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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1891|4|19}}
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1891|4|19}}
| birth_place = [[Salt Lake City, Utah]], U.S.
| birth_place = [[Salt Lake City, Utah]], U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|1955|10|26|1893|4|19}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|1955|10|26|1891|4|19}}
| death_place = [[Los Angeles, California]], U.S.
| death_place = [[Los Angeles, California]], U.S.
| occupation = Actress
| occupation = Actress
| yearsactive = 1915–1925
| yearsactive = 1915–1925
| spouse = {{marriage|Harry E. Grant|1908|end=divorced}}<br />{{marriage|John C. Howard|1922|1924|end=divorced}}
| spouse = {{plainlist|
* {{marriage|Harry E. Grant|1908|end=divorced}}
* {{marriage|John C. Howard|1922|1924|end=divorced}}
}}
| children = 1
| children = 1
| relatives = [[Grant Whytock]] (brother)<br>[[Buzz Feitshans]] (grandson)
| relatives = [[Grant Whytock]] (brother)<br>[[Buzz Feitshans]] (grandson)
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== Early life ==
== Early life ==
Ora Whytock was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, to James Whytock and Evelyn Carn Whytock (1865–1942).<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20343/ora-carew#view-photo=97650|title=Ora Carew (1893–1955) – Find A Grave Memorial}}</ref> She had an older sister, Evelyn Whytock Lehners (1887–1961), who became a music composer,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/85450096/evelyn-lehners|title=Evelyn Whytock Lehners (1887–1961) – Find A Grave Memorial}}</ref> and a younger brother, [[Grant Whytock]] (1894–1981), who became a film editor.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20344/grant-whytock|title=Grant Whytock (1894–1981) – Find A Grave Memorial}}</ref> Ora's birth year has been listed as 1893,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0136876/bio|title=Ora Carew|website=IMDb}}</ref> on her death certificate and is also what her grave says, but Utah birth index and the 1900 census indicate 1891.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x_icAwAAQBAJ&q=ora+carew&pg=PA77 |title = Mack Sennett's Fun Factory: A History and Filmography of His Studio and His Keystone and Mack Sennett Comedies, with Biographies of Players and Personnel|isbn = 978-0-7864-7711-1|last1 = Walker|first1 = Brent E.|date = 2013-04-25}}</ref><ref name="auto" />
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,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0136876/bio|title=Ora Carew|website=IMDb}}</ref> on her death certificate and is also what her grave says, but Utah birth index and the 1900 census indicate 1891.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x_icAwAAQBAJ&q=ora+carew&pg=PA77 |title = Mack Sennett's Fun Factory: A History and Filmography of His Studio and His Keystone and Mack Sennett Comedies, with Biographies of Players and Personnel|isbn = 978-0-7864-7711-1|last1 = Walker|first1 = Brent E.|date = 2013-04-25}}</ref><ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20343/ora-carew#view-photo=97650|title=Ora Carew (1893–1955) – Find A Grave Memorial}}</ref>


She was educated by private tutors and at Roland Hall Seminary.<ref name=":1">{{cite book |last1=Fox |first1=Charles Donald |last2=Silver |first2=Milton L. |title=Who's who on the Screen |date=1920 |publisher=Ross publishing Company |page=250 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4DAOAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Ora+Carew%22&pg=PA249 |access-date=May 28, 2020 |language=en}}</ref> After her father died on June 19, 1896, her mother moved with her three children to California.
She was educated by private tutors and at Roland Hall Seminary.<ref name=":1">{{cite book |last1=Fox |first1=Charles Donald |last2=Silver |first2=Milton L. |title=Who's who on the Screen |date=1920 |publisher=Ross publishing Company |page=250 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4DAOAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Ora+Carew%22&pg=PA249 |access-date=May 28, 2020 |language=en}}</ref> After her father died on June 19, 1896, her mother moved with her three children to California.


== Career ==
== Career ==
Carew acted on stage, including work in stock companies and in musical comedies, and she was a vaudeville performer. She acted on film with [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer|MGM]] and [[Universal Studios|Universal]].<ref name=":1" />
Carew acted on stage, including work in stock companies and in musical comedies, and she was a vaudeville performer. She acted on film with [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer|MGM]] and [[Universal Pictures|Universal]].<ref name=":1" />


== Later years and death ==
== Later years and death ==
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Latest revision as of 01:39, 28 November 2024

Ora Carew
Carew in Who's Who on the Screen, 1920
Born
Ora Whytock

(1891-04-19)April 19, 1891
Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.
DiedOctober 26, 1955(1955-10-26) (aged 64)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Resting placeForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale
OccupationActress
Years active1915–1925
Spouses
Harry E. Grant
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​
(m. 1908, divorced)​
John C. Howard
​
​
(m. 1922; div. 1924)​
Children1
RelativesGrant Whytock (brother)
Buzz Feitshans (grandson)

Ora Carew (born Ora Whytock; April 19, 1891[1] – October 26, 1955), 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.

Early life

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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,[2] on her death certificate and is also what her grave says, but Utah birth index and the 1900 census indicate 1891.[1][3]

She was educated by private tutors and at Roland Hall Seminary.[4] After her father died on June 19, 1896, her mother moved with her three children to California.

Career

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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.[4]

Later years and death

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After a failed comeback in 1926, she starred in Los Angeles stage plays and toured vaudeville. From 1940 until her death, she operated a cosmetics shop in Hollywood. Carew died of a stroke at a Los Angeles sanitarium on October 26, 1955, and was interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.[1]

Personal life

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Carew married Harry E. Grant on June 15, 1908, in El Paso, Texas. The couple had one daughter, Lotus Grant (October 20, 1909 – June 25, 2007), who married Fred R. Feitshans Jr., making film producer Buzz Feitshans Carew's grandson.

Ora and Harry divorced before 1920. She remarried to John C. Howard in December 1922 in Hollywood, California, and they divorced in 1924.

She was 5 feet 3 inches (1.60 m) tall, weighed 120 pounds (54 kg), and had brown hair and brown eyes. She was exceptionally fond of outdoor sports and found her greatest pleasure in motoring around Hollywood and Los Angeles in her raceabout.

Selected filmography

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Walker, Brent E. (2013-04-25). Mack Sennett's Fun Factory: A History and Filmography of His Studio and His Keystone and Mack Sennett Comedies, with Biographies of Players and Personnel. ISBN 978-0-7864-7711-1.
  2. ^ "Ora Carew". IMDb.
  3. ^ "Ora Carew (1893–1955) – Find A Grave Memorial".
  4. ^ a b Fox, Charles Donald; Silver, Milton L. (1920). Who's who on the Screen. Ross publishing Company. p. 250. Retrieved May 28, 2020.
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