Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Uncommon Knowledge by Judy Lewis Uncommon Knowledge by Judy Lewis. Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property. What can I do to prevent this in the future? If you are on a personal connection, like at home, you can run an anti-virus scan on your device to make sure it is not infected with malware. If you are at an office or shared network, you can ask the network administrator to run a scan across the network looking for misconfigured or infected devices. Another way to prevent getting this page in the future is to use Privacy Pass. You may need to download version 2.0 now from the Chrome Web Store. Cloudflare Ray ID: 661b8c442cb02b1a • Your IP : 116.202.236.252 • Performance & security by Cloudflare. Uncommon Knowledge by Judy Lewis. Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property. What can I do to prevent this in the future? If you are on a personal connection, like at home, you can run an anti-virus scan on your device to make sure it is not infected with malware. If you are at an office or shared network, you can ask the network administrator to run a scan across the network looking for misconfigured or infected devices. Another way to prevent getting this page in the future is to use Privacy Pass. You may need to download version 2.0 now from the Chrome Web Store. Cloudflare Ray ID: 661b8c43e93cc27c • Your IP : 116.202.236.252 • Performance & security by Cloudflare. UNCOMMON KNOWLEDGE. For 23 years Judy Lewis lived as the adopted daughter of Loretta Young. Now in her mid-50s, she reveals that she is the natural child of Young and Clark Gable. Young and Gable became lovers in 1935 while costarring in Call of the Wild. Gable was married and Young divorced, though still in her early twenties. When Young and her mother told Gable that she was pregnant, he offered little help. To understand the bizarre nature of what ensued, one must know that Loretta Young's family had a history of drinking fathers who abandoned their families. The actress and her mother saw men as no good. Loretta, a childhood convert to Catholicism, viewed God himself as her absent father. Pregnant, she would have to live with her ""mortal sin"" -- abortion was no option. While filming The Crusades for Cecil B. De Mille, Young kept her fetus hidden under secret straps. Judy Lewis was born at home, just as the milkman arrived, and Loretta covered her mouth to silence her, apparently at her first breath, so that he wouldn't hear. Lewis, a therapist and family counselor, makes much of her early traumas with Loretta. Loretta wore a mask of virtue, would never play an immoral person on screen, and to this day will not publicly admit the truth about Gable. Highlights include Judy's long meeting with Gable when she was 15, not knowing he was her father; her fiancÉ's telling her of her parentage, which all Hollywood seemed to know; Judy's big showdown in her mid-30s with a still evasive Loretta; and her confrontation with her own daughter about Gable. Loretta's posture of morality is placed in the context of her own abandonment as a child, her dread of censure by the Catholic Legion of Decency, and her fear of being blacklisted under the film industry's Hayes Code. Gripping throughout. Secret Children of Hollywood: Clark Gable’s Daughter Dies. Judy Lewis didn’t find out she was the secret daughter of two Hollywood stars until she was 31 years old. Lewis only learned the truth when she had an identity crisis just before marriage and her fiancé blurted out, “It’s common knowledge, Judy,” he said. “Your father is Clark Gable.” Lewis, a former soap opera star, died Nov. 25 at the age of 76 in Pennsylvania, leaving behind a sordid tale of family deception – one that is all too common in Hollywood. Her mother was Loretta Young, a budding actress, who told Lewis she was adopted after getting pregnant in a short-lived affair with Gable, the rogue romantic lead with the trademark big ears in “Gone With the Wind.” For years, her mother reportedly hid Lewis’ Gable-like ears under a hat and had them surgically clipped at the age of 7 to quell rumors about her parentage. According to her obituary today in The New York Times, Lewis spent the first 19 months of her life being hidden away in orphanages so her mother could protect her career from the shame of pregnancy. Though Lewis was a child of the 1930s and 1940s, when extramarital affairs and out-of-wedlock pregnancies were scandalous, her life story echoes those of other Hollywood celebrities who were or had secret babies. Actor Jack Nicholson learned late in life that he had been raised by his grandmother – told that she was his mother and that the woman he believed was his sister, was actually his biological mother. The “As Good as It Gets” star said he never learned of his parentage until he became famous and both his grandmother and mother were dead. An expose in Time magazine revealed his past. The awakening for Lewis was in 1958, when she was engaged to Joe Tinney, whom she later married and divorced. According to her book, she told him, “I can’t marry you. I don’t know anything about myself.” Even in modern times, Hollywood has had its baby daddy scandals. Just this year, Arnold Schwarzenegger revealed that he had fathered a love child with his Guatemalan housekeeper and that he had supported the boy for 10 years. His 25-year marriage to Maria Shriver dissolved over the revelation. Others, like revered comedian Bill Cosby – and even Apple founder Steve Jobs – finally fessed up to indiscretions that led to hushed-up pregnancies. “It’s a fascinating story,” said Dorree Lynn, a clinical psychologist from Washington, D.C., who specializes in sex, intimacy and marriage and hosts “My Generation,” a relationship segment for AARP. “In some ways, it’s no different than anyone finding out a devastating secret about their parents, except that it’s Hollywood and even more so,” she said. “If you were to suddenly find out your parents were not your parents, you would have an identity crisis. But in Hollywood, everything is played out on a grand scale. “It’s all played out in the public eye,” she said. “You have multiple layers of truth and multiple layers of exposure.” Times have, indeed, changed. Premarital sex and even having a child before marriage is commonplace. “We accept it, even from the Huxtables,” said Lynn. “Even in the case of Bill Cosby, the perfect father and role model. He comes out of the closet with an out-of- wedlock child.” Just this week, Kourtney Kardashian announced her second pregnancy with boyfriend Scott Disick. Angelina Jolie tromps around the world with three biological children with Brad Pitt. Neither couple is married. “It’s a little different in the age of Twitter and Facebook for very much to remain secret,” said Lynn. “News and scandal has shifted the way Americans view life. But even the Arnold [Schwarzenegger] deal is a bit of a shock because it is so extreme. We don’t even really know if it was such a major secret.” Today, some Hollywood women, like “Mad Men” actress January Jones, flagrantly have babies and refuse to identify their fathers. In the case of Loretta Young, then 22, and Clark Gable, then 34, they had an affair in 1935, while in Washington state filming, “The Call of the Wild.” He was married to someone else at the time. Young, a Roman Catholic, went to Europe to wait out her pregnancy, then returned to the United States and put Lewis in a San Francisco orphanage. She later married radio producer Tom Lewis and told her daughter she had been adopted, admitting no biological relation to her. When confronted in 1966, Young told her daughter the truth. Lewis went public with her story in her 1994 memoir, “Uncommon Knowledge,” and after that her mother would not talk to her for three years. Lewis said in an interview at the time: “It was very difficult for me as a little girl not to be accepted or acknowledged by my mother, who, to this day, will not publicly acknowledge that I am her biological child,” according to The New York Times. In Young’s memoir, “Forever Young,” she eventually admitted Lewis was her daughter, but refused to allow the book to be published until after her death, which was in 2000. Young explained that she and Gable would have lost their careers in Hollywood, if the scandal had ever become public. Other actors like Charlie Chaplin and Ingrid Bergman had been banned from acting in the United States when it was revealed they had extramarital affairs, though both ultimately salvaged their star status. Gable and Young’s daughter Lewis worked as a soap actress for years before going back to school at age 40. She went on to become a child psychologist and to specialize in foster care and marriage therapy – a career choice that, “I have no question … was in some way consciously or unconsciously related to healing her own wounds,” said psychologist Lynn. Uncommon Knowledge by Judy Lewis. November 6, 1935 - November 25, 2011. If you would like to get a message to Judy's family, please feel comfortable to send an email. Her correspondence agent will be most pleased to get your message to them. Thank you. Judy Lewis was born, Judith Young 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. Because of the morality clause in both their contracts, Young covered up the fact of her pregnancy, later announcing she had adopted the girl. When Judy was four, her mother married Tom Lewis. Even though Judy carries his last name, he never adopted her. Judy graduated from Marymount High School in 1953. 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. 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 early 1970s, she and Tinney divorced. 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. UNCOMMON KNOWLEDGE, 1994. FROM THE BOOK JACKET: Judy Lewis was in her thirties before she discovered what was common knowledge among the Hollywood elite-that she was the daughter of Clark Gable and Loretta Young. The two had fallen in love while on location filming Call of the Wild-but Gable was a married man and, according to Young's Catholic beliefs and Hollywood's strict moral code, he was off limits. On the brink of mega-stardom herself and terrified that her romance with Gable would ruin their careers, Young gave birth to Judy in secret-later "adopting" her from the orphanage to which she had been sent as an infant. While growing up, Judy, who met "Mr. Gable" once, was never told that he was her father. Set against the backdrop of Hollywood in its heyday, UNCOMMON KNOWLEDGE depicts a world where home movies were filmed by studio cameramen, home was a thirty-eight room house on five-hundred-acre estate in the heart of Beverly Hills, friends were the children of Bing Crosby or Joan Bennett, and getting off a train could be delayed by a mob of fans clamoring to get your mother's autograph. But it is also a story of a lonely little girl who felt she didn't belong anywhere, and who comforted herself by sitting in a dressing room full of her mother's clothes. Hungry for her mother's attention, Judy felt even more excluded after Young's marriage to advertising executive Tom Lewis- a martinet who once said to her two half-brothers, "Judy's adopted. She's not part of our family." Loretta Young was a controlling woman who had little time for the daughter whom she later described as "a mortal sin" - a child who was a reminder of the one thing she had been unable to control. To this day she has never publicly acknowledged her daughter as her own. Judy didn't hear the truth about her parent until her own marriage, when her husband told her what Hollywood had been whispering about for years. And for years, Loretta Young denied it - until Judy forced an admission that ultimately left the connection between mother and daughter in tatters. Only then was Judy able to claim her father: a man she would never know, except on the movie screen. Uncommon Knowledge joins Haywire and Mommie Dearest as a fascinating behind the scenes memoir of Hollywood in its golden days. A devastating character portrait, it is an engrossing narrative of glamour and pathos, controlling ambition and unfilled longing, loneliness and resolution. It is also the account of a journey of self discovery that was difficult but ultimately triumphant. Judy Lewis went on to her own success as actress, producer and writer. She married, became a mother and a grandmother, and she continues to break new ground in her personal and professional life. Here is her unforgettable story. Judy Lewis appeared on Broadway in Jean Kerr's Mary, Mary and was a featured performer on a number of daytime television serials, including "The Secret Storm" and the number one series, "General Hospital." After a successful career behind the camera-where she was a producer for Texas and won a Writer's Guild award for her work on the serial "Search for Tomorrow" - she became a therapist and works as a family counselor in Los Angeles, California.