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The child that Clark Gable had was with Loretta Young, not Crawford, which Young acknowledged publicly in a biography that was to be published after her death. The typical reaction from the studio would have been to rush Joan to the abortionist, something Loretta refused to do. Loretta came to understand that the pressure she was put under by Gable would have been called date rape today but it caused tremendous problems between her and her daughter who thought Loretta, a devout Catholic, was a hypocrite. Loretta suffered from terrible guilt her whole life and Gable took no responsibility at all for his daughter. From all the books I've read women in general were continuously pressured to sleep with producers, directors, male actors with clout in the industry,, etc, so Joan's stepfather was undoubtedly one of many men who expected Joan to go to bed with them. Women like Bette, Loretta Young, etc were known for refusing to be pressured in order to get better roles, etc. BTW, Myrna Loy, an actress I really admire, was a friend of Joan's and said the only time she was happy that she couldn't have children was when she saw Christina Crawford. She said Joan never complained or said anything negative about her children, though Loy thought Christina was an awful, impossible girl. Loy worked with Christina on stage and said that she had talent but simply refused to do what the director asked of her, caused problems for everyone else and therefore didn't go anywhere in the industry. Loy said that Joan loved the trappings of a movie star, something that didn't impress Loy at all - she was one of the divas of her day - but there was no greater friend and that Joan would do anything for you and give you anything she could if you were a friend of hers. She found her kind and caring. I sympathize with all of these women; it couldn't have been an easy profession for a women and it doesn't seem as though many of them had what we would consider a happy childhood.

They should take away whatever license "Doctor" Drew has. Luckily two working class twenty somethings are seemingly miles ahead of this overeducated guy who's probably never pulled a fraction of the work load that Gary and Christina have in the past years. Gary was carrying the ball for Amber before Christina ever showed up and he's learned how to calmly but firrmly get his message across that he's more than willing to try to understand and accommodate this train wreck but that Amber doesn't even want the hours she already has with Leah. She wants him off the stage ASAP because she can't distract him and knock him off his point anymore, and she hasn't one fact at her disposal to counter him. She is, and I'm sure even more infuriating to her, looks to the audience as though, she's lying through her teeth,trying to manipulate everyone around her, and besides dabbing at non-existent tears, there's nothing left for her but to walk off the stage. I've never been fond of Amber but the mask totally fell off on the reunion show and we saw true ugliness. The doctor lucked out because if I'd have been Christina, him having the chutzpah to tell her to take on another job beside the ones she already has, I'd have slapped him in his face. Christina has obviously done a lot for Leah and has serious issues with her own daughter's health, but she should pause to try to counsel Amber who has no job, no one to look after and whose main preoccupations are her boob and lipo jobs which she "deserves" because she never felt good about herself. Gee, I wonder if Chistina felt beautiful growing up. Drew doesn't seem to put any thought into what he's going to say on these shows. Mom to mom???? What support do you think Amber has given to Christina or indeed to anyone in her life? Oh and the tearful yelling at Gary about all the sacrifices she's made for Leah. What sacrifices were they again?