Loretta Young

I had my notes here, and I don't know how that got mixed up, but there we go.

But the next movie, The Bishop's Wife, is a movie directed by Henry Koster, and it stars Cary Grant and Loretta Young and David Niven.

And this is the only movie that I've ever seen David Niven in where he wasn't completely charming.

Well, he's upstaged by Cary Grant.

But great.

He's an angel, and he comes down and just appears to be threatening to David Niven's marriage.

But, in fact, yeah, he does like Loretta Young a lot, David Niven's wife.

But...

as long as you didn't win a beauty contest, you can play the part of Boris Carlos.

Oh, Loretta Young, thank you.

Play, Don.

Oh,

Loretta Young.

That was, for all we know, sung by Frank Rothschild, or Frank Parker.

And very good, Frank, very good.

You can't, uh, uh, there, there's no arguing with that.

And when you look at the other four nominees that year too, which include Jeanne Crain in Pinky, [laughs] uh, Susan Hayward in My Foolish Heart, Deborah in this, and Loretta Young in Come to the Stable, which is a very underrated movie I always tell people to watch at Christmas.

But still, compared to what Olivia de Havilland does in The Heiress, none of these other four achieve what she achieves.

It feels like they just put up four sacrificial lambs-

And I'm nothing if not a podcast host who likes to deliver.

So that's why, here at number two, in the scope of Hollywood scandals and secrets, you can't help but to talk about the secret love child of Loretta Young and Clark Gable, one of the most truly devastating stories I've ever heard in my life.

It all started in 1935 when beautiful, young starlet Loretta Young got cast beside popular leading man Clark Gable.

Loretta, at the time, was one of the sparkling jewels in the studio crowd.

A devout Catholic, she had this squeaky clean, like, virginal image that the heads of Paramount and MGM really loved.

There's even this ridiculous scene with, like, her and Bing Crosby and a bunch of other celebrities holding hands while a priest tells them to use their celebrity for good.

Like, this whole kind of thing.

She was a purity soul during this time, and it really seemed to sell for the stunning film beauty that was Loretta Young.

And that was the Reverend Louie Evans, who ended up in California.

he married an actress, Colleen Evans, Colleen Townsend Evans, and the Reverend John Boyles was the associate pastor.

So that was a Presbyterian church, USA, PCUSA church.

So someone might say, you know, from a theological background, oh, well, was Reagan reformed? Was he a Calvinist? Was he a five-point Calvinist? No, I don't think so.

They were daily communicants.

They went to mass every day.

And Ronald Reagan's first wife, Jane Wyman, who came into the Catholic Church, feast day of the Immaculate Conception, December 8th, 1954, a convert of Fulton Sheen and her good friend, the actress Loretta Young.

Jane Wyman became a third order Dominican nun.

in the neighborhood and they used to go...

Loretta Young.

If some of these figures had been included in the movie, it would ground you in the time and place more-

Sure

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And now, from the files of the Texas Rangers, the case called Pickup.

Now, Mary Livingston is gonna be your leading lady.

Well, what about Loretta Young?

Bitey, don't be unreasonable.

[laughs]

[laughs]

Mary, quiet.

Well, if he wants Loretta Young, let him have her.

Oh, I didn't mean that, Mary.