catholic guilt, and Gable wasn't taking "no" for an answer. Which I admit is incredibly unlikely considering how most actors behave, but someone had to put the possibility out there.

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by Anonymousreply 10October 29, 2018 10:23 PM

I don't get why Gable was such a draw back then. He had huge ears and chronic halitosis... and not much of a waist and not much definition. Doesn't do a thing for me. Yet Marilyn and Joan and Carole and Loretta were all agog ...

by Anonymousreply 13October 29, 2018 11:11 PM

Haines didn't rape Gable.

Gable allowed Haines to blow him to further his career. Haines was a major star at Metro at the time. And yes, Cukor knew about it.

by Anonymousreply 14October 29, 2018 11:44 PM

clarks last wife said of him, one less inch and he would be the queen of hollywood instead of king. He engaged in the occasional blow job when first starting out to get ahead in the film business Had a long time on and off fling with Joan Crawford. Both had an abhorance with sitting in a bathtub and taking baths as they didnt want to sit in their own shit I guess. Gable had terrible problem with hemorroids later in life and I think had anal sex phobia.

Monroe was attracted to the king of hollywood history Gable presented not necessairly the flesh and blood in my opinion.

Gable was no prize in my book. Had great taste in cars however

by Anonymousreply 15October 30, 2018 5:42 AM

There is no question that Clark Gable was the biological father of Judy Lewis, the resemblance was uncanny. She basically looked like a female version of Gable.

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by Anonymousreply 16October 30, 2018 5:45 AM

"She basically looked like a female version of Gable. "

It's so sad when girls with beautiful mothers come out looking like their fathers!

Gable wasn't good-looking at all, but he has so much charm, charisma, and testosterone, that he was terribly attractive anyway. But no girl should have had to look like him, especially when she could have looked like this...

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by Anonymousreply 17October 30, 2018 4:27 PM

Wasn't Loretta's son a homosexual?

by Anonymousreply 18October 31, 2018 2:50 PM

In R16 I'm seeing more June Lockhart.

Is there something someone wants to say?

by Anonymousreply 20February 23, 2019 9:28 PM

Tastes change. Gable was very handsome, masculine and swarthy. The halitosis thing was overblown. William Haines could not possibly have raped Gable. Loretta Young was consumed with Catholic guilt. Gable's big ears were the human touch that gave his beauty vulnerability and thus made him even more appealing to women. The star-boys of today can't hold a candle to the real man vibe Gable gave off.

by Anonymousreply 21February 23, 2019 9:46 PM

Gable had charisma. Young was either thinking she was smart (married man will be discreet and it won't go anywhere) or deluded (he'll want me), but either way, she wanted to shkeoff some of that mackerel snapping.

by Anonymousreply 22February 24, 2019 2:56 AM

Did you see Clark Gable III just died in Dallas? What's the story?

by Anonymousreply 23February 24, 2019 3:03 AM

Here's the story about Gable's grandson.

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by Anonymousreply 24February 24, 2019 3:18 AM

Yes, I tried to post it with a link but DL was being wonky.

I thought his father (ie Clark Gable's son) also died young but nope, he's still alive.

by Anonymousreply 25February 24, 2019 3:18 AM

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