From 1940 until her death, she operated a cosmetics shop in Hollywood.
She had an older sister, Evelyn Whytock Lehners (1887-1961), who became a music composer, and a younger brother, Grant Whytock (1894-1981), who became a film editor.
She was known as one of the Sennett Bathing Beauties.
She was educated by private tutors and at Roland Hall Seminary.
After a failed comeback in 1926, she starred in Los Angeles stage plays and toured vaudeville.
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.
Carew acted on stage, including work in stock companies and in musical comedies, and she was a vaudeville performer.
She was exceptionally fond of outdoor sports and found her greatest pleasure in motoring around Hollywood and Los Angeles in her raceabout.