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Clark Gable Was Rumored To Have ‘Date-Raped’ Loretta Young, She Gave Birth To His Baby, And Kept It A Secret

Young, terrified of going to Hell and with warnings from the family priest ringing in her ears, would flirt but never succumb to advances from her co-stars.

Secret: Loretta Young is pictured with Judy Lewis in 1944, who did not know for years who her father was (DailyMail)

That, however, was about to change. On the train back to Los Angeles from Seattle, the cast was, as Lewis tells it, given separate compartments.

Somewhere between Seattle and Los Angeles, Gable entered her compartment and, a month later, a humiliated Young discovered she was pregnant.

Next came one of the most elaborate cover-ups in Hollywood history, with Young going to extraordinary lengths to keep her condition a secret.

Revelation: Young, pictured in 1986, told her daughter the truth of her father’s identity when she was 23 but never spoke about the circumstances of her conception and was determined to ensure she never found out (DailyMail)

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