Dorothy Lamour Biography

Fast Facts

• In 1948, she received a Golden Apple Award for Most Cooperative Actress
• Was nominated for a 1988 Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress
• After working as an elevator operator, she earned a degree from Spence Business College
• Got her big break when bandleader Herbie Kay noticed her performing in a Chicago talent show
• Quote: "I made 60 motion pictures and only wore the sarong in about six pictures, but it did become a kind of trademark․"
• Quote: "[on "road" comedies] "I was the happiest and highest-paid straight woman in the business․""
• Frequently worked on the "Road to․․․" films with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby
• In the 1930s and 1940s, she often portrayed exotic heroines from the South Sea wrapped in silk sarongs
• Entering beauty pageants at a young age, she was crowned Miss New Orleans in 1931
• During World War II, she worked as a volunteer selling war bonds