Dorothy Lamour

She is interred in the Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. Films include:. Dororthy Lamour died at her home in North Hollywood, California at the age of 81. Television includes:. 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). Lumley was awarded an OBE in 1995. She appeared in a series of road movies with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope in the 1940s and 1950s. The first of her two subsequent marriages was to comedy writer, Jeremy Lloyd.

While she first achieved stardom as a sex symbol, Lamour also showed talent as both a comic and dramatic actress. However, following her rise to fame, she revealed that she had been an unmarried mother during the 1960s when it was socially unacceptable. She wore a sarong, which would become associated with her, and captivated many viewers with her sensuous exotic attractive appearance. She has specialised in playing upper-class parts, and her distinctive plummy voice has reinforced this. The role that made her a star was Ulah (a sort of female Tarzan) in The Jungle Princess (1936). Her first major role was as Purdey in The New Avengers: a revival of the secret agent series The Avengers. In 1936 she moved to Hollywood and began appearing regularly in films for Paramount Pictures, first in bit parts. Tall, leggy, thin and blonde, she began her acting career as a Bond girl in On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

She also sang on the popular Rudy Vallee radio show. Joanna Lumley (born May 1, 1946 in Srinagar, Kashmir, India) is a British actress and former model who is best known for her portrayal of the chain smoking, boozing, cocaine-sniffing and other drug-taking sexpot Patsy Stone on the British comedy television show Absolutely Fabulous. She got a job singing with the band of Herbie Kay, who became her first husband. Trail of the Pink Panther. 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. Tam Lin. Lamour's birth name was Mary Leta Dorothy Slaton; Lamour came from the name of her step-father. Sweeney Todd.

Dorothy Lamour (December 10, 1914 - September 22, 1996) was a motion picture actress, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, died in Hollywood, California. Some Girls Do. "Glamour is just sex that got civilized.". Shirley Valentine. The Satanic Rites of Dracula. Prince Valiant.

Parting Shots. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Mad Cows. James and the Giant Peach.

Innocent Lies. Games That Lovers Play. Funny Bones. Don't Just Lie There, Say Something.

Curse of the Pink Panther. The Breaking of Bumbo. Up In Town. A Rather English Marriage.

Sapphire and Steel. The New Avengers. Coronation Street.