Dorothy Lamour

She is interred in the Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. She died from a stroke while undergoing treatment for colon cancer in Los Angeles at the age of 81. Dororthy Lamour died at her home in North Hollywood, California at the age of 81. They are located at 1724 Vine Street and 6821 Hollywood Blvd. 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). The second woman to be admitted to the Director's Guild (Dorothy Arzner was first), Ida Lupino has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to the fields of television and motion pictures. She appeared in a series of road movies with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope in the 1940s and 1950s. These all ended in divorce.

While she first achieved stardom as a sex symbol, Lamour also showed talent as both a comic and dramatic actress. Lupino was married three times: to actor Howard Duff with whom she had one daughter, as well as producer Collier Young and actor Louis Hayward. She wore a sarong, which would become associated with her, and captivated many viewers with her sensuous exotic attractive appearance. After guest starring in TV shows such as Charlie's Angels and Barnaby Jones, she made her final film appearance in 1978 and retired. The role that made her a star was Ulah (a sort of female Tarzan) in The Jungle Princess (1936). She continued acting throughout the '50s, '60s and '70s and her directing efforts during these years were almost exclusively television productions such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Twilight Zone, The Donna Reed Show, Gilligan's Island, The Untouchables, The Fugitive, and Bewitched. In 1936 she moved to Hollywood and began appearing regularly in films for Paramount Pictures, first in bit parts. She directed Outrage in 1950 and tackled the contraversial subject of rape.

She also sang on the popular Rudy Vallee radio show. From the early '50s she began directing films, mostly melodramas and was one of the few women of her era to achieve success in this field. She got a job singing with the band of Herbie Kay, who became her first husband. Lupino often joked that if she had been the "poor man's Bette Davis", then she had become the "poor man's Don Siegel". 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. Her first directing job came when Elmer Clifton became ill during Not Wanted, a 1949 movie which she co-wrote. Lamour's birth name was Mary Leta Dorothy Slaton; Lamour came from the name of her step-father. It was during a suspension in the late '40s that she began studying the processes behind the camera.

Dorothy Lamour (December 10, 1914 - September 22, 1996) was a motion picture actress, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, died in Hollywood, California. In 1947, Lupino left Warner Brothers to become a freelance actress. "Glamour is just sex that got civilized.". She acted regularly and was in demand throughout the 40s without becoming a major star. During this period she became known for her hard boiled roles and appeared in such films as They Drive By Night (1940) and High Sierra (1941). While working for Warner Brothers, she would also refuse parts that Davis had rejected, and earned herself suspensions.

Her parts improved during the '40s and she began to describe herself as "the poor man's Bette Davis". It was after her appearance in The Light That Failed in 1939 that she was taken seriously as a dramatic actress. Encouraged to enter show business by both her parents, Lupino made her first film appearance in 1933, in Her First Affaire and worked for several years playing unsubstantial roles. She was born in London, England, (allegedly under a table during a World War I zeppelin raid), the daughter of music hall entertainer Stanley Lupino.

Ida Lupino (February 4, 1914 – August 3, 1995) was a film actress and director, widely considered a pioneer in the field of women filmmakers.