Dorothy Lamour

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Dorothy Lamour (Born Mary Leta Dorothy Slaton in New Orleans, Louisiana, December 10, 1914 – September 22, 1996) was an American film actress and singer. She starred in a number of movie musicals and sang in many of her comedies and dramatic films as well. She introduced a number of standards, including "The Moon of Manakoora", "I Remember You", "It Could Happen to You", "Personality", and "But Beautiful". She is best remembered for appearing in the Road to... movies, a series of successful comedies starring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. In 1935, she had her own fifteen-minute weekly musical program on NBC Radio. She also sang on the popular Rudy Vallee radio show and The Chase and Sanborn Hour. In 1936, she moved to Hollywood and began appearing regularly in films for Paramount Pictures. The role that made her a star was Ulah (a sort of female Tarzan) in The Jungle Princess (1936). She wore a sarong, which would become associated with her. While she first achieved stardom as a sex symbol, Lamour also showed talent as both a comic and dramatic actress. She was among the most popular actresses in motion pictures from 1936 to 1952. She starred in the Road to... movie series with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope in the 1940s and 1950s. The movies were enormously popular during the 1940s, and they regularly placed among the top moneymaking films each year. While the films centered more on Hope and Crosby, Lamour held her own as their "straight man", and sang some of her most popular song

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Too Romantic - The Essential

Lovelight in the Starlight

Queen Of The Hollywood Islands

The Ultimate Collection

The Very Best Of

Ladies In Jazz - Dorothy Lamour

The Moon Of Manakoora

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Comes Love

A Collection of Favorite Hawaiian Songs

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Best of the Essential Years: Dorothy Lamour

Dorothy Lamour

Thanks For The Memory

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