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Howard Strickling, the manager of Publicity for MGM, was called Clark Gables fixer by author E.J. Fleming. He earned that title for his actions on behalf of Gable over the decades. In 1937 he orchestrated the adoption of Gables illegitimate daughter, Judy, by Loretta…

Judy Lewis - the secret love child of Hollywood stars Clark Gable and Loretta Young, who conceived her on the set of The Call of the Wild in the 1930s - has died of cancer aged 76.

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.

Judy Lewis and her mom Loretta.

Judy Lewis

Loretta Young and daughter Judy Lewis &pockebucket.com's

The product of the actors' "Call of the Wild" affair, Lewis enjoyed a career as an actress and producer before becoming a psychotherapist.

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Clark Gable and his last wife, Kay, in 1960. He died later that year shortly before she gave birth to his son, John Clark Gable

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...