Rita La Roy, born Ina La Roi Stuart in Idaho in 1901, was an American actress of the early talking picture era, beginning her career in 1929, and having her last significant role in 1940. She appeared in over 50 films, the best known of which was Blonde Venus, which starred Marlene Dietrich. After her acting career, she ran a modeling agency in Los Angeles, the Rita La Roy Modeling School and Agency. Also in the 1940s, she wrote and produced her own television show for KTLA in Los Angeles, for which she won an Emmy Award in 1948.
She began as a vaudeville dancer on the Pantages and Orpheum theater circuits. Among her specialty routines were the "frog dance", the "peacock dance" and the "cobra dance", in which her feet and legs were tied together under a stylized snakeskin so that she danced by undulating her torso.
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Emmy award-winning early television hostess and actress. In films with Paramount from 1927. In later years, ran the Rita La Roy Modeling School and Agency in Los Angeles.
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Although studio publicity claimed she was born in Paris, France, the truth of the matter is that she was born in Idaho, USA.
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