Emerging from a Salt Lake City childhood and a Hollywood upbringing that saw her attend Ramona Convent School, she entered the entertainment world as a toddler in silent pictures and was renamed Loretta by actress Colleen Moore. After early roles such as the 1928 film The Whip Woman and a WAMPAS Baby Star selection, she built a film résumé that included pre-Code drama Born to Be Bad (1934), the Ja…
