Now a top star, Lamour was borrowed by Fox to star with Tyrone Power in the gangster melodrama Johnny Apollo (1940), singing two fine songs with lyrics by Frank Loesser, "This is the Beginning of the End" and "Dancing for Nickels and Dimes", the latter perform-ed in a fetching urchin outfit that Lamour hated. Both were well liked by the public but neither was as popular as her third "Road" movie, Road to Morocco (1942).[14]. Paramount next put her back in the jungle for Typhoon (1940) with Robert Preston, another enormous hit. [citation needed], Lamour's first marriage was to orchestra leader Herbie Kay, whose orchestra Lamour sang with. And I'm very grateful for that sarong. She was one of many Paramount stars to cameo in Duffy's Tavern (1945), then did a fourth "Road", Road to Utopia (1945), then Masquerade in Mexico (1945) with de Cordova. Congratulations on this excellent venture… what a great idea! In a generally dire film, Lamour was to have the brightest moment when, asked by the two stars to help them hide from gangsters, she listen to their summary of the plot so far then replies, "OK, boys, I'll hide you." She and Hope were borrowed by Sam Goldwyn for a comedy They Got Me Covered (1943), then she did one with Crosby without Hope, Dixie (1943), a popular biopic of Dan Emmett. She was in three big hits in a row: My Favorite Brunette (1947), a comedy with Hope; Wild Harvest (1947), a melodrama with Alan Ladd and Preston; and Road to Rio (1947). Lamour made a brief appearance and sang a song near the end of that film. Dorothy Lamour was born on December 10, 1914 and died on September 22, 1996. He teaches her English ("What is this word `Kiss'?" Lamour quit school at age 14. Hollywood's "sarong girl" Dorothy Lamour made no claims to be a great actress, but few stars of the screen's vintage years are regarded with greater affection. Paramount, now convinced that Lamour and a sarong were a winning combination, starred her in Her Jungle Love (1938), as a native girl who rescues a stranded aviator (Milland again). The director John Ford, preparing to film The Hurricane for the producer Sam Goldwyn, suggested Lamour for the role of Samura, daughter of a native chief, and Goldwyn traded his contract star Joel McCrea with Paramount to secure her. Mary Leta Dorothy Slaton[2] was born on December 10, 1914, in New Orleans,[3] the daughter of Carmen Louise (née LaPorte; 1892–1930) and John Watson Slaton (1895–1963), both of whom were waiters. [38], Lamour is the heroine of Matilda Bailey's young adult novel, Dorothy Lamour and the Haunted Lighthouse (1947), whose "heroine has the same name and appearance as the famous actress but has no connection ... it is as though the famous actress has stepped into an alternate reality in which she is an ordinary person." She did a popular musical with Eddie Bracken, William Holden and Betty Hutton, The Fleet's In (1942), which gave her a hit song, "I Remember You". Lamour made Melody Inn (1943) with Dick Powell, then And the Angels Sing (1944) with Fred MacMurray and Hutton, where she sang "It Should Happen to You". [21], In 1980, Lamour published her autobiography My Side of the Road and revived her nightclub act.[22]. Enter your email to follow new comments on this article. "I was trying to follow the script but just couldn't get my lines out", she said later. "They always joked about my temperament after that," she stated, "but they never did that to me again!". In 1936, she moved to Hollywood, where she signed with Paramount Pictures. Are you sure you want to mark this comment as inappropriate? Are you sure you want to submit this vote? and The Love Boat and films like Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976) and Death at Love House (1976). try again, the name must be unique, Please "[26] In her autobiography My Side of the Road (1980), Lamour does not discuss Hoover in detail; she refers to him only as "a lifelong friend". She stands there before the camera and ad-libs with Crosby and me knowing that the way the script is written she'll come second or third best, but she fears nothing. try again, the name must be unique, Show{{#moreThan3_total}} {{value_total}} {{/moreThan3_total}} comments, You may not agree with our views, or other users’, but please respond to them respectfully, Swearing, personal abuse, racism, sexism, homophobia and other discriminatory or inciteful She again scored a great personal success and had another hit song with her recording of the film's theme tune, "The Moon of Manakoora". That's it. The screenwriters Don Hartman and Frank Butler had adapted an old script of Paramount's as a tropical adventure-comedy entitled The Road to Mandalay for Fred MacMurray and Jack Oakie, who turned it down. She was reunited with her Hurricane co-star Jon Hall in the vividly coloured Aloma of the South Seas (1941), singing "White Blossoms of Rah-ni" and dealing with the wicked high priests and an erupting volcano in another box-office hit. Due to the sheer scale of this comment community, we are not able to give each post [34], Lamour died at her home in North Hollywood on September 22, 1996 at the age of 81. You can find our Community Guidelines in full here. Around that time, Carmen married her third husband, Ollie Castleberry, and the family lived in Los Angeles. Please Raft was meant to be Lamour's leading man in St. Louis Blues (1939) but he turned down the part and was replaced by Lloyd Nolan. Lamour's role opposite Crosby in Dixie (1943), a loose biography of the minstrel star and composer Dan Emmett, was a disappointing one in which she had no song solos, but in And The Angels Sing (1944), she introduced the Johnny Burke-Jimmy Van Heusen standard, "It Should Happen to You". Lamour was Jack Benny's leading lady in the musical Man About Town (1939) then played a Chinese girl in a melodrama, Disputed Passage (1939). Lamour was also known for her volunteer work, selling war bonds during tours in which movie stars would travel the country selling U.S. government bonds to the public.

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