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

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reporter Charles Macloon and his wife, Josephine, née Owen. Louis Macloon married three times: * Lois Florence Hoover 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,

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, by his first wife.

Theatrical producer career

Macloon is credited with having given

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'' by

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and

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, another Macloon production. Macloon told Gable, "You'll do, my boy."The Great Lover Clark Gable - By Jim Tully - The Family Circle July 4th, 1941
/ref> 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

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, which built fifty foot Seven Seas Cruisers with interiors designed by

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, the noted architect of the Ziegfeld Theatre.

Death

Macloon died 13 August 1979 at age 86 in

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1893 births 1979 deaths American theatre managers and producers Hungarian–English translators People from Baker City, Oregon 20th-century translators {{theat-bio-stub