Consensual or not, her dad's DNA sure left more than a trace on Judy (Lewis) - the daughter he had with Loretta Young.
Some (tragic) story that is about Judy, I'm surprised there hasn't been a movie about it yet:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/judy-lewis-daughter-of-loretta-young-and-clark-gable-dies-at-76/2011/12/01/gIQAe85sHO_story.html_________________________________
Re the rape allegation, I'm not that skeptical, given that this (allegedly) happened in 1935, in Hollywood of all places and with a male superstar actor who was probably not accustomed to hearing a lot of "nos" from females. I don't think the concept of "date rape" had really sunk in back then yet, especially as it was de rigueur to spice up love scenes with a little violence and breaking of (female) wills:
(Don't blame me for Auntie Rand's - author of The Fountain Head - pronounced rape fantasies!)
Rape back then was mostly seen as the - in real life rather unlikely - "
They had never met before, the ugly villain pounced on her in the dark + then dragged her under the bushes ..."-scenario or as a wartime/armed conflict atrocity.
Wikipedia writes:
In 2015, Linda Lewis, the wife of Loretta Young's son Christopher, stated publicly that Young had realized at age 85 that Judy had been conceived in an act of date rape:[8]
"Young loved to watch Larry King Live, which is most likely what prompted her to first ask her friend, frequent house guest, and would-be biographer, Edward Funk, and then her daughter-in-law, Linda Lewis, to explain the term “date rape.” As Lewis recalled from her Jensen Beach, Florida, home this April, sitting next to her husband, Chris — Young's second born — and flanked by Young's Oscar and Golden Globe, it took tact to explain, in language that an 85-year-old could understand, what “date rape” meant. “I did the best I could to make her understand,” Lewis said. “You have to remember, this was a very proper lady.”
"When Lewis was finished describing the act, Young's response was a revelation: 'That's what happened between me and Clark.' "
Young had never before understood the particulars of that 1935 incident. She had not discussed this information before 1998. Young wished to keep the pregnancy secret from Twentieth Century Pictures, knowing they would try to pressure her to have an abortion; a devout Catholic, Young considered adultery and abortion to be mortal sins.[8] According to Linda Lewis, Young added that no consensual intimate contact had occurred between Gable and herself. Young had never previously disclosed the rape to anyone. Before learning of the concept of date rape, Young had believed it was a woman's job to fend off men's amorous advances and had perceived her inability to thwart Gable's attack as a moral failing on her part.[9] The family remained silent about the claim until Young (died 2000) and Lewis (died 2011) were both deceased.[8]And this is not to character-assassinate Clark Gable who I thought was great in
Gone With The Wind and
The Misfits (the two films with him I have the best memory of) and who more importantly, besides risking his life as a tail-gunner in a B-17 to fight Nazism at a time when neither his status nor his age (he was in his early 40ies come WWII) required him to do so (no one would have complained had he only taken some desk job with the USAAF, yet he actually flew sorties over Germany and one of his crew members even died during a
Luftwaffe attack), showed what you would today perhaps call, dare I say,
some woke spine, never mind how he was an ardent Republican all his life:
Also from Wikipedia:
According to Lennie Bluett, an extra in the film, Gable almost walked off the set when he discovered the studio facilities were segregated and signage posted "White" and "Colored".[55] Gable phoned the film's director Victor Fleming and told him, "If you don't get those signs down, you won't get your Rhett Butler." The signs were then taken down.[56] Gable tried to boycott the Gone with the Wind premiere in segregated Atlanta, because African American actors Hattie McDaniel and Butterfly McQueen were not permitted to attend. He reportedly only went after McDaniel pleaded with him to go.[57] They appeared in several more films, remaining life-long friends and he always attended her Hollywood parties.[58]
