Known For: American actress (1893-1955)
Category: Actresses
Occupation: actor, film actor, screenwriter
Country: United States of America
City: Salt Lake City
Date of Birth: Sunday, 13 August 1893
Died: 1955-10-26 00:00:00 in Q65
Ora Carew, was an American silent film actress. She starred in several films between 1915 and 1925. She was known as one of the Sennett Bathing Beauties.
BirthPlace | Salt Lake City |
Children | Lotus Grant |
Wikipedia | Ora_Carew |
Ora Whytock was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, to James Whytock and Evelyn Carn Whytock. She had an older sister, Evelyn Whytock Lehners, who became a music composer, and a younger brother, Grant Whytock, who became a film editor. Ora's birth year has been listed as 1893, on her death certificate and is also what her grave says, but Utah birth index and the 1900 census indicate 1891. She was educated by private tutors and at Roland Hall Seminary. After her father died on June 19, 1896, her mother moved with her three children to California. Carew acted on stage, including work in stock companies and in musical comedies, and she was a vaudeville performer. She acted on film with MGM and Universal.