Loretta Tupper (1906-1990) was a former radio entertainer and actress who played Mrs. Trump on Sesame Street on a semi-regular basis in the 1980s. Born Loretta Clemens, she began her career as a pianist and singer with her brother Jack Clemens, and the siblings soon transitioned into radio, in addition to occasional film appearances in musical shorts. The Clemens siblings had their own quarter-hour radio series which ran off and on from 1933 through 1939, and starred on the musical comedy series The Gibson Family (1934-1935; reworked as Uncle Charlie's Tent Show for the last few months), with Loretta Clemens playing Dotty Marsh, girlfriend to Bobby Gibson (brother Jack). In 1936, she was a featured singer on the Philip Morris Cigarettes series Johnny Presents. During this period, she marri
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