Laurette Luez

Laurette Luez was a supporting actress and successful commercial model who appeared in films and on television during a 20year career. She was a widely known Hollywood celebrity during the 1950s, owing much to publicity about her social life. She is best known for her supporting role as photographic model Marla Rakubian in Rudolph Mats 1949 film noir D.O.A..

Luez was the second of three children born in Honolulu, Hawaii to Frank and Francesca Luiz, vaudeville singers and dancers who performed traditional Hawaiian and Spanish music. Luezs father was Hawaiian with some Portuguese ancestry. Her mother was Australian, the daughter of an actor. Luez first showed up on stage doing a hula dance at age three. In July 1935 the family left Honolulu on the SS Mariposa to settle in Los Angeles. That same year, sixyearold Loretta performed for Sultan Ibrahim of Johor, who was known as one of the wealthiest men in the world at that time.

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