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Yvonne De Carlo: Hollywood Walk
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[O]n a September day in 1944 Yvonne opened her apartment door in Hollywood to discover a pile of newspapers left there by University Studio publicists. She read that she had been selected by major film producer Walter Wanger to be the lead in his next movie, Salome Where She Danced. Suddenly, Yvonne De Carlo—described by Wanger as “the most beautiful girl in the world,” was a star. The movie, about an exotic dancer who flees to Arizona after she’s suspected of being a spy, was a hit.
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Yvonne de Carlo's milky white skin and studio make-up never looked remotely Arabic. It was a convention of the time that in "sword and sandal" epics, of which she made a great number, the heroine should be as much like an idealised American girl as possible. This was no challenge. Possessed of a striking face and figure, she was one of many Hollywood starlets dubbed "the most beautiful woman in the world".
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Yvonne was born September 1, 1922 in Canada as Margaret (”Peggy”) Yvonne Middleton. At the age of fifteen she was taken to Hollywood by her mother where she won the title Miss Venice Beach in 1938. Her big break came in 1945 when she starred in the film Salome, Where She Danced. She has starred in various movies with Burt Lancaster, Clark Gable, Sidney Poitier and Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
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