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Few actors from Hollywood’s golden age are more recognizable than Clark Gable, the beloved leading man who played Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind.

But his famous screen persona was at odds with his personal life.

Gable never acknowledged his first child, Judy Lewis, whom many believed was the product of an affair between Gable and actress Loretta Young. Gable’s son with wife Kay Williams, John Clark Gable, was the only child he ever acknowledged, and he was born after the actor died in November 1960.

For many years, rumors swirled that the married Gable and starlet Young had a tryst while making their 1935 film Call of the Wild that resulted in a child.

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But Gable and Young never acknowledged the rumors or addressed their veracity. Young spent the majority of her pregnancy in Europe and brought her 19-month-old baby home in 1937, announcing she had adopted a child. The truth about Lewis'