[2] Whytock was born in Fresno, California, to Robert Wotton and Mary Johnston, both of whom were native Canadians.
She had a twin sister, Leona (an actress); a brother, Clarence; and a half-brother, Robert Carlisle.
[1] She married film editor Grant Whytock at some point during the late 1910s after moving to Los Angeles.
[4] At one point, she was a film editor at Ingram Studios in Nice, France.
[1] Her half-brother, Robert Carlisle, ended up becoming a film producer at MGM; her twin sister Leona's daughter, Mary Carlisle, became a famous actress and lived to the age of 104.