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Elvis Duran and the Morning Show ON DEMAND

The Backstory: Date raped by a superstar in classic Hollywood

Elvis Duran and the Morning Show ON DEMAND

Elvis Duran Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts

News, Society & Culture, Entertainment News, Music, Music History, Comedy

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Loretta Young was a superstar during Hollywood’s golden age. But after her death, in her memoir, she admitted that her daughter was fathered by Clark Gable. Her family later said she’d told them it was date rape.

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0:00.0

All right, imagine your career in Hollywood is just launching when you make a film with a huge heartthrob.

0:06.1

A mutual flirtation turns into a night of unwanted sex leading to a baby.

0:11.7

And you have to hide the pregnancy and the child's origin for decades.

0:15.8

I'm Patty Steele.

0:17.1

Loretta Young, huge mid-century movie star, date raped by another superstar.

0:22.9

That's next on the backstory.

0:25.7

Is your country falling apart?

0:28.1

Feeling tired, depressed, a little bit revolutionary?

0:31.6

Consider this.

0:32.6

Start your own country.

0:34.1

I planted the flag.

0:35.1

I just kind of looked out of like, this is mine.

0:37.3

I own this. It's surprisingly easy. There's kind of looked out of like, this is mine. I own this.

0:38.2

It's surprisingly easy.

0:39.5

There's 55 gallons of water for 500 pounds of concrete.

0:42.6

Everybody's doing it.

0:43.9

I am King Ernest Immanuel.

0:45.7

I am the Queen of Ladonia.

0:47.1

I'm Jackson I first, King of Caperberg.

0:49.0

I am the Supreme Leader of the Grand Republic of Montonia.

0:51.7

Be part of a great colonial tradition. Well, why can't I try my country? My forefathers did that themselves.

0:57.2

What could go wrong?

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