Judy Lewis

One of her closest friends is former child actress Cammie King Conlon, who played Bonnie Butler, daughter of her father Clark Gable's character Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind (1939).

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.

Her daughter Maria, by then-husband Joe Tinney, was born November 16, 1959. On Maria's 1st birthday, November 16, 1960, her grandfather Clark Gable died. Maria has two sons, Michael and Gregory.

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.

She wrote in her autobiography, Uncommon Knowledge in 1994, that she had very much wanted a second child, but after much difficulty conceiving, she eventually miscarried in 1962. Luke is the name she had wished to call him. She was so terribly devastated by the loss of her son that she could no longer even consider the thought of having another child.

(1997-) Lives in Los Angeles where she practices as a licensed clinical psychotherapist. She works in a private practice and with a non-profit agency servicing troubled teens.

In May 2001, she was publicly introduced as Clark Gable's daughter for the first time at a Gone with the Wind (1939) convention.