- Born
- Died
- Birth nameIna May Stewart
- Nicknames
- Rita Le Roy
- Rita LaRoy
- Rita La Roy Corbett
- Rita LeRoy
- Rita La Roy was born on October 2, 1901 in Bonners Ferry, Idaho, USA. She was an actress and director, known for Hold That Woman! (1940), Blonde Venus (1932) and Flight from Glory (1937). She was married to Ben Hershfield. She died on February 17, 1993 in San Diego, California, USA.
- SpouseBen Hershfield(September 28, 1931 - October 1933) (divorced)
- Sold yachts after retiring from motion pictures.
- Although studio publicity claimed she was born in Paris, France, the truth of the matter is that she was born in Idaho, USA.
- 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.
- 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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