Dorothy Lamour

She is interred in the Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. Her star will be installed in early 2005. Dororthy Lamour died at her home in North Hollywood, California at the age of 81. In late 2004, Lucci revealed to Soap Opera Digest that she has earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 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). After eighteen failed nominations, it came as a shock to both her as well as the viewing audience when she finally won in 1999. She appeared in a series of road movies with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope in the 1940s and 1950s. Lucci's name became synonymous with never winning an award, and she was even asked to parody her loss on Saturday Night Live (in the skit, even the hairdresser won an Emmy, while she did not).

While she first achieved stardom as a sex symbol, Lamour also showed talent as both a comic and dramatic actress. The long period without a win ended up being the source of many jokes. She wore a sarong, which would become associated with her, and captivated many viewers with her sensuous exotic attractive appearance. She was nominated for an Emmy for her work on All My Children almost every year since 1978, losing many times to fellow ABC soap actress, Erika Slezak. The role that made her a star was Ulah (a sort of female Tarzan) in The Jungle Princess (1936). Many critics praised her performance and the film has become a holiday favorite. In 1936 she moved to Hollywood and began appearing regularly in films for Paramount Pictures, first in bit parts. Lucci played a Scrooge-like department store owner visited by Marley and the three ghosts on Christmas.

She also sang on the popular Rudy Vallee radio show. This film was an updated version of Dickens's classic A Christmas Carol. She got a job singing with the band of Herbie Kay, who became her first husband. In 1995, Lucci appeared in the Lifetime television movie Ebbie. 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 has appeared in a number of television shows and made-for-TV movies. Lamour's birth name was Mary Leta Dorothy Slaton; Lamour came from the name of her step-father. She is best known for the role of Erica Kane (full name Erica Kane Martin Brent Cudahy Chandler Montgomery Montgomery Chandler Marick Marick) on the ABC television soap opera All My Children, on which she has appeared since the show's inception on January 5, 1970.

Dorothy Lamour (December 10, 1914 - September 22, 1996) was a motion picture actress, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, died in Hollywood, California. She is the mother of fellow soap actress Liza Huber. "Glamour is just sex that got civilized.". Susan Lucci (born December 23, 1947 in Scarsdale, New York) is an Italian American Daytime Emmy-award winning actress.