Loretta Young’s family claims she was raped by Clark Gable

Loretta Young was one of the most beautiful actresses of all time, but according to her family, she left behind a terrible secret when she died.

In 1935, Young worked on The Call of the Wild with Clark Gable, who was married for the second time to Maria “Ria” Franklin Prentiss Lucas Langham.

The two grew close during filming and shortly after filming was completed, Young discovered she was pregnant.

The actress went to great lengths to cover it up.

Before her death, the paternity of her daughter Judy became public, but the true circumstances of the pregnancy have only now come to light.

According to Young’s daughter-in-law Linda Lewis, the actress was a devout Catholic with a strong sense of right and wrong.

Mrs. Lewis claimed that the pregnancy was the result of a rape by Clark Gable.

She told Buzzfeed that the revelation came to her while watching an episode of Larry King Live where the topic was discussed.

She said Young, who was 85 at the time, asked Lewis to explain to her what “date rape” meant.

Upon hearing her answer, Young replied, “That’s what happened between me and Clark.”

Lewis told Buzzfeed she was horrified, but added Young’s priority was to protect Judy.

The same fear kept the family quiet even after Judy’s death in 2011 at the age of 78.

Nevertheless, Ms. Lewis and her husband Chris, the son of Loretta Young and her second husband Tom, decided to go public.

“Judy is not here to be hurt by this,” Ms Lewis told Buzzfeed.

“And that’s what Loretta really wanted to avoid – because who doesn’t want to be conceived in love?”

Loretta Young was considered one of Hollywood’s biggest stars when she met Gable in 1935.

Lewis said Young tended to “fall a little bit in love with her co-stars,” and she actually spent time on set flirting with Gable.

However, she remained a strict Catholic who was deeply hurt by her divorce from her first husband.

It is believed that she never gave in to the advances of her co-stars.

That changed on the train, Lewis says, where Gable and Young were given separate compartments.

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

What followed was one of the most elaborate cover-ups in Hollywood history.

Young shared the news of Judy’s birth with Gable in a telegram that read: “BEAUTIFUL BLUE EYED BLONDE GIRL BORN THIS MORNING AT 8:15 A.M.”

Gable did not appear on the birth certificate and never really had anything to do with Judy’s life.

Despite her efforts to keep the secret, Young told her daughter the truth when she was 23. By that time, Gable had died at the age of 59, ten days after a heart attack.

However, Judy never learned the true circumstances of her conception – a fact that Mrs Lewis was willing to talk about after a series of high-profile rape cases in the past.

“I realized this happens almost every day,” she told Buzzfeed.

“All these rapes, and the men just keep getting away with it.”