Dorothy Lamour

She is interred in the Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. In 2004, she signed a contract with Menudo creator Edgardo Diaz, who is now in charge of her singing career. Dororthy Lamour died at her home in North Hollywood, California at the age of 81. She has been nominated for the Grammy twice. 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). Lujan went back on tour in 2003. She appeared in a series of road movies with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope in the 1940s and 1950s. She also has made a couple of cd's and has announced plans to move to Russia in the future to study theater there.

While she first achieved stardom as a sex symbol, Lamour also showed talent as both a comic and dramatic actress. She later made a few other soap operas and such television shows as El Diario De Daniela. She wore a sarong, which would become associated with her, and captivated many viewers with her sensuous exotic attractive appearance. Lujan travelled Latin America extensely as a consequence of her popularity after that opera, and went to places like Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Colombia and Argentina. The role that made her a star was Ulah (a sort of female Tarzan) in The Jungle Princess (1936). Daniela and Cuban actor Cesar Evora shot into international fame in 1997 with a soap opera named Luz Clarita, where Daniela played the main character, seven year old Luz Clarita, and Evora played her father. In 1936 she moved to Hollywood and began appearing regularly in films for Paramount Pictures, first in bit parts. Daniela Lujan (born 1988) is a Mexican actress who has participated in several telenovelas.

She also sang on the popular Rudy Vallee radio show. She got a job singing with the band of Herbie Kay, who became her first husband. 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. Lamour's birth name was Mary Leta Dorothy Slaton; Lamour came from the name of her step-father.

Dorothy Lamour (December 10, 1914 - September 22, 1996) was a motion picture actress, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, died in Hollywood, California. "Glamour is just sex that got civilized.".