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Dorothy Lamour was an American motion picture actress, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, died in Hollywood, California. Lamour was born Mary Leta Dorothy Slaton to John Wilson Slaton and Carmen LaPorte; Lamour came from a variation of the name of her step-father, Carlo Lambour. 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. She first attracted some attention singing with the band of Herbie Kay, who became her first husband. In 1935, she had her own fifteen-minute weekly musical program on NBC Radio. She ... sang on the popular Rudy Vallee radio show.
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Dorothy Lamour will always be most remembered for her great beauty, her trademark sarongs, and for her role in Paramount's Road movies alongside Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. Lamour was ... a talented singer, though. Her recordings and the musical numbers in her many films helped make her one of the top box office draws of the 1930s and 1940s.
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From All Movie Guide: American actress/singer Dorothy Lamour graduated from Spencer Business College, after spending a few teen years as an elevator operator in her home town of New Orleans. By 1930, she'd turned her back on the business world and was performing in the Fanchon and Marco vaudeville troupe. In 1931, she became vocalist for the Herbie Kay Band, and soon afterward married (briefly) Kay. In the years just prior to her film debut, Lamour built up a solid reputation as a radio singer, notably on the 1934 series Dreamer of Songs. Paramount Pictures signed Lamour to a contract in 1936, creating an exotic southseas image for the young actress: she wore her fabled sarong for the first time in Jungle Princess (1936), the first of three nonsensical but high-grossing "jungle" films in which the ingenuous island girl asked her leading man what a kiss was. A more prestigious "sarong" role came about in Goldwyn's The Hurricane (1937), wherein Lamour, ever the trouper, withstood tons of water being thrust upon her in the climactic tempest of the film's title. A major star by 1939, Lamour had developed enough onscreen self awareness to amusingly kid her image in St. Louis Blues (1939), in which she played a jaded movie star who balked at playing any more southseas parts.
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GLAMOUR GIRL AT HOME – Dorothy Lamour, the glamorous brunette siren who skyrocketed from an unknown to stardom on the silver screen in one year, lives more quietly than any other star in Hollywood. She still lives in the same apartment she rented when she first came to Hollywood but has re-furnished and re-decorated it to suit her own tastes. She occasionally entertains a few close friends at home but explains she is kept so busy that she doesn't have time to entertain widely. At present, she is busy in 'The Big Broadcast of 1938' with W.C. Fields and Martha Raye (WCFTR clipping file: Lamour).
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Dorothy Lamour was born with the birth name of Mary Leta Dorothy Slaton on December 10, 1914, in New Orleans, Louisiana. She was a beautiful child who turned heads as a teenager with her long dark hair. However, her dreams were to become a professional singer not acting. After she won a beauty contest as Miss New Orleans in 1931, she headed to Chicago to find her work as a singer. For a while Dorothy worked as an elevator operator in a department store before going on to become a vocalist in the Herbie Kay band. Kay would become her first husband in 1935, but the marriage would only last four years.
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Synopsis: At the last possible moment, convicted murderess Anne Marie St. Claire (Dorothy Lamour) is saved from execution. However, the newspapers have reported that Anne Marie is dead. She decides to use her status as a "corpse" to her advantage, leading to several amusing and melodramatic complicationsRead More
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