Loretta Young comes across pretty well here, which is good since she has long been known as a Hollywood conservative. Raped, refused an abortion, made things okay for herself and her baby. It would have been better to get justice for the rape, but almost an impossible proposition at the time.
Lorette Young had other affairs with married men, Spencer Tracy to name one. If she was raped by Gable why did she agree to star in another movie with him 15 years later?
I read one version of the Loretta Young “adoption” story wherein her daughter was told by a young man, the daughter’s peer in age iirc, that “Everyone” in Hollywood knew Clark Gable was her father. (I probably even read it here on a FR thread.)
Of course Ms. Young did the right thing by choosing life for her child (I really hate the idea that Clark Gable is a rapist and I’ve never heard that before so I’ll just leave it aside at this time) and I CANNOT blame her for wanting to raise the child herself, in fact I admire her for all she went through. It’s the kind of thing I think I might do myself, in fact. But I think it did cause her daughter emotional pain, although it is true that Loretta Young sure isn’t the first nor the last parent to do that.