Louis Macloon

Louis Owen Macloon (20 May 1893 – 13 August 1979, age 86) was a prominent theatrical producer of the 1920s and 1930s.

Family[]

Macloon was the son of Chicago Tribune reporter Charles Macloon and his wife, Josephine, née Owen.

Louis Macloon married three times:

• in 1916, divorced by 1922
• Lillian Albertson, in 1922, divorced in 1933
• Lucille Ryman, 1936 (also ended in divorce)

He had one child, a daughter, , 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 by Laurence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson, another Macloon production. Macloon told Gable, "You'll do, my boy."^[1]

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 , 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.

References[]

External links[]

Louis Macloon at the Internet Broadway Database

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