Clark Gable "date raped" Loretta Young and made her pregnant

Did he bite her lip?

That is all about covering up the shame that she hungered for his cock.

Clark Gable was no prize. I tend to believe this. But it still doesn't excuse the shitty way she treated her daughter with Gable.

He also hit someone with a car and killed them. Loretta was a good Catholic girl. I 'll beg she fuck like a French whore.

Wow.

It's like a dam has burst and people are speaking the unspeakable.

I Disagree with the article. It wasn't Hollywood's biggest scandal by any stretch. I say Marilyn's death. What say you?

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What did she do to her daughter, R3?

She made her become a soap opera producer. Fate worse than death.

Loretta had some big bazookas

She was impossibly cute as a flapper too.

Read this today and was all MARY!

Clark looks cute in that film that Loretta took. He looks casual, a bit like Patrick Dempsey.

That's been debunked, R4.

Isn't it true Loretta that you are lying NOW, just as you were lying THEN!?

Now wait, I remember reading about this yrs ago and how she was madly in love with him.. But now she was date raped? WTF..

Why did you post a picture of Louise Brooks, R10?

The whole Luke and Laura rape storyline was loosley based on Gable and Young's romanance, R14.

Here's a Young flapper pic..

I have my doubts. Makes me wonder if this was another attempt by Loretta to minimize her responsibility in the entire affair & its cosequences.

I believe it. Sounds like she was brainwashed by gender roles and catholicism into believing that it was somehow her fault.

Bullshit. Everyone knows Loretta was a huge slut (she even tried to fuck David Bowie once but he rejected her menopausal pussy).

I read her daughter, Judy's, book years ago. According to Judy, Loretta told her it was an affair. Judy said Loretta told her she lost her feelings for Gable when she told him she was pregnant and he just looked at her and said "what are you going to do about it?"

Okay, well, you have to understand that Anne Helen Petersen is part of the younger crowd of Old Hollywood fans who think they have to revise everything that ever happened in Old Hollywood to make it their own. They won't say that straight out, but you see people like her on movie forums, blogs, Tumblr, etc. saying things like "old films wouldn't even BE popular if it wasn't for OUR GENERATION."

So they take Old Hollywood stuff and revamp it into something very modern and SJW-ish, and people retweet about how this 85-year-old scandal is "relevant and urgent." As others pointed out, no, this was never even close to Hollywood's "biggest scandal" in the first place, let alone being "urgent."

If you read the article, you'll see that the entire proof of this date rape is tenuous at best: Young, then 85 years old, saw the term "date rape" on Larry King's show and her daughter-in-law explained what it was. Young reportedly said, "That’s what happened between me and Clark.”

That's it.

Petersen then talks about how she interviewed people for, like, a totally long time, you guys, it was totes hard work, but that's okay because it's super like relevant and stuff, because Bill Cosby.

More importantly, what Petersen concludes by that singular anecdote is that it's proof that Young (and every other woman of the era) just didn't know how to express herself truthfully because society and Hollywood oppressed her, and now we have to go back and change the definitions and context of EVERYTHING Loretta Young ever said, assuming that all her words were skewed because sexism forced her to be imprecise with her own language.

Essentially, this is cultural studies bullshit wrapped up in a bunch of Millennial Buzzfeed-style writing techniques. There's some good stuff in there that's basically plain old research, but the thing about how her affair with Clark was always rape and Loretta Young just didn't realize it, so now we enlightened folks in 2015 have to set her own story straight for her, is junk.

Oh, and if you read the comments on the article, you'll see that the daughter-in-law perpetuating this story about how it was really date rape all along is married to Christopher Young, Loretta's son, who was convicted of child molestation and child pornography in 1973. He was soliciting kids as young as six years old.

Now he and his wife want us to believe that they have this major new information and just want to get it out there to protect women who are never believed when they say they've been attacked.

I'm certain Christopher Young and his wife Linda Lewis are looking for publicity. They must have a book about Loretta coming out soon.

*Christopher Lewis, not Young, sorry.

Speaking of young Loretta Young - she won the original wet tee shirt contest:

Loretta Young didn't want to fuck Gable? LOL, such fucking bs. I posted earlier that buzzfeed has as much credibility as CDAN, which is ZERO. It's just clickbait bs.

R23's info persuades me all is not what it seems here. But then that's me, I just get kind of suspicious of convicted child sex offenders.

They said he had terrible breath.

This is why she wrote "Coal Miner's Daughter."

Gable didn't provide any financial support for the baby apparently.

[R22] Thanks for putting into words exactly what I was thinking. The article doesn't constitute credible research. And Gable had no history of forcing himself on women - very much the other way around.