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Monday, November 06, 2006
Dorothy Lamour
Dorothy Kaumeyer
1914 - 1996 (heart attack)
American born New Orleans, Luisiana
Nickname The beautiful one, The Sarong Girl, Dottie . Height 5' 5" (1.65 m) . In addition to being Miss New Orleans in 1931, Dorothy Lamour worked as a Chicago elevator operator, band vocalist (for her first husband, bandleader Herbie Kaye) and radio performer. In 1936 she donned her soon-to-be-famous sarong for her debut at Paramount, The Jungle Princess (1936), and continued to play a female Tarzan-Crusoe Gauguin-girl-with make-up through the war years and beyond. The most famous of these was in the Bob Hope/Bing Crosby "Road to ..." movies - a strange combination of adventure, slapstick, ad-libs and Hollywood inside jokes that became very popular. Of these she said, "I was the happiest and highest-paid straight woman in the business." As she aged, however, the quality of her films dropped. Among her serious films were Johnny Apollo (1940) and A Medal for Benny (1945). Spouse William Ross Howard III (7 April 1943 - 1978) (his death) 2 children, Herbie Kaye (10 May 1935 - 21 April 1939) (divorced).
Creepshow 2 (1987) , "Murder, She Wrote" (1987), "Crazy Like a Fox" (1986) , "Hart to Hart" (1984) , "The Love Boat" (1980) , Death at Love House (1976) , Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976) , "Marcus Welby, M.D." (1971) , "Love, American Style" (1970) , "The Name of the Game" (1969) , "I Spy" (1967) , Pajama Party (1964) , "Burke's Law" (1964) , Donovan's Reef (1963) , "The Steve Allen Show" (1957), "Damon Runyon Theater" (1955) , "Hollywood Opening Night" (1952) , Road to Bali (1952) , The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) , Manhandled (1949) , Slightly French (1949) , The Lucky Stiff (1949) , The Girl from Manhattan (1948) , Lulu Belle (1948) , On Our Merry Way (1948) , Road to Rio (1947) , Wild Harvest (1947) , My Favorite Brunette (1947) , Road to Utopia (1946) , Masquerade in Mexico (1945) , A Medal for Benny (1945) , Rainbow Island (1944) , And the Angels Sing (1944) , Riding High (1943) , Dixie (1943) , They Got Me Covered (1943), Road to Morocco (1942) , Beyond the Blue Horizon (1942) , The Fleet's In (1942) , Aloma of the South Seas (1941) , Caught in the Draft (1941) , Road to Zanzibar (1941) , Chad Hanna (1940) , Moon Over Burma (1940) , Typhoon (1940) , Johnny Apollo (1940) , Road to Singapore (1940) , Disputed Passage (1939) , Man About Town (1939) , St. Louis Blues (1939) , Spawn of the North (1938) , Tropic Holiday (1938) , Her Jungle Love (1938) , The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938) , Thrill of a Lifetime (1937) , The Hurricane (1937) , High, Wide, and Handsome (1937) , The Last Train from Madrid (1937) , Swing High, Swing Low (1937) , The Jungle Princess (1936) , College Holiday (1936) , The Stars Can't Be Wrong (1936) , Footlight Parade (1933)