Judy lewis

Judy Lewis and her mom Loretta.

In 1960 shortly before he died, Clark Gable signed his last will and testament. In it he pointedly disavowed any living children. Thus he disowned and disinherited his only living child, a daughter named Judy that he fathered with Loretta Young in 1935. (Subsequently, a son,…

Jeanette MacDonald, Elissa Landi and Nelson Eddy on the set of Maytime (1937) Linda Christian and Tyrone Power on honeymoon, 1949 Linda Darnell and her daughter Loretta Young and Tyrone Power Publicity photo for Second Honeymoon (1937) Farley Granger visits Shelley Winters on the set of Frenchie (1951) Virginia Bruce and Dorothy Lamour Joel McCrea, Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda on the set of Banjo on My Knee (1936) Broderick Crawford, Gary Cooper and David Niven on the set of The Real…

Judy Lewis

Judy Lewis, a psychotherapist and former actress who wrote a book about her complicated heritage as the illegitimate daughter of Hollywood stars Loretta Young and Clark Gable, died of cancer Nov. 25 i...

Actress. The daughter of legendary actor Clark Gable and actress Loretta Young, she would not know of her parentage until later in life. She was raised by Young as her adopted daughter because her parents feared their careers would be destroyed by scandal (Gable was married and Young, a devout Catholic, could not...

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Judy Lewis died a few weeks ago at the age of 76. Her death prompts a question I’ll get to in a moment. You probably never heard of Judy L...