Dorothy Lamour was a multi-talented performer who had a long and successful career in the entertainment industry. She began her career as Miss New Orleans in 1931, and went on to work as an elevator operator in Chicago, a band vocalist for her first husband, and a radio performer. In 1936, she made her debut at Paramount in The Jungle Princess, wearing her iconic sarong, and went on to star in many other films in the Tarzan-Crusoe-Gauguin-girl genre throughout the war years and beyond.
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💰 Net worth
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Tropic Holiday (1938)
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$1,000 /week |
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Spawn of the North (1938)
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$1,500 /week |
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St. Louis Blues (1939)
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$1,500 /week |
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Road to Zanzibar (1941)
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$5,000 /week |
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Caught in the Draft (1941)
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$5,000 /week |
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Aloma of the South Seas (1941)
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$5,000 /week |
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The Fleet's In (1942)
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$5,000 /week |
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 jokes. Of these she said, "I was the happiest and highest-paid straight woman in the business." As she aged, however, the quality of her films dropped. Among her serious films were Johnny Apollo (1940) and A Medal for Benny (1945).
