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Dorothy Lamour
Mary Leta Dorothy Slaton
Singer, Actress
(1914 - 1996)
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Dorothy Lamour is remembered as “the sarong girl” for the many roles for which she donned the garment, beginning with The Jungle Princess (1936) and running through Beyond the Blue Horizon (1942). Reference is made to her sarong in the seven popular “Road” pictures that she made with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope between 1940 and 1961. After winning the title of “Miss New Orleans” in 1931, Lamour went to Chicago to pursue a career as a singer, appearing with the Herbie Kaye band and on radio. She went to Hollywood in 1935 and during her career played in several serious films, sans sarong: Disputed Passage (1939), Johnny Apollo (1940), and A Medal for Benny (1945). She also starred in musicals: The Fleet’s In (1942) with William Holden, followed by And the Angels Sing (1944) where she and Fred MacMurray introduced “It Could Happen to You.” Not only was Lamour a favorite pin-up girl during WWII, but she tirelessly worked for the war effort, topping the sale of war bonds, for which she was honored by the Treasury Department in 1965.
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