Loretta Clemens Tupper

Who was Loretta Clemens Tupper?

Loretta Clemens Tupper was born 6 May 1906, in Marblehead, Ohio and died 17 September 1990, in The Bronx, New York. She was a singer and an actor. She was famous for playing the old lady in the Fruit of the Loom commercials from the 1980s. She was a character on the PBS Television show Sesame Street called Mrs. Mae Trump in the 1980s. She played small roles in numerous movies including:

Walls of Glass, The Purple Rose of Cairo, The House of God, The First Time, The King of Comedy, Honky Tonk Freeway, Home Movies, Midnight Madness, Something Short of Paradise, Annie Hall and Vitaphone Frolics.

In the early 1930s, Loretta and her brother Jack Clemens played music in a band called Loretta and Jack. Jack Clemens was a guitar player, a singer and a comedian. They recorded a number of songs including Stop! You're Breaking My Heart from the album Jazz Guitar Varieties, written by Ted Koehler and Burton Lane, Black and Blue written by Harry Brooks and Andy Razaf and composed by Thomas "Fats" Waller, from the album Jazz Guitar Varieties and Just A Little Girl written by S. B. Fishburne. In the early 1930s Loretta was a member of a band called The Triolettes, along with Eunice Miller and Marjorie Sullivan.