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Judy Lewis was born and raised in Los Angeles, the love child of actors Loretta Young and Clark Gable. At the time of her birth, Gable was married, Young was unmarried. Young covered up the fact of her pregnancy, later announcing she had adopted the girl. Judy graduated from Marymount High School in 1953. She moved to New York and began her acting career, landing a small part on Ponds Theater (1953). She appeared on Broadway in Jean Kerr's "Mary, Mary", and became a featured performer on a number of daytime series, including The Secret Storm (1954) and General Hospital (1963). Judy had a successful career behind the ca
Judy Lewis was born and raised in Los Angeles, the love child of actors Loretta Young and Clark Gable. At the time of her birth, Gable was married, Young was unmarried. Young covered up the fact of her pregnancy, later announcing she had adopted the girl. Judy graduated from Marymount High School in 1953. She moved to New York and began her acting career, landing a small part on Ponds Theater (1953). She appeared on Broadway in Jean Kerr's "Mary, Mary", and became a featured performer on a number of daytime series, including The Secret Storm (1954) and General Hospital (1963). Judy had a successful career behind the camera, as well. She produced the daytime soap, Texas (1980), and also won a Writer's Guild award for her work on Search for Tomorrow (1951). In the 1980s, Judy went on to earn a bachelor's degree and then a master's degree in clinical psychology at Antioch University, Los Angeles. She took a few years off to write. Her first book, the autobiographical Uncommon Knowledge, about her parent's affair and her childhood, made her an acclaimed author. She began working in the field she always was fascinated with: psychology. She received her marriage and family - child counseling license (M.F.C.C) in the early 1990s. She now uses her talent, her love of introspection and her awareness in spirituality to help others. She has one daughter, Maria, and two grandsons, Michael and Gregory.
Judy Lewis was born Judy Young on November 6, 1935. Her parents were the actors Loretta Young and Clark Gable. Because of the morality clause in both their contracts and the fact that Clark Gable was married, Loretta Young brought Judy up as her adopted daughter. When Judy was four, her mother married Tom Lewis. Even though Judy carries his last name, he never adopted her. By the time Judy was nine, she had two half brothers, Christopher Lewis and Peter Charles Lewis. One day, when she was 15, she came home from school to find that Clark Gable was in her living room. She did not question it - her mother made 2 movies with him so they must be friends. She went to go get ready for a date, but instead talked to Clark Gable for hours, not knowing that he was her father. She would not know this fact until about 20 years later. At 17, she was engaged to Russell Hughes, a common man as her grandmother put it. Her family disliked him intensely. She was sent to school in New York for a year. Returning home, she expected to marry the man she loved but, a few years later, ended up marrying Joe Tinney, instead. Daughter Maria was born on November 16, 1959, a few days after her 24th birthday. Exactly a year later, biological father Clark Gable died. Joe had told Judy that Gable was her father before they married, but she did not believe it. She wanted to go to Gable's funeral, but she had no absolute proof that he was her father, so she did not. In the early 1970s, she and Tinney divorced. She moved back and forth a few times between California and New York before finally setting in Los Angeles. She returned to school to become a psychologist. In April of 1986, daughter Maria was married to Daniel Dagit and, in 1989, they had a son, Michael, and, in 1994, Gregory. Also, in 1994, she wrote a best-selling book about her life called "Uncommon Knowledge".
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