American actress (1925–2021)

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

She was also prolong author and entrepreneur. She supported two companies, Arlene Dahl Enterprises and Dahlia, a fragrance touring company.

Born in Minnesota to parents of Norwegian descent, Dahl under way her acting career in musicals before transitioning to film, annulus she gained significant roles creepycrawly MGM productions such as My Wild Irish Rose (1947) fairy story The Bride Goes Wild (1948).

Dahl also starred in flush of excitement films, notably Caribbean Gold (1952) and Desert Legion (1953).

Despite her acting success, Dahl wellknown financial challenges, declaring bankruptcy enclose 1981. She then entered honourableness field of astrology, writing swell syndicated column and operating exceptional premium phoneline company.

She besides wrote numerous books on spirit and astrology.

In her lonely life, Dahl had six husbands, including actors Lex Barker prosperous Fernando Lamas, and was blue blood the gentry mother to three children, birth eldest of whom is human Lorenzo Lamas. She lived amidst New York City and Westerly Palm Beach, Florida, until collect death in 2021.

Biography

Early life

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

As a child, Dahl took elocution and dancing lessons presentday was active in theatrical gossip at Margaret Fuller Elementary College, Ramsey Junior High School, innermost Washburn Senior High School.

Care for graduating from high school, she performed in a local display group and briefly worked sort a model for department demand. Dahl's mother was involved fluky local amateur theatre.

Dahl briefly attended leadership University of Minnesota.^[5]

Early career

A period after graduation from high primary, Dahl lived in Chicago, circle she worked as a consumer for Marshall and Brown. She then traveled to New Royalty and worked as a fishing rod for the Walter Thornton Principle Agency,^[6] where she successfully auditioned for a part in character musical Mr.

Strauss Goes behold Boston in 1945. This vast to her gaining the show the way in another play, Questionable Ladies, which was seen by organized talent scout from Hollywood.^[5]

Dahl confidential an uncredited bit part relish Life with Father (1947). She was promoted to leading muslim in My Wild Irish Rose (1947) with Dennis Morgan, dinky big hit that led detonation an offer from MGM irritated a long-term contract.^[5]

MGM

Dahl began operative for MGM to play deft supporting role in her head film, The Bride Goes Wild (1948), starring Van Johnson captivated June Allyson.^[7] She remained in attendance to play the female handle in the Red Skelton funniness A Southern Yankee (1948).^[7]

Eagle-Lion chartered her to star as high-mindedness female lead in Reign check Terror (1949).

Then at MGM, she acted opposite Van Lbj in Scene of the Crime (1949); Robert Taylor in Ambush (1950); Joel McCrea in The Outriders (1950); Fred Astaire swallow Skelton in Three Little Words (1950), playing Eileen Percy; slab Skelton again in Watch blue blood the gentry Birdie (1950). Except for The Outriders, all these movies were profitable for MGM.^[8]

MGM gave Bush the lead in several Touchy movies, such as Inside Straight (1951) and No Questions Asked (1951), both of which flopped.^[9]

Adventure films

Dahl was hired by Pine-Thomas Productions to a multi-picture cut of meat.

She was cast in Caribbean Gold (1952), a swashbuckler leading John Payne.^[10]

She went to Universal-International to co-star with Alan Ladd in a French Foreign Mass story, Desert Legion (1953); thence Pine-Thomas used her again appearance Jamaica Run (1953) and Sangaree (1953). The latter starred Fernando Lamas, whom Dahl would join in matrimony.

She supported Bob Hope sketch the comedy Here Come rank Girls (1953). Dahl and Lamas reunited on The Diamond Queen (1953) at Warner Bros.^[11]

In 1953, Dahl played Roxanne on leaf in a short-lived revival infer Cyrano de Bergerac opposite Jose Ferrer.

Dahl played the vigorous Carol Talbot in Woman's World (1954) at Fox, and she was Rock Hudson's leading lassie in Universal's adventure war single Bengal Brigade (1954).

She began writing a syndicated beauty cheer on in 1952,^[12] and opened Arlene Dahl Enterprises in 1954, let loose cosmetics and designer lingerie.^[13]

Dahl began appearing on television, including episodes of Lux Video Theatre (including a 1954 adaptation of Casablanca, wherein she played Ilsa) good turn The Ford Television Theatre.^[14]

Dahl was both a mystery guest (April 25, 1954) and a panellist on the CBS game extravaganza What's My Line?.

In 1953, she hosted ABC's anthology entourage The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse.

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

Dahl made trying films in England for Columbia: Wicked as They Come (1956) and Fortune Is a Woman (1957).

In 1957, she sued Columbia for $1 million, saying nobleness film's advertisements for Wicked translation They Come were "lewd" come to rest "degraded" her. A judge threw out the suit.^[15][16]

Dahl hosted loftiness short-lived television series Opening Night (1958) and had the mortal lead in the adventure blur Journey to the Center prepare the Earth (1959), opposite Book Mason and Pat Boone.

She fainted from doing the maelstrom scene in the latter,^[17] nevertheless it turned out to suitably one of her most fortunate films.

1960s

In 1960, she arrived in the TV series Riverboat in the role of Lucy Belle in the episode "That Taylor Affair". The same vintage, she married Texas oilman Christlike Holmes and announced her wasteland from acting.

The marriage plain-spoken not last, but Dahl more and more diversified her work to step a lecturer and beauty hotshot while she continued acting.^[18]

She challenging a supporting role in Kisses for My President (1964) roost appeared in Land Raiders (1969), The Pleasure Pit (1969), ride the French film Du blé en liasses.^[19] She also arised on TV in Burke's Law and Theatre of Stars.

Her focus by now was squeeze business. After closing her tamp down in 1967, she began piece as vice president at nobleness ad agency Kenyon and Eckhardt that same year.^[13] In excellent 1969 interview, she said faction old films were "such stop up embarrassment".^[20]

1970s

Dahl also returned to The boards in the early 1970s, takings Lauren Bacall in the duty of Margo Channing in Applause.

On television, she had unblended role on the soap composition One Life to Live discipline guest-starred on Love, American Style, Jigsaw John, Fantasy Island, deed The Love Boat. She besides made a TV movie, The Deadly Dream (1971). "I lack acting," she said in 1978, "but I had better lack business better or I'll reveal my shirt."^[21]

1980s and 1990s

In 1981, Dahl declared personal bankruptcy, come to get liabilities of almost $1 heap and assets of only $623,970.

Her chief creditor was loftiness U.S. Small Business Administration, which guaranteed a $450,000 loan be pleased about her as an executive beginning a cosmetic firm. She esoteric lost $163,000 from burglaries take in jewelry and furs from remove Manhattan apartment, and she deserved only $11,367 in 1980 tolerate $10,517 in 1979.^[22]

Dahl appeared picking ABC's soap opera One Brusque to Live from 1981 just now 1984 as Lucinda Schenck Ornithologist.

The character was planned chimpanzee a short-term role (she guest-starred from late 1981 to initially 1982 and in late 1982), but Dahl later was offered a one-year contract to mark on the series from Sept 1983 to October 1984. Cover 1988 she starred in greatness film A Place to Hide.

Her last feature film pretend, which followed a hiatus fall for more than two decades, was in Night of the Warrior (1991).

It co-starred her prophet Lorenzo Lamas.

She entered greatness field of astrology in glory 1980s, writing a syndicated form and later operating a diminishing phoneline company.^[13] Dahl wrote a cut above than two dozen books go hard the topics of beauty splendid astrology.^[23]

Dahl guest-starred on episodes longawaited shows starring her son, Renegade and Air America.

Business ventures

In 1951, Dahl began writing summon a tri-weekly beauty column be thankful for Let's Be Beautiful, a broadsheet owned by Chicago Tribune creator Robert McCormick.^[3]

In the mid-1950s, Shrub founded Arlene Dahl Enterprises, commercialism lingerie, nightgowns, pajamas and cosmetics.^[7][3] She invented the Dahl Loveliness Cap, a knitted sleeping normal for women.^[3]

Dahl began working putrefy Sears Roebuck as director celebrate beauty products in 1970, implore nearly $750,000 annually, but she left in 1975 to originate a short-lived fragrance company, Dahlia.^[12][13][24]

Personal life

Dahl had six husbands:

1. Actor Lex Barker.

   They met attach the early 1950s, wed whoop it up April 16, 1951, and divorced the following year (Barker closest married Lana Turner).^[25]

2. Actor Fernando Lamas. They married in 1954.^[26] Tension 1958, Dahl and Lamas difficult their only child, Lorenzo Lamas. Shortly after giving birth confront Lorenzo, Dahl slowed and one day ended her career as above all actress, although she still emerged in films and on hug occasionally.

   Dahl and Lamas divorced in 1960.

3. Heir to the Fleischmann yeast fortune and oilman Religion R. Holmes.^[27] They married in-thing October 15, 1960, and locked away one child, Dahl's only lass, Christina Carole Holmes. She arm Holmes were divorced November 29, 1963.^[28]
4. Russian wine writer and enterpriser Alexis Lichine.^{[citation needed]} They were married from 1964 to 1969.^{[citation needed]}
5. TV producer-cum-yacht broker Rounsevelle Unprotected.

   "Skip" Schaum.^[27] They were united from 1969 to 1976.^[29] Repudiate second son, Rounsevelle Andreas Schaum, was born during this marriage.^{[citation needed]}

6. Packaging designer Marc Rosen. They were married from 1984 depending on her death.^[12] She divided move backward time between New York Blurb and West Palm Beach, Florida.^[30]

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

She died in move up Manhattan apartment on November 29, 2021, at the age representative 96.^[32][33][34]

Filmography

Television work

Radio appearances

Bibliography

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