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Dorothy Lamour (December 10, 1914 - September 22, 1996) was a motion picture actress, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, died in Hollywood, California.
Lamour's birth name was Mary Leta Dorothy Slaton; Lamour came from a variation of the name of her step-father, Carlo Lambour. After winning the title of Miss New Orleans in a beauty pageant she moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1931, hoping to become a professional singer. She got a job as a chorus girl in the Busby Berkeley musical Footlight Parade (1933) and singing with the band of Herbie Kay, who became her first husband. She also sang on the popular Rudy Vallee radio show.
In 1936 she moved to Hollywood and began appearing regularly in films for Paramount Pictures, first in bit parts. The role that made her a star was Ulah (a sort of female Tarzan) in The Jungle Princess (1936). She wore a sarong, which would become associated with her, and captivated many viewers with her sensuous exotic attractive appearance. While she first achieved stardom as a sex symbol, Lamour also showed talent as both a comic and dramatic actress.
She appeared in a series of road movies with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope in the 1940s and 1950s.
Some of Dorothy Lamour's other notable films include The Hurricane (1937), Disputed Passage (1939), Beyond the Blue Horizon (1942), Dixie (1943), and On Our Merry Way (1948).
Dororthy Lamour died at her home in North Hollywood, California at the age of 81 of undisclosed causes, although a heart attack and diverticulitis have been suggested as the possible causes of death. She was interred in the Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles, California after a Catholic funeral service.
Dorothy Lamour Filmography
Actor
• Creepshow 2 (1987)
• Pajama Party (1964)
• Donovan's Reef (1963)
• The Road to Hong Kong (1962)
• The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
• Road to Bali (1952)
• On Our Merry Way (1948)
• My Favorite Brunette (1947)
• Road to Rio (1947)
• Variety Girl (1947)
• Road to Utopia (1946)
• They Got Me Covered (1943)
• Road to Morocco (1942)
• Caught in the Draft (1941)
• Road to Zanzibar (1941)
• Johnny Apollo (1940)
• Road to Singapore (1940)
• The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938)
• Spawn of the North (1938)
• The Hurricane (1937)
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