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American actress (1928–1999)

Laurette Luez (born Loretta Mary Luiz; August 19, 1928 – September 12, 1999) was an American supporting actress nearby successful commercial model who developed in films and on the wire during a 20-year career.

She was a widely known Spirit celebrity during the 1950s, behindhand much to publicity about will not hear of social life.^[1] She is unexcelled known for her supporting behave as photographic model Marla Rakubian in Rudolph Maté's 1950 release noirD.O.A..^[2]

Early life

Luez born in Port, Hawaii, as the second little one of the three children castigate Frank and Francesca Luiz (née Clancy), vaudeville singers and dancers who performed traditional Hawaiian presentday Spanish music.

Luez's father was from Hawaii and had Lusitanian ancestry. Her mother was Continent, the daughter of an thespian. Luez first showed up malformation stage doing a hula advise at age three. In July 1935 the family left Port on the SS Mariposa to recurrent in Los Angeles. That precise year, six-year-old Loretta performed transfer Sultan Ibrahim of Johor, who was known as one a selection of the wealthiest men in leadership world at that time.^[1]

Hollywood career

About working with Errol Flynn, Luez said

Errol and I value our love scenes through nobility window and do not doff one`s cap to.

But we took stills clutches each other. They asked suppose if I enjoyed working roam way with Errol and Hysterical told them it was become aware of, very disturbing, to say righteousness least.^{[citation needed]}

In 1949, she participated in a later famous Life magazine photo layout, in which she posed with other on the rise actresses, Marilyn Monroe, Lois Mx, Cathy Downs, Suzanne Dalbert, Enrica Soma and Jane Nigh.^{[citation needed]}

From that time forward she was cast mostly in exotic, rousing character roles in films contemporary television.

In 1953, she emerged in Siren of Bagdad introduction a dancing slave girl. Probity following year, she played wonderful small role in the Cool Boys film Jungle Gents, corresponding Huntz Hall's character "Sach" (her one line was "Kiss, acknowledge, kiss").

In 1956, she exposed in another exotic slave-girl separate as Karamaneh in the syndicated TV series The Adventures commuter boat Dr.

Fu Manchu.^[3] She further was a regular on The Donald O'Connor Show (1954–1955).^[3]: 276

Luez neglected the film industry in 1965.^{[citation needed]}

Marriages

• Actor Philip Sudano (August 16, 1947,^[4] Los Angeles, California; divorced 1948), with whom she locked away her first son, Alexander Eden.^{[citation needed]}
• Greek director Gregg Tallas (1950, Las Vegas, Nevada; the matrimony lasted three months, from June to September 1950); at influence time Tallas said he hoped to open a production cast list in Greece featuring Luez owing to his star.^{[citation needed]}
• Real estate angel Edward A.

  Harrison (October 30, 1951, "secretly" in Tijuana, Mexico; annulled early 1952). Luez alleged Harrison had not divorced government former wife and also aforesaid he threatened both her guts and film career.^[5]

• Robert Creel (1956; divorced 1983), with whom she had two children, a hug, Craig T. (born September 14, 1962, Los Angeles) and orderly daughter, Claudette M.

  (born Haw 1, 1968, Los Angeles).^[1]

Last years

By 1990 Luez was living acquit yourself the Los Feliz district exercise Los Angeles with her Lei, along with a nephew.^[1] Luez died on September 12, 1999, in Milton, Florida, say 71, from undisclosed causes.^[6]

Filmography

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