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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It may be excused by the era they lived in and she did the right thing in keeping her,  but Loretta Young raising the baby she had with Clark Gable and pretending she adopted her. I remember seeing something about the daughter having a hard life because of the deception. 
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Clark Gable raped Loretta Young. Young had no concept of date rape and blamed herself. Very late in her life she learned what it was and stated that’s what had happened to her. She was Catholic and desperately wanted to keep her baby. Loretta actually did place her baby in the orphanage and legally adopted her around 18 months of age. The daughter didn’t learn the truth until young adulthood, and there was a period of estrangement. I think it’s not fair to place Loretta Young in the celebrity bad parent hall of fame. That would be Clark Gable. Loretta did everything she could do in that time to love, provide for, and protect her daughter.

My grandmother was raped about five years after Loretta. She told no one but a friend (who helped her clean up and kept her at her house for a few days) until she told me shortly before her death. [i]I should never have let him get me alone[/i]. That’s the phrase she repeated over and over as she told me the story. My grandmother was a very strong woman and wasn’t known to take blame very often. Even though we live with rape culture, I don’t think we understand how deeply ingrained the sense of female culpability for rape was.[/quote]

I am sad to hear what happened w/your Grandmother PP. 💔
How very tragic…..

I agree the parenting onus is on Clark Gable vs. Loretta Young on this.
I think Loretta did the best she could given the unfortunate circumstances at the time.

If she had revealed the truth her career would have been toast as Hollyweird at the time was very unforgiving during that time.

Clark could, should have acknowledged his daughter more - according to her he only saw her one time - it wasn’t fair to her that he shut her out the way he did. [/quote]
Thanks for your kind words. I'm glad my grandmother was able to tell me, and I could tell her that it was NOT her fault. She found peace with it, after carrying that guilt and shame for more than 75 years.

Loretta was less concerned with her career than she was first that if the studio found out she was pregnant they would try to force her to have an abortion, and second, that her daughter would suffer being labeled a bastard without the adoption ruse. I suspect Judy Lewis (daughter) would not have been better off having Gable in her life, but all of the negativity is really down to him being a rapist, and the culture of the time not even having words for Loretta to put that to. Anyway, for obvious reasons, this one struck a chord with me. [/quote]

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