Louis Macloon

Louis Owen Macloon (20 May 1893 – 13 August 1979) was a prominent theatrical producer of the 1920s and 1930s.

Family

Macloon was the son of Chicago Tribune reporter Charles Macloon and Josephine (Owen) Macloon. Macloon married three times, first to Lois Florence Hoover in 1916, divorced by 1922 when he married prominent stage actress Lillian Albertson, twelve years his senior. Albertson divorced in him 1933 and in 1936 he married starlet Lucille Ryman, whom he also divorced. Macloon had one child, Ruth, by his first wife.

Theatrical producer career

Macloon is credited with having given Clark Gable his first professional acting role, carrying a spear as a soldier. Later, Gable served as understudy to the role of Sergeant Quirk in "What Price Glory?", another Macloon production. Macloon told Gable, "You'll do, my boy." [ [http://www.geocities.com/cactus_st/article/article66.html The Great Lover Clark Gable - By Jim Tully - The Family Circle July 4th, 1941] ]

Macloon's career with producing partner and wife Lillian Albertson was prolific, marking over a decade of successful plays and musicals from New York to Chicago and Los Angeles, including "It Pays to Sin", which they translated from Hungarian.

Entrepreneur

Macloon was also an entrepreneur, and was a major investor in Almac Yacht Corporation, of Mystic, Connecticut, which built fifty foot Seven Seas Cruisers with interiors designed by Joseph Urban, the noted architect of the Ziegfeld Theatre.

Death

Macloon died 13 August 1979 at age 86 in Baker City, Oregon.

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