by Hans J. Wollstein
biography
A former dancer of Mexican descent, brunette Linda Loredo was under contract to comedy producer Hal Roach, who cast her as either Senora Hardy or Senora Laurel in Spanish-language versions of such Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy comedies as Blotto (1930), Hog Wild (1930), and Chickens Come Home (1931). She was also Mrs. Laurel in the original version of Come Clean (1931). Loredo died suddenly at Los Angeles' Queen of Angels Hospital during an emergency appendectomy.