Dorothy Dell

Dorothy Dell was interred in Metairie Cemetery, in New Orleans, Louisana. Evans has three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (TV, Movie, Song). Dell was killed instantly and Wagner died several hours later. In addition to a series of successful TV shows, over 30 movies, and 200 songs, Evans wrote the well known songs "Happy Trails" and "The Bible Tells Me So". On their way to Pasadena their vehicle was involved in an accident. Her life inspired Evans to write her best-seller "Angel Unawares". In 1934 she attended a party in Altadena, California with Dr Carl Wagner, to whom she was reported to have become engaged. Rogers and Evans had one child, Robin Elizabeth, who died of complications of Down's Syndrome shortly before her second birthday.

Paramount scheduled her to play opposite Gary Cooper and Shirley Temple in Now and Forever in what was to have been her first major starring role as a romantic lead. Rogers and Evans were a team on screen and off from 1946 until Rogers death in 1998. Her next film Shoot the Works led to comparisons with Mae West, and her rendition of the ballad "With My Eyes Wide Open, I'm Dreaming" in the film became a hit record. Rogers ended the deception regarding Tommy. Her most important and substantial role followed in the Shirley Temple film Little Miss Marker. Evans married Roy Rogers on New Years Eve 1946. The film was a success and the reviews for Dell were favourable; Paramount began to consider her as a potential star. This deception continued through her divorce from Butts in 1945, and her development as a cow-girl co-star to Roy Rogers at Republic studios.

She won her first film role over such established contenders as Mae Clarke and Isabel Jewell and made her debut in Wharf Angel (1934). During her time at 20th Century Fox, the studio promoted her as the unmarried supporter of her teenage "brother" Tommy, actually her son Tom Fox, Jr. She moved to Hollywood in 1933 and was signed to a contract by Paramount Studios. After beginning her career singing at the radio station where she was employed as a secretary, Evans had a productive career as a jazz, swing and big band singer which lead to a screen test and contract with 20th Century Fox studios. During this time she was closely associated with Russ Colombo and her celebrity status was elevated by the media attention she received while denying rumours of an impending marriage. She married her accompianist and arranger Robert Dale Butts in 1935. In 1931 she moved to New York to appear on Broadway in the Ziegfeld Follies, and followed this success with her role in the production of Tattle Tales in 1933. She took the name Dale Evans in the early 1930's to promote her singing career.

With this success she established a successful vaudeville act. Divorced in 1929 at 17, she married August Wayne Johns that same year until her divorce from him in 1933. She began entering and winning beauty pageants and at the age of fifteen won the title of "Miss New Orleans". at 15. Born Dorothy Dell Goff in Hattiesburg, Mississippi to entertainers, she spent much of her childhood in New Orleans, Louisiana. She bore one son, Thomas Fox, Jr. Dorothy Dell (January 30, 1915 – June 8, 1934) was an American film actress. Fox at 14.

Lamour also won the title of "Miss New Orleans" in 1931, succeeding her friend Dell who had won the title the previous year. Evans had a tumultuous early life, eloping with her first husband Thomas F. Dorothy Lamour, a childhood friend of Dell, credited Dell as the person responsible for the beginning of her own film career. Lucille Wood Smith name changed in infancy to Frances Octavia Smith famous as Dale Evans (31 October 1912 - 7 February 2001) was a prolific writer, movie star, singer/songwriter and the wife of singing cowboy Roy Rogers. Her final role in "Now and Forever" was taken by Carole Lombard, and provided Lombard with one of her earliest significant successes.