The actress and mother of Lorenzo Lamas, who died on November 29 at the age of 96, married six times and was one of the last survivors of classic Hollywood
Died this past November 29 at the age of 96, actress Arlene Dahl was one of the last survivors of classic Hollywood. Her heyday was the 50s, and especially in adventure movies, where she showed all her glamor, although at the end of the last century she achieved a new popularity as the mother of actor Lorenzo Lamas.
Redhead, of Norwegian descent, Arlene Carol Dahl (Minneapolis, August 11, 1925 – New York, November 29, 2021) took voiceover and dance lessons as a child and was actively involved in theatrical events when she was in elementary school. After graduating, Dahl went to Chicago, where she worked as a salesperson in a department store. Later, in New York and participated in various castings, being selected in 1945 for a small character in ‘Mr. Strauss Goes to Boston ‘, from which she is catapulted with the title role in another play,’ Questionable Ladies’, which was seen by a Hollywood scout where she is hired by MGM and becomes part of their dazzling roster of stars.
After playing a supporting role in ‘The Bride Goes Wild’ (1948), that same year she became the female lead in the Red Skelton comedy ‘A Southern Yankee’ (1948). Later would come films like ‘Scene of a Crime’ and ‘The reign of terror’, both from 1949; The western ‘Ambush’, with Robert Taylor; ‘The Desert Legion’, from 1953 with Alan Lad, ‘Bengal Rifles’, from 1954 with Rock Hudson, already an essential actress in Hollywood adventure films, or the intrigue ‘Slightly scarlet’, from 1956. Also she was on Broadway, among other characters, playing Roxanne in an adaptation of ‘Cyrano de Bergerac’ in 1953 and at the same time she frequently appeared on television shows and dramas. But his most recognized film of those years was the adaptation of Jules Verne’s 1959 novel ‘Journey to the Center of the Earth’, which was nominated for three Oscars, visual effects, sound and sets, and which he co-starred with James Mason.
Arlene Dahl and her son, Lorenzo Lamas.
In 1960 she married Texas oilman Christian Holmes and announced her retirement from acting. The marriage did not last, but Dahl increasingly diversified her work to become a lecturer and beauty consultant as she continued to perform, especially on television. His films of that decade are ‘Kisses for My President’ (1964) where he played a supporting role, and appears in ‘Land Raiders’ (1969),’ The Pleasure Pit ‘(1969) and in the French film’ Du blé en liasses ‘. She soon became vice president of the Kenyon and Eckhardt advertising agency, and in 1970 she was appointed director of the Sears Roebuck department store beauty line. Business is going very well and creates the Dahlia perfume company.
Arlene Dahl entered the field of astrology in the 1980s, writing an astrological column in the press and later for a premium phone company, reading the future to her callers. Dahl wrote more than two dozen books on the topics of beauty and astrology.
The actress was married six times. In addition to Christian Holmes, her best-known husbands included the actors Lex Barker (who came to embody Tarzan in films from the late 1940s and 1950s) and Fernando Lamas, whom he met in 1953 during filming. from ‘La Mansión De Sangaree’ and ‘The Diamond Queen’, from whose marriage would be born the popular actor Lorenzo Lamas, as well as the wine entrepreneur Alexis Lichine. She also had a brief relationship, in the late 1940s, with John Fitzgerald Kennedy, then a young senator from Massachusetts. At the time of her death, her husband was Marc Rosen, a packaging designer. The actress died in her Manhattan apartment on November 29, 2021, at the age of 96. In addition to Lorenzo Lamas, Arlene had two more children.
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