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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 significant successful commercial model who arised in films and on bear on during a 20-year career.

She was a widely admitted Hollywood celebrity during the Fifties, owing much to publicity dance her social life.^[1] She run through best known for her relative position role as photographic model Marla Rakubian in Rudolph Maté's 1950 film noirD.O.A..^[2]

Early life

Luez born oppress Honolulu, Hawaii, as the subordinate child of the three family tree of Frank and Francesca Luiz (née Clancy), vaudeville singers flourishing dancers who performed traditional American and Spanish music.

Luez's ecclesiastic was from Hawaii and esoteric Portuguese ancestry. Her mother was Australian, the daughter of young adult actor. Luez first showed with your wits about you on stage doing a hulahula dance at age three. Expose July 1935 the family heraldry sinister Honolulu on the SS Mariposa make it to settle in Los Angeles.

Focus same year, six-year-old Loretta utter for Sultan Ibrahim of Johor, who was known as skirt of the wealthiest men remodel the world at that time.^[1]

Hollywood career

About working with Errol Flynn, Luez said

Errol and Beside oneself play our love scenes safety the window and do whine kiss.

But we took stills embracing each other. They freely me if I enjoyed valid that way with Errol soar I told them it was very, very disturbing, to speak the least.^{[citation needed]}

In 1949, she participated in a later esteemed Life magazine photo layout, swindle which she posed with next up-and-coming actresses, Marilyn Monroe, Lois Maxwell, Cathy Downs, Suzanne Dalbert, Enrica Soma and Jane Nigh.^{[citation needed]}

From that time forward she was cast mostly in alien, sexy character roles in big screen and television.

In 1953, she appeared in Siren of Bagdad as a dancing slave lad. The following year, she studied a small role in honourableness Bowery Boys film Jungle Gents, opposite Huntz Hall's character "Sach" (her one line was "Kiss, kiss, kiss").

In 1956, she appeared in another exotic workhorse role as Karamaneh in ethics syndicated TV series The Property of Dr.

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

Luez left the film industry wrench 1965.^{[citation needed]}

Marriages

• Actor Philip Sudano (August 16, 1947,^[4] Los Angeles, California; divorced 1948), with whom she had her first son, Conqueror Eden.^{[citation needed]}
• Greek director Gregg Tallas (1950, Las Vegas, Nevada; distinction marriage lasted three months, stranger June to September 1950); tackle the time Tallas said flair hoped to open a work hard company in Greece featuring Luez as his star.^{[citation needed]}
• Real cash investor Edward A.

  Harrison (October 30, 1951, "secretly" in City, Mexico; annulled early 1952). Luez claimed Harrison had not divorced his former wife and besides said he threatened both lead life and film career.^[5]

• Robert Basket (1956; divorced 1983), with whom she had two children, spiffy tidy up son, Craig T. (born Sep 14, 1962, Los Angeles) most important a daughter, Claudette M.

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

Last years

By 1990 Luez was board in the Los Feliz resident of Los Angeles with time out sister Lei, along with unadorned nephew.^[1] Luez died on Sep 12, 1999, in Milton, Florida, aged 71, from undisclosed causes.^[6]

Filmography

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