Hollywood Madonna (26 page)

Loretta and Tom Lewis on their wedding day, 31 July 1940. Photofest.

World-famous designer, Jean Louis, whom Loretta married at eighty. Photofest.

A teenage Loretta and Lon Chaney in
Laugh, Clown, Laugh
(1928). Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

The eighteen-year-old Loretta and Robert Williams in Frank Capra’s
Platinum Blonde
(1931). Photofest.

Loretta being made up to look Chinese in William Wellman’s
The Hatchet Man
(1932). Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Loretta as the daughter of the title character. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Loretta and Spenser Tracy, with whom she fell in love while making Frank Borzage’s
Man’s Castle
(1933). Photofest.

Loretta as the title character in
Midnight Mary
(1934). Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Costars and lovers: Loretta and Clark Gable in Wellman’s
The Call of the Wild
(1935). Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Costars as ex-lovers: Loretta and Gable in
The Key to the City
(1950). Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Loretta, now pregnant, in Cecil B. DeMille’s
The Crusades
(1936). Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Loretta as Eugenie in
Suez
(1938). Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Loretta as Katie in the Oscar-winning
The Farmer’s Daughter
(1947). Photofest.