Jeanette Loff (born Janette Clarinda Lov; October , â€" August , )
was an American actress, musician, and singer who came to prominence
for her appearances in several Pathé Exchange and Universal Pictures
films in the s.Born in Idaho, Loff was raised throughout the Pacific
Northwest, and began singing professionally as a lyric soprano and
performing as an organist while a teenager in Portland, Oregon. She
studied music at the Ellison-White Conservatory of Music. After moving
to Los Angeles, California, Loff was signed to a film contract by
producer Cecil B. DeMille, with Pathé Exchange in . She subsequently
signed a contract with Universal Pictures. She appeared in over twenty
films during the course of her seven-year career, with lead parts in
such films as Hold 'Em Yale () and the controversial crime film Party
Girl (). She also appeared in the musical King of Jazz () as a
vocalist.Loff formally retired from acting in , with her last screen
credit in Joseph Santley's Million Dollar Baby (). She died on August
, from ammonia poisoning in Los Angeles at the age of . Though law
enforcement was unable to determine whether her death was an accident
or a suicide, Loff's family maintained that she had been murdered.
was an American actress, musician, and singer who came to prominence
for her appearances in several Pathé Exchange and Universal Pictures
films in the s.Born in Idaho, Loff was raised throughout the Pacific
Northwest, and began singing professionally as a lyric soprano and
performing as an organist while a teenager in Portland, Oregon. She
studied music at the Ellison-White Conservatory of Music. After moving
to Los Angeles, California, Loff was signed to a film contract by
producer Cecil B. DeMille, with Pathé Exchange in . She subsequently
signed a contract with Universal Pictures. She appeared in over twenty
films during the course of her seven-year career, with lead parts in
such films as Hold 'Em Yale () and the controversial crime film Party
Girl (). She also appeared in the musical King of Jazz () as a
vocalist.Loff formally retired from acting in , with her last screen
credit in Joseph Santley's Million Dollar Baby (). She died on August
, from ammonia poisoning in Los Angeles at the age of . Though law
enforcement was unable to determine whether her death was an accident
or a suicide, Loff's family maintained that she had been murdered.
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