Lita Chevret, a petite and attractive brunette actress and photographer's model, began her promising career in the early days of talking pictures. With the support of her parents, who were already established in the entertainment industry, she was able to receive dancing tuition, which she mastered by the age of twenty, becoming a professional dancer and showgirl.
Her impressive skills as a hoofer and her striking looks caught the attention of Hollywood, securing her a contract and a role in the Fox Movietone Follies of 1929. The following year, she was selected as a WAMPAS Baby Star, a prestigious honor bestowed upon thirteen young hopefuls destined for greatness. Unfortunately, the list was never published due to various reasons, including the transition from silent films to sound, the Wall Street crash, and objections from independent producers, causing Lita to miss out on valuable publicity.
Undeterred, Lita signed a three-year contract with RKO, starting with an uncredited role in the musical Rio Rita, featuring the comedy duo of Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey. For the next few years, she appeared in several films with Wheeler & Woolsey, including The Cuckoos, Everything's Rosie, and Girl Crazy, all of which failed to recoup their costs at the box office.
As her films continued to underperform, Lita found herself relegated to the bottom of the cast lists, struggling to regain her footing in the industry. A glimmer of hope emerged with her role as Birdie Klauber in the maudlin tearjerker Symphony of Six Million, followed by another inconsequential comedy, Goldie Gets Along, and a series of loan-outs to other studios.
Lita also co-starred in a series of two-reel comedies for Mack Sennett, appeared in the obscure western Sandflow, and had a cameo as a chorus girl in Fox's Charlie Chan's Courage. She then took on a succession of no-name parts as showgirls, secretaries, and even an Indian squaw.
Lita briefly made headlines as one of George Raft's romantic conquests, but her time in Hollywood was ultimately short-lived. After a final appearance in The Philadelphia Story, she retired to her home in Palm Springs, where she lived out the rest of her days in relative obscurity, except for a wartime overseas tour with the USO.
