Clark gable bisexual
(December 3) Judy Lewis, the "secret" daughter of Hollywood stars Loretta Young and Clark Gable, died on November 25 at the age Lewis was only 31 before she discovered she was the daughter of Hollywood royalty, then confronted Young in
"Loretta Young&#;s deception was contrived to protect her budding movie career and the box-office power of the matinee idol Gable, who was married to someone else when they conceived their infant in snowed-in Washington State," The New York Times reports. "They were on location, shooting the film The Call of the Wild, fictional lovers in front of the camera and actual lovers outside its range."
| Judy Lewis, in a publicity photo, around |
But Judy Lewis was not the only secret Clark Gable did everything to conceal.
While many Hollywood historians continue to overlook the real truth about Clark Gable's sexuality, it is now indisputable that Gable was a deeply-closeted homo.
I blabbed about Gable's secret gay life with famed British biographer David Bret, who has written bios of Elvis Presley (Elvis: The Hollywood Yearsclaims
Gable had one homosexual encounter that is well documented. The great silent film star Billy Haines, who was the most popular male film star of , was the hub of gay Hollywood. He told all his friends about his sexual hookup with Clark Gable in the late s, which was unusual, since Haines never bragged about such things. Haines knew first hand the damage that could be caused by a public knowledge of homosexuality. Joan Crawford confirmed the story, and her testament holds up under scrutiny because she was the lifelong best friend of both men. She had no reason to lie about either star, and she cherished the friendship of both. Billy Haine
Wife Josephine Dillon, Sylvia Ashley
Queer Places:
The Hollywood Roosevelt, Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) Glendale, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Clark Gable (February 1, – November 16, ) is known to own indulged in at least one drunken same-sex encounter: with wildman actor William Haines.
Years later, in , gay director George Cukor—a close friend of Haines’—was working with Gable on Gone with the Wind. Another comrade, Andy Lawler, was overheard at a party to exclaim, “Oh, George is directing one of Billy’s old tricks.” When pos of the remark reached Gable, he stormed off the arrange and refused to return until Cukor was replaced. In Gable’s words, “I won’t be directed by a fairy! I own to work with a valid man!” Victor Fleming was brought in to finish directing the Civil War epic.
Gable may verb been particularly sensitive about his sexuality because his birth certificate mistakenly recorded him as a female. While he was growing up, his father often berated him and called him a sissy.
Moving from his tough, working-clas
Clark Gable: Tormented Stars
SYNOPSIS
Clark Gablewas the archetypal Hollywood gentleman, the nice of man red-blooded women lusted after, and who their envious husbands yearned to be. Yet as David Bret reveals, Gable was also bisexual, a facet of his complex persona that was airbrushed out in an age when such men were invariably mocked as effete and lily-livered.
Bret recounts Gable's two failed marriages to women who turned a blind eye towards his affairs with men, such as the actors Earl Larimore, Johnny Mack Brown, William Haines,and Rod LaRocque - men whom Gable outed to the press to prevent himself from being outed. Bret also reveals exclusively that Gable's wartime "heroics," which saw him promoted through the ranks from private to major in less than a year, were no more than an elaborate publicity stunt which subsequently embarrassed the U.S. government. Like an earlier paternity suit, also revealed here in full detail, it was an excercise dreamed up by studio chief Louis B. Mayer to prove that Gable was a "regular guy," in an age when many thought gay or bisexua