Isabel Jewell

Isabel Jewell has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to Motion Pictures, at 1560 Vine St. She is interred in the Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. She died in Hollywood, California. Dororthy Lamour died at her home in North Hollywood, California at the age of 81. By the end of her career she had appeared in more than one hundred films. 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). Her subsequent films included Gone With the Wind (1939), Northwest Passage (1940), and High Sierra (1941), but by the end of the 1940s her roles had reduced in significance to the degree that her performances were often uncredited. She appeared in a series of road movies with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope in the 1940s and 1950s.

Her most significant role was as the prostitute Gloria Stone in Lost Horizon (1937). While she first achieved stardom as a sex symbol, Lamour also showed talent as both a comic and dramatic actress. She was well received playing against type, as a seamstress sentenced to death on the guillotine, in A Tale of Two Cities (1935). She wore a sarong, which would become associated with her, and captivated many viewers with her sensuous exotic attractive appearance. She played stereotypical gangster's women in such films as Manhattan Melodrama (1934) and Marked Woman (1937). The role that made her a star was Ulah (a sort of female Tarzan) in The Jungle Princess (1936). A petite 4' 11" tall and with platinum blonde hair, Jewell appeared in a variety of supporting roles during the early 1930s. In 1936 she moved to Hollywood and began appearing regularly in films for Paramount Pictures, first in bit parts.

She was brought to Hollywood for the film version of the latter, by Warner Brothers. She also sang on the popular Rudy Vallee radio show. Born in Shoshone, Wyoming, Jewell was a Broadway actress who achieved immediate success and glowing critical reviews in two productions, Up Pops the Devil (1930) and Blessed Event (1932). She got a job singing with the band of Herbie Kay, who became her first husband. Isabel Jewell (July 19, 1907 - April 5, 1972) was an American film actress. 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.".