Dorothy Lamour

She is interred in the Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6777 Hollywood Blvd. Dororthy Lamour died at her home in North Hollywood, California at the age of 81. She made a small comeback in the 1980s with roles in Ragtime and in Reds. 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 career came to a quick halt soon after that, however, and she moved to the United Kingdom, where she had very small roles in several films. She appeared in a series of road movies with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope in the 1940s and 1950s. She was able to successfully transition to talkies, and in 1929 she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Broadway Melody.

While she first achieved stardom as a sex symbol, Lamour also showed talent as both a comic and dramatic actress. She performed the Charleston in the movie The King on Main Street in 1925. She wore a sarong, which would become associated with her, and captivated many viewers with her sensuous exotic attractive appearance. As her roles got larger, so did her popularity. The role that made her a star was Ulah (a sort of female Tarzan) in The Jungle Princess (1936). She was selected one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1922. In 1936 she moved to Hollywood and began appearing regularly in films for Paramount Pictures, first in bit parts. Griffith, who gave her a small part in Intolerance in 1916.

She also sang on the popular Rudy Vallee radio show. When the family needed money, her mother sent her to Biograph Studios, where she met D.W. She got a job singing with the band of Herbie Kay, who became her first husband. Born Juanita Horton in Midland, Texas, she moved with her family to Hollywood when she was young. 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. Bessie Love (September 10, 1898 - April 26, 1986) was an American actress. 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.".