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The image which appears in the article under the caption Geraldine Fitzgerald is, I am fairly certain, an image of Lee Remick. I don't know who the man in the picture is, but it is definitely not John Houseman.
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I have modified the claim by McGilligan that Orson Welles could not be the father of Lindsay-Hogg and specified the dates in question more carefully. McGilligan calls Welles' parentage a "biological impossibility" in his book. However, a "full" pregnancy is now often considered to be 10 months and it *is* biologically possible to have an overdue pregnancy of 10 and a half or even 11 months. (A simple Google search will confirm both anecdotal comments by mothers and formal discussions by doctors: "Prolonged pregnancy is defined as any pregnancy that lasts 294 days or more." [1]). Not all women have "28 day cycles" or come to full term pregnancy exactly 9 months later.
Fitzgerald also lived and worked in a time when questionable births could be more easily covered up, especially for Hollywood actresses with money. This was the heyday of Georgia Tann, and forged birth certificates. Fitzgerald's contemporary at MGM, Loretta Young, secretly had her illegitimate daughter, Judy Lewis, at home, and built an elaborate story in which she adopted her own biological child many months later. The father was Clark Gable; Lewis only found out the truth late in life; still much later Young told her family a harrowing story about the conception. If Fitzgerald told Gloria Vanderbilt that Welles was the father (and would obviously know if they were intimate in a time that would enable pregnancy), and we understand that women do not all have rigid time-tables of fertility or full term pregnancy, then Welles being the father again becomes "possible". McGilligan could still be correct. It is definitely not "a biological impossibility". 73.115.53.151 (talk) 06:40, 8 June 2019 (UTC)Reply
