Estelle Etterre

Estelle Etterre (sometimes billed as Belle Hare; July 26, 1899 – March 7, 1996) was an American actress. She appeared in many early 1930s Hal Roach films, such as the Laurel and Hardy short films County Hospital, The Chimp (both 1932) and Our Relations. She also had minor parts in Our Gang short films Free Eats, Choo-Choo!, The Pooch, Forgotten Babies and Free Wheeling. She later appeared in the Abbott and Costello film In The Navy and her last film was The Manchurian Candidate (1962).

Career Before Etterre became an actress, she operated a comptometer at a business in Los Angeles. After that, she became a model, primarily working in fashion shows, many of which were held at the Café Montmartre. When Etterre decided to try working in films, Pearl Eaton, who was dance director at RKO, remembered her from the Montmartre and selected her as one of 12 from several hundred women who tried out for stock contracts.

Etterre discovered that stock contracts typically limited actresses to extra roles, which led her to stop working in films when her contract ended, She became a showgirl, but she later resumed modeling, both for fashion shows and for commercial photographers. She also worked in more films.

Personal life Estelle Etterre was born on July 26, 1899, in San Francisco, California. Her father was William Howard Frederick and her mother Carrie May Case.

On June 3, 1920, she married Josef Werner Makk Jr. in Los Angeles. On February 22, 1925, Makk had died and by 1940 Etterre was earning $2,500 per year. She married again on April 3, 1943, to Donald Hyde Clough in Los Angeles; they later divorced.

Filmography

Film In all her films she only took minor roles, many of which she was not credited for

[*] Credited as Belle Hare

Television The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1954) It's a Great Life (1955) Leave It to Beaver (1961) The Lucy Show (1964)