Loretta Blake (April 17, 1898 – July 30, 1981) was an American film actress. She appeared in several films between 1914 and 1921.

Early life

Loretta Blake was born on April 17, 1898, at

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. She attended Saint Mary's Convent in Akron for five years before moving to Los Angeles to live with her grandparents. She attended school at Sacred Heart Convent for one year and concluded her formal education at Los Angeles High School.

Career

She joined the famous

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organization without previous experience. Several of her girlfriends were in picture work and she had dropped around to the studio with one of them one day out of curiosity. She cheerfully accepted an offer to do a small role for pin money and when the director saw her appearance she was hired immediately. She was dainty at five feet two inches and 115 pounds.Motography, page 1002 She married director Nathaniel Deverich. They had one child, Albert Douglas Deverich.

Death

She died on July 30, 1981, at

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. Her resting place is

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, Mission Hills CA, Section D, Lot 302, Grave 3.

Selected filmography

* At Dawn (1914)*short * Baby's Ride (1914)*short * Branch Number Thirty-Seven (1915)*short * Probation (1915)*short * The Sea Brat (1915)*short * The Broken Lullaby (1915)*short * His Last Deal (1915)*short * The Double Crossing of Slim (1915)*short * The Black Sheep (1915/II)*short * ''

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'' (1915) * 11:30 P.M. (1915)*short * Ghosts (1915) * ''

The Sable Lorcha ''The Sable Lorcha'' is a novel by Horace Hazeltine that was adapted into a 1915 silent film produced by D. W. Griffith. The story features two long-separated brothers, murder, vengeance, and a kidnapping. The film starred Tully Marshall. Book ...

'' (1915) * ''

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'' (1915) * '' The Eternal Grind'' (1916) * ''

His Picture in the Papers ''His Picture in the Papers'' is a 1916 American silent comedy film written and directed by John Emerson. Anita Loos also wrote the film's scenario. The film stars Douglas Fairbanks and Loretta Blake and features Erich von Stroheim in a mino ...

'' (1916) * '' The Little Princess'' (1917) * One Hundred Percent American (1918)*short * Just Out of College (1920)

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* * 1898 births 1981 deaths Burials at San Fernando Mission Cemetery American film actresses American silent film actresses 20th-century American actresses Actresses from Akron, Ohio {{US-film-actor-1900s-stub