1. Judy Lewis was the secret biological daughter of actors Loretta Young and Clark Gable.
20 Facts About Judy Lewis
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Judy Lewis was conceived while her birth parents, Loretta Young and Clark Gable, were working on the film Call of the Wild.
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Weeks after her birth, Judy Lewis was placed in an orphanage.
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Judy Lewis would spend the next 19 months in various "hideaways and orphanages" before being reunited with her mother.
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When Lewis was four years old, Young married radio producer Tom Lewis, and Judy took his last name.
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Judy Lewis bore a striking resemblance to Gable; like Gable, she had ears that stuck out.
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When Judy Lewis was seven years old, Young had her undergo a painful operation to pin her ears back in another attempt to hide her real parentage.
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In 1950, when Judy Lewis was fifteen, her mother made another film with Gable, Key to the City.
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Judy Lewis' acting credits include appearances on TV serials such as General Hospital, Kitty Foyle, and The Doctors.
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Judy Lewis played the role of Susan Ames on The Secret Storm for several seasons.
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Judy Lewis produced the short-lived Another World spin-off, Texas and was a script writer for NBC Daytime's Search for Tomorrow.
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In 1958, Judy Lewis guest-starred in "Attack", an episode of Mackenzie's Raiders.
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In 1960, Judy Lewis appeared in an episode of The Blue Angels entitled "Tiger Blood".
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In 1985, Judy Lewis shared a Writers Guild of America award for several episodes of CBS's Search For Tomorrow.
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Judy Lewis obtained bachelor's and master's degrees in clinical psychology from Antioch University in Los Angeles, became a licensed family and child counselor in 1992, and worked as a psychotherapist with a specialty in foster care and marriage therapy.
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Judy Lewis was the niece of actresses Polly Ann Young, Sally Blane, and Georgiana Young.
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Judy Lewis was the paternal half-sister of John Clark Gable and the maternal half-sister of Christopher Lewis and Peter Lewis.
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In 1994, Judy Lewis published a book about her life entitled Uncommon Knowledge in which she stated that Gable was her father; Young refused to speak with her for three years after the book was published.
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Judy Lewis died of cancer at age 76 on November 25,2011, in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania and is interred at Mount Vernon Cemetery in Philadelphia.
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The family remained silent about Young's claim until Young and Judy Lewis were both deceased.