"Hollywood Madonna - Loretta Young" - by Benard K. Dick - 1st EDITION 1st PRINT Hardcover w/Dustjacket - Published in 2011 by University Press of Mississippi - 269 pages (16 pages of great black & white photos) - NEAR MINT-MINT condition.  Loretta Young (1913–2000) was an Academy Award-winning actress known for devout Catholicism and her performances in The Farmer's Daughter, The Bishop's Wife, and Come to the Stable, and for her long-running and tremendously popular television series. But that was not the whole story.  Hollywood Madonna explores the full saga of Loretta Young's professional and personal life. She made her film debut at age four, became a star at fifteen, and many awards and accolades later, made her final television movie at age seventy-six. This biography withholds none of the details of her affair with Clark Gable and the daughter that powerful love produced. Bernard F. Dick places Young's affair in the proper context of the time and the choices available to women in 1935, especially a noted Catholic like Young, whose career would have been in ruins if the public knew of her tryst. With the birth of a daughter, who would have been branded a love child, Loretta Young reached the crossroads of disclosure and deception, choosing the latter path. That choice resulted in an illustrious career for her and a tortured childhood for her daughter.  Again, this book is in beautiful NEAR MINT-MINT condition. No collection of Loretta Young books is complete without this one. Check out the scan for the great photo of her on the cover and so you can judge the condition for yourself (unlike many other booksellers, who post generic scans, the book in my scan is the one you will get). You can try to buy this book for less money from one of those eBay booksellers with hundreds, if not thousands of negatives (you know the ones I refer to) and be lucky if the book is delivered to you in the stated condition (if you even get it at all), or you can buy it from me and be assured of a prompt delivery and of receiving a quality item true to the condition indicated. You won't be disappointed. All previous buyers of my Hollywood biographies have been completely satisfied. I have many others available; please check my listings.  The book will be sent via Media mail shipping in the USA.  I will combine shipping to reduce charges for multiple items.  If you purchase more than one item or lot, please request an invoice for the appropriate combined shipping discount.  See my auctions and my eBay store for hundreds of books and a wide variety of sports and non-sports collectibles.  All items are packed with care to insure safe delivery.  Please contact me if you have any questions.

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