Arlene Dahl Biography

Fast Facts

• Made her screen acting debut in the film "Life with Father" in 1947
• Moved to Chicago at the age of 15 to pursue a modeling career and later left for New York, where she became the first "Clairol redhead․"
• Best known for her role as Carla Goteborg in "Journey to the Center of the Earth," as Eileen Percy in "Three Little Words," and as Lucinda Schenck Wilson in "One Life to Live․"
• Is the author of more than 15 books on beauty and astrology, including "Always Ask a Man: Arlene Dahl's Key to Femininity," which she published in 1965
• Is the founder and president of the Broadway Walk of Stars Foundation
• Wrote a syndicated beauty column, which ran in 165 different newspapers, for 20 years beginning in 1951
• Was also a stage actress who appeared in 19 different plays during her career, including the highly-praised "Applause․"