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 where she finished her education.

Career

She joined the famous D. W. Griffith 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 actor, director, and agent Nat G. 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 * ''

The Absentee ''The Absentee'' is a novel by Maria Edgeworth, published in 1812 in ''Tales of Fashionable Life'', that expresses the systemic evils of the absentee landlord class of Anglo-Irish and the desperate condition of the Irish peasantry. There are man ...

'' (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. Book The book was published by A. C. McLurg & Co. in 1912. A contemporary review in the ''San Francisco Call'' states that the excitement never flags ...

'' (1915) * ''

Ghosts A ghost is the soul or spirit of a dead person or animal that is believed to be able to appear to the living. In ghostlore, descriptions of ghosts vary widely from an invisible presence to translucent or barely visible wispy shapes, to rea ...

'' (1915) * ''

The Eternal Grind ''The Eternal Grind'' is a 1916 silent drama film directed by John B. O'Brien, and starring Mary Pickford. The film is inspired by the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, which took place in 1911. Plot Louise (Pickford) is a sewing-machine girl i ...

'' (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 minor ...

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

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* * * 1898 births 1964 deaths Burials at San Fernando Mission Cemetery American film actresses American silent film actresses 20th-century American actresses Actresses from Ohio People from Akron, Ohio {{US-film-actor-1900s-stub