Early Life
Blake was born in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California. She is the first child of Martha Mae Whitney (née Wilkerson) and Harry C. Whitney, a United States Secret Service agent who had guarded U.S. President, Woodrow Wilson, his wife, and other political officials. Blake and her younger brother traveled around the country extensively, during which time she attended sixteen different schools. While attending Pasadena City College, she worked in small-theater groups in the Los Angeles area. In the summer she worked at her mother's ice cream stand in McMinnville, Oregon.
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