DOROTHY LAMOUR , THE FASHION ICON OF HOLLYWOOD DIED SEPTEMBER 22,1996
DOROTHY LAMOUR , THE FASHION ICON OF HOLLYWOOD DIED SEPTEMBER 22,1996 Dorothy Lamour Born December 10, 1914 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA - Miss New Orleans in 1931 THE FASHION ICON OF HOLLYWOOD Died September 22, 1996 in Los Angeles, California, USA (heart attack) Birth Name Mary Leta Dorothy Slaton Nicknames The Beautiful One The Sarong Girl Dottie Height 5' 5" (1.65 m) Mini Bio (2) In addition to being Miss New Orleans in 1931, Dorothy Lamour worked as a Chicago elevator operator; band vocalist for her first husband, band leader Herbie Kaye; and radio performer. In 1936 she donned her soon-to-be-famous sarong for her debut at Paramount, The Jungle Princess (1936), and continued to play female Tarzan-Crusoe-Gauguin-girl-with make-up parts through the war years and beyond. The most famous of these was in the popular Bob Hope/Bing Crosby "Road" pictures - a strange combination of adventure, slapstick, ad-libs and Hollywood inside j...