Loretta Young

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15 Key-book portraits of Loretta Young by George Hurrell --- Wikipedia

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4 images from the film "Private Number" (1936) --- IMDb



4 images from "Ramona" (1936) --- IMDb --- Wikipedia

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Photoplay November 1930:

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Photoplay January 1937:

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Credit to schreibikus

I believe that I recall reading, or once hearing in a commentary prior to the start of watching one of her movies that prior to her acting career Loretta Young had entered the sisterhood of becoming a nun but never competed her vows ... and that she never married or wished to take a husband and remained celibate her entire life.
After seeing her engaged in some hot romantic kissing scenes with some sexy and good-looking men of the time (what they called/considered love scenes back in those days), that must have taken some doing and a great amount of willpower on her part to remain celibate!
Such a waste of some marvelous equipment!

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Originally Posted by cuzzyman927;

I believe that I recall reading, or once hearing in a commentary prior to the start of watching one of her movies that prior to her acting career Loretta Young had entered the sisterhood of becoming a nun but never competed her vows ... and that she never married or wished to take a husband and remained celibate her entire life.
After seeing her engaged in some hot romantic kissing scenes with some sexy and good-looking men of the time (what they called/considered love scenes back in those days), that must have taken some doing and a great amount of willpower on her part to remain celibate!
Such a waste of some marvelous equipment!

Perhaps you have some one else in mind?
Here's a passage from her Wiki bio:

"Young was married to actor Grant Withers from 1930 to 1931. After that she was involved in affairs with Spencer Tracy and Clark Gable and in 1935 had Gable's child, a daughter. She married producer Tom Lewis in 1940 and they divorced very bitterly in the mid 1960s. Lewis died in 1988. They had two sons, Peter Lewis (of the legendary San Francisco rock band Moby Grape), and Christopher Lewis, a film director.
She married fashion designer Jean Louis in 1993. Louis died in 1997.

Clark Gable affair

In 1935, Young had an affair with a then-married Clark Gable while on location for The Call of the Wild. During their relationship, Young became pregnant. Due to the moral codes placed on the film industry, Young covered up her pregnancy in order to avoid damaging her career (as well as Gable's). When she began to show she went on a "vacation" to England. Several months later she returned to California. Shortly before the birth she gave an interview stating the reason for her long movie absence was because of a condition she had had since childhood.

Loretta Young gave birth to Judith Young on November 6, 1935, in a house she and her mother owned in Venice, California. Three weeks later, she returned to movie-making. After several months of living in the house in Venice, Judy was transferred to St. Elizabeth's, an orphanage outside Los Angeles. When she was 19 months old, her grandmother picked her up and Young announced to gossip columnist Louella Parsons that she had adopted the infant. The child was raised as "Judy Lewis",[10] taking the last name of Young's second husband, producer Tom Lewis.

According to Lewis' autobiography Uncommon Knowledge, she was made fun of because of the ears that she received from her father, Clark Gable. She states that, at seven, she had an operation to "pin back" her large ears and that her mother always had her wearing bonnets as a child. Over the years, she had heard rumors that Clark Gable was her biological father. In 1958, Lewis' future husband Joseph Tinney told her "everybody" knew that Gable was her father. The only time she remembered Gable visiting Lewis was once at her home when she was a teenager; she had no idea he was her biological father. Several years later, he turned up at The Loretta Young Show after Young had been in hospital for several months. Lewis was an assistant and was right behind her mother when she noticed Gable.

Several years later, after becoming a mother herself, Lewis finally confronted her mother. After promptly vomiting, Young admitted her true parentage, stating that she was "just a walking mortal sin". "

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