Lita Chevret (May 27, 1908 – April 23, 2001) was an American actress who was a familiar face in the early days of sound cinema, a quintessential chorus girl and bit player who appeared in over 60 films during the 1930s.
Chevret began her career at the dawn of the “talkies,” appearing in early musicals like Fox Movietone Follies of 1929 and Rio Rita (1929). She was signed to a contract with RKO Radio Pictures, where she was often cast as vivacious party girls, dancers, and “the other woman” in numerous comedies and dramas.
While most of her roles were small and often uncredited, she earned a rare leading part in the B-Western Sandflow (1937) and played a memorable femme fatale in the Boris Karloff mystery, The Fatal Hour (1940). Her career is a perfect example of the dedicated and hard-working performers who made up the vibrant background of Hollywood’s Golden Age.
