Daughter of director Eugene De Rue, who was the first film-maker in
Hollywood to use sound dubbing in films and is widely credited as the
inventor of sound-dubbing.
She is sometimes confused with the similarly-named Carmen Laroux, who was active in the 1930s as an actor and dancer, and as Dolores Del Río's stand-in.
She attempted a comeback in pictures in 1925; at the time her theatrical manager was Ben H. Rothwell.