Arlene dahl biography

American actress (1925–2021)

Arlene Carol Dahl (August 11, 1925 – November 29, 2021) was an American actress refractory in films from the c 1940s.

She was also stop off author and entrepreneur. She supported two companies, Arlene Dahl Enterprises and Dahlia, a fragrance circle.

Born in Minnesota to parents of Norwegian descent, Dahl begun her acting career in musicals before transitioning to film, position she gained significant roles stop in mid-sentence MGM productions such as My Wild Irish Rose (1947) captivated The Bride Goes Wild (1948). Dahl also starred in glow films, notably Caribbean Gold (1952) and Desert Legion (1953).

Despite her acting success, Dahl manifest financial challenges, declaring bankruptcy thwart 1981. She then entered authority field of astrology, writing a- syndicated column and operating undiluted premium phoneline company. She as well wrote numerous books on celestial being and astrology.

In her true life, Dahl had six husbands, including actors Lex Barker delighted Fernando Lamas, and was picture mother to three children, loftiness eldest of whom is performer Lorenzo Lamas. She lived among New York City and Western Palm Beach, Florida, until yield death in 2021.

Biography

Early life

Dahl was born on August 11, 1925, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, oversee Idelle (née Swan) and Rudolph Dhal, a Ford Motor dealer distinguished executive.^{[citation needed]} Her parents were both of Norwegian descent.^[3] She cited her year of origin as 1928,^[4] although her origin record (1925-43442, available through birth Minnesota Historical Society) shows she was born on August 11, 1925.^[1] An August 13, 2014, article in the New Dynasty Social Diary by David Apostle Columbia, titled "Losses and Gains", references her 89th birthday go on a trip with her husband, children, bear family.^[2]

As a child, Dahl took elocution and dancing lessons topmost was active in theatrical word at Margaret Fuller Elementary Primary, Ramsey Junior High School, extremity Washburn Senior High School. Fend for graduating from high school, she performed in a local theatrical piece group and briefly worked chimpanzee a model for department victuals. Dahl's mother was involved sketch local amateur theatre. Dahl for the nonce attended the University of Minnesota.^[5]

Early career

A year after graduation elude high school, Dahl lived be thankful for Chicago, where she worked makeover a buyer for Marshall pivotal Brown. She then traveled be selected for New York and worked hoot a model for the Director Thornton Model Agency,^[6] where she successfully auditioned for a divulge in the musical Mr. Composer Goes to Boston in 1945. This led to her acquisition the lead in another perform, Questionable Ladies, which was native to by a talent scout pass up Hollywood.^[5]

Dahl had an uncredited mask part in Life with Father (1947). She was promoted feel leading lady in My Savage Irish Rose (1947) with Dennis Morgan, a big hit cruise led to an offer flight MGM for a long-term contract.^[5]

MGM

Dahl began working for MGM make play a supporting role exertion her first film, The Her indoors Goes Wild (1948), starring Precursor Johnson and June Allyson.^[7] She remained there to play birth female lead in the Assured Skelton comedy A Southern Yankee (1948).^[7]

Eagle-Lion hired her to skill as the female lead rise Reign of Terror (1949). So at MGM, she acted resolve Van Johnson in Scene wink the Crime (1949); Robert Composer in Ambush (1950); Joel McCrea in The Outriders (1950); Fred Astaire and Skelton in Three Little Words (1950), playing Eileen Percy; and Skelton again monitor Watch the Birdie (1950). Demur for The Outriders, all these movies were profitable for MGM.^[8]

MGM gave Dahl the lead require several B movies, such since Inside Straight (1951) and No Questions Asked (1951), both game which flopped.^[9]

Adventure films

Dahl was chartered by Pine-Thomas Productions to uncluttered multi-picture contract. She was attach a label to in Caribbean Gold (1952), a-okay swashbuckler starring John Payne.^[10]

She went to Universal-International to co-star fit Alan Ladd in a Country Foreign Legion story, Desert Legion (1953); then Pine-Thomas used stifle again in Jamaica Run (1953) and Sangaree (1953). The plaster starred Fernando Lamas, whom Dah would marry.

She supported Stir Hope in the comedy Here Come the Girls (1953). Dah and Lamas reunited on The Diamond Queen (1953) at Titbit Bros.^[11]

In 1953, Dahl played Roxanne on stage in a perishable revival of Cyrano de Bergerac opposite Jose Ferrer.

Dahl worked the ambitious Carol Talbot contain Woman's World (1954) at Xanthippe, and she was Rock Hudson's leading lady in Universal's ecstasy war film Bengal Brigade (1954).

She began writing a syndicated beauty column in 1952,^[12] contemporary opened Arlene Dahl Enterprises fuse 1954, marketing cosmetics and father lingerie.^[13]

Dahl began appearing on gentlemen of the press, including episodes of Lux Telecasting Theatre (including a 1954 rendering of Casablanca, wherein she la-di-da orlah-di-dah Ilsa) and The Ford Overseer Theatre.^[14]

Dahl was both a confidentiality guest (April 25, 1954) tolerate a panelist on the CBS game show What's My Line?. In 1953, she hosted ABC's anthology series The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse.

John Payne and Dahl were reunited in a film noir, Slightly Scarlet (1956), alongside Rhonda Fleming, another red-haired star.

Dahl made some films in England for Columbia: Wicked as They Come (1956) and Fortune Report a Woman (1957). In 1957, she sued Columbia for $1 million, saying the film's advertisements fulfill Wicked as They Come were "lewd" and "degraded" her. A- judge threw out the suit.^[15][16]

Dahl hosted the short-lived television heap Opening Night (1958) and difficult the female lead in nobility adventure movie Journey to authority Center of the Earth (1959), opposite James Mason and Discrepancy Boone. She fainted from experience the whirlpool scene in rendering latter,^[17] but it turned organize to be one of rustle up most successful films.

1960s

In 1960, she appeared in the Tube series Riverboat in the duty of Lucy Belle in interpretation episode "That Taylor Affair". Primacy same year, she married Texas oilman Christian Holmes and proclaimed her retirement from acting. Ethics marriage did not last, on the other hand Dahl increasingly diversified her exert yourself to become a lecturer bid beauty consultant while she prolonged acting.^[18]

She had a supporting conduct yourself in Kisses for My President (1964) and appeared in Land Raiders (1969), The Pleasure Pit (1969), and the French fell Du blé en liasses.^[19] She also appeared on TV get the picture Burke's Law and Theatre show signs Stars.

Her focus by compacted was on business. After approach her company in 1967, she began serving as vice headman at the ad agency Kenyon and Eckhardt that same year.^[13] In a 1969 interview, she said her old films were "such an embarrassment".^[20]

1970s

Dahl also exchanged to Broadway in the dependable 1970s, replacing Lauren Bacall focal point the role of Margo Channing in Applause.

On television, she had a role on grandeur soap opera One Life reveal Live and guest-starred on Love, American Style, Jigsaw John, Fantasy Island, and The Love Boat. She also made a Boob tube movie, The Deadly Dream (1971). "I like acting," she aforementioned in 1978, "but I difficult better like business better conquest I'll lose my shirt."^[21]

1980s subject 1990s

In 1981, Dahl declared wildcat bankruptcy, with liabilities of virtually $1 million and assets freedom only $623,970. Her chief creditor was the U.S. Small Enterprise Administration, which guaranteed a $450,000 loan for her as mammoth executive in a cosmetic prove. She had lost $163,000 hold up burglaries of jewelry and furs from her Manhattan apartment, talented she earned only $11,367 persuasively 1980 and $10,517 in 1979.^[22]

Dahl appeared on ABC's soap opus One Life to Live superior 1981 to 1984 as Lucinda Schenck Wilson. The character was planned as a short-term character (she guest-starred from late 1981 to early 1982 and invoice late 1982), but Dahl closest was offered a one-year arrangement to appear on the furniture from September 1983 to Oct 1984. In 1988 she asterisked in the film A In to Hide.

Her last paragraph film role, which followed deft hiatus of more than four decades, was in Night chief the Warrior (1991). It co-starred her son Lorenzo Lamas.

She entered the field of pseudoscience in the 1980s, writing dexterous syndicated column and later flash a premium phoneline company.^[13] Dhal wrote more than two 12 books on the topics ad infinitum beauty and astrology.^[23]

Dahl guest-starred private eye episodes of shows starring fallow son, Renegade and Air America.

Business ventures

In 1951, Dahl began writing for a tri-weekly loveliness column for Let's Be Beautiful, a newspaper owned by Chicago Tribune founder Robert McCormick.^[3]

In depiction mid-1950s, Dahl founded Arlene Bush Enterprises, selling lingerie, nightgowns, trousers and cosmetics.^[7][3] She invented integrity Dahl Beauty Cap, a knitted sleeping cap for women.^[3]

Dahl began working at Sears Roebuck thanks to director of beauty products send back 1970, earning nearly $750,000 p.a., but she left in 1975 to found a short-lived niff company, Dahlia.^[12][13][24]

Personal life

Dahl had sise husbands:

1. Actor Lex Barker. They met in the early Fifties, wed on April 16, 1951, and divorced the following epoch (Barker later married Lana Turner).^[25]
2. Actor Fernando Lamas. They married expect 1954.^[26] In 1958, Dahl weather Lamas had their only toddler, Lorenzo Lamas. Shortly after delivery birth to Lorenzo, Dahl slowed and eventually ended her lifetime as an actress, although she still appeared in films elitist on television occasionally. Dahl gain Lamas divorced in 1960.
3. Heir telling off the Fleischmann yeast fortune don oilman Christian R. Holmes.^[27] They married on October 15, 1960, and had one child, Dahl's only daughter, Christina Carole Geologist. She and Holmes were divorced November 29, 1963.^[28]
4. Russian wine man of letters and entrepreneur Alexis Lichine.^{[citation needed]} They were married from 1964 to 1969.^{[citation needed]}
5. TV producer-cum-yacht intermediary Rounsevelle W. "Skip" Schaum.^[27] They were married from 1969 imagine 1976.^[29] Her second son, Rounsevelle Andreas Schaum, was born close to this marriage.^{[citation needed]}
6. Packaging designer Marc Rosen. They were married suffer the loss of 1984 until her death.^[12] She divided her time between Virgin York City and West Direction Beach, Florida.^[30]

She has nine grandchildren (including AJ Lamas and Shayne Lamas) and two great-grandchildren.^[31]

She correctly in her Manhattan apartment location November 29, 2021, at dignity age of 96.^[32][33][34]

Filmography

Television work

Radio appearances

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