Dorothy Lamour's biography

Mary Leta Dorothy Slaton is 82 years old actor born at New Orleans. She was born on Thursday 10th of December 1914. Dorothy is often nicknamed as Dottie, The Beautiful One, The Sarong Girl. According to year of birth 1914 she belongs to Greatest Generation. Birthday on 10th of December means she is Sagittarius. Sagittarius is a Fiery sign of Zodiac Belt. These people are highly learned and love to gain knowledge throughout their life.

She is white american. She is citizen of United States of America. Dorothy is roman catholic. Her primary profession is to be actor. You can know her also as singer, television actor, film actor, stage actor, screenwriter, radio personality. She is recently known as beauty pageant contestant.

Dorothy Lamour's career

Dorothy´s main focus is to be actor. Dorothy is famous thanks to Road to Singapore.

Is Dorothy Lamour gay ?

She is known to be straight.

How did Dorothy Lamour die

Dorothy died on on Sunday 22nd of September 1996 when he was 82 years old at Hollywood. Dorothy Lamours death was caused by heart attack. It happend like natural causes.

Awards and competitions

Dorothy Lamour's Awards

She was awarded 2 Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Motion Pictures at 6332 Hollywood Boulevard; and for Radio at 6240 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.

What Dorothy Lamour has done for a first time

In 1946 (with the full assistance of Paramount's publicity department), she staged a memorable stunt by publicly burning a sarong, the garment with which she had been associated since her first starring role.
Her stepson gave her a dog, CoCo, when her husband died. She did not want it at first, but he insisted. She soon learned to love the dog and referred to him as her boyfriend.
She opened the first of what was meant to be a chain of "Dorothy Lamour" beauty salons in New York's Greenwich Village in 1960, not far from where she had begun her nightclub career in the 1930s.

Dorothy Lamour's quotes

I made 60 motion pictures and only wore the sarong in about six pictures, but it did become a kind of trademark. And it did hinder me. They expect you to always be the young girl leaning against the palm tree. Why should you want to act?
[on working with Hope and Crosby] I felt like a wonderful sandwich, a slice of white bread between two slices of ham.
I was the happiest and highest-paid straight woman in the business.
[on Bing Crosby] As I look back, I think he was a very shy, insecure man. The world looked upon him as one of the great talents, he just never saw himself in that light.
I'm no prude. I know you have to come up a little bit modern. But all this filth and homosexuality and sex and nudity today are ruining any hope of our young people having the beautiful life.
Glamor is just sex that got civilized. A pretty girl, tastefully posed in a scant costume, is even a sort of cultural achievement.
After the first "Road" film, I never studied dialogue. Never. I'd wait to get on the set to see what they were planning. I was the happiest and highest paid straight woman in the business.
Some day I hope the critics will say of me, not only that I wear a sarong becomingly, but also that I gave a good performance. I've never had any real theatrical training you know.
[on the sarong] I thank God for that little strip of cloth.
[on her role in Creepshow 2 (1987)] Well, at my age you can't lean against a palm tree and sing "Moon of Monakoora." People would look at that and say, "What is she trying to do?"
I actually had only one possible shot at an Academy Award in Johnny Apollo (1940). . . . But I just didn't understand what I was doing. Now, I wish I had done summer stock for acting experience. Or didn't they have it in those days?
[on her "sarong queen" roles] I never lead white men astray improperly. Never wreck their lives or anything like that. I'm always a nice native girl. They can remember their warm tropical romances with me with refined wistful sighs.
[on The Road to Hong Kong (1962)] How dare they think they could have made a Road film without me!
They changed the script hourly. I just sat around and waited until Bob and Bing came up with some new lines for me. It was all rather chaotic, but it worked.
[on Bing Crosby] He was very introverted off the set and it was difficult to maintain a close relationship with him.
Making those sarong movies killed off any hopes I nurtured about being a great dramatic actress. Once I donned that flimsy piece of cloth, any hopes of carrying off an Oscar vanished.
[when asked if the sarong prevented her from getting better roles] I'm sure it did as I look back. But it didn't get in the way that much.
[1987] I never thought I was a great dramatic actress. I liked to do drama, but I was no Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. And now I do what I want to do.
[on The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)] I thought it terrible hokum when I watched the first assembled print. Boy, was I wrong! It cost $4 million, made $14 million, and certainly showed C.B. Cecil B. DeMille was the master showman of the movies.

Dorothy Lamour's height, body shape, eye color

Lets describe how Dorothy Lamour looks. We will focus on her height, body shape, eye color and hair color. Dorothy is tall as 5' 5" (165 cm). Body build is average. Her eyes are tinted hazel. Her hair is shade of black.

Dorothy Lamour