Mutiny on the Bounty (1962 film) to return to Britain and testify to Bligh's wrongdoing and asks his men to sail with him. To prevent this possibility the men set the ship on fire and Christian is fatally burned while trying to save it. Following the success of 1935's "Mutiny on the Bounty", director Frank Lloyd announced plans in 1940 to make a sequel which focused on Captain Bligh in later life, to star Spencer Tracy or Charles Laughton. No film resulted. In 1945 Casey Wilson wrote a script for "Christian of the Bounty", which was to star Clark Gable as Fletcher Christian and focus on
Clark Gable Lewis, and his wife, Linda Lewis, publicly disclosed that Young had told them in 1998 that she had conceived Judy Lewis when Clark Gable raped her. In 1933, Gable was initiated to the Scottish Rite Freemasonry at the Beverly Hills Lodge No.528 CA. In a photo essay of Hollywood film stars, "Life" magazine called Gable, "All man... and then some". Doris Day summed up Gable's unique personality: "He was as masculine as any man I've ever known, and as much a little boy as a grown man could be – it was this combination that had such a devastating effect