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Arlene Dahl
American actress

Arlene Dahl

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American actress
Gender
Female
Place of birth
Minneapolis
Age
99 years
Family
Spouse:
Lex Barker Fernando Lamas Alexis Lichine
Children:
Lorenzo Lamas
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Biography

Arlene Carol Dahl (born August 11, 1925) is an American actress and former MGM contract star, who achieved notability during the 1950s. She has three children, the eldest of whom is actor Lorenzo Lamas.

Personal life

Dahl was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, of Norwegian descent, to Idelle (née Swan) and Rudolph S. Dahl, a Ford Motor dealer and executive. She cites her year of birth as 1928, although her birth record (1925-43442), available through the Minnesota Historical Society, shows she was born on August 11, 1925. An August 13, 2014 article in The New York Social Diary by David Patrick Columbia, entitled "Losses and Gains", references her 89th birthday celebration with her husband, children and family.

After graduating from Washburn High School, she held various jobs, including performing in a local drama group and briefly working as a model for department stores. Dahl's mother was involved in local amateur theatre. As a child, Dahl took elocution and dancing lessons and was active in theatrical events at Margaret Fuller Elementary School, Ramsey Junior High School and Washburn Senior High School. Dahl briefly attended the University of Minnesota.

In the early 1950s, she met actor Lex Barker; they wed on April 16, 1951, and divorced the following year, and Dahl went on to marry another matinee idol, Fernando Lamas. (Barker later married Lana Turner.) In 1958, Dahl and Lamas had their only child, Lorenzo Lamas. Shortly after giving birth to Lorenzo, Dahl slowed and eventually ended her career as an actress, although she still appeared in movies and on television occasionally.

Dahl and Lamas divorced in 1960, and Dahl later remarried. In addition to Lorenzo Lamas, Dahl has two other children: a daughter Christina Carole Holmes (born August 3, 1961) by third husband Christian R. Holmes, and a second son, Rounsevelle Andreas Schaum (born December 8, 1970), by her fifth husband, Rounsevelle W. Schaum. She has six grandchildren, one of whom is Shayne Lamas, and two great-grandchildren, and divides her time between New York City and West Palm Beach, Florida. Dahl has been married to Marc Rosen, a packaging designer, since 1984.

Career

Dahl began her acting career in 1947. She reached the peak of her popularity and success in the 1950s. Her films include: Reign of Terror (1949), Three Little Words (1950), Slightly Scarlet (1956), and Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959).

Dahl was both a mystery guest and a panelist on the CBS game show What's My Line?. In 1953, she hosted ABC's anthology series The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse. In 1960, she played the part of Lucy Belle in the episode "That Taylor Affair" of Riverboat, alongside Darren McGavin.

She appeared on ABC's soap opera One Life to Live from 1981-84 as Lucinda Schenck Wilson. The character was planned as a short-termed role (she guest-starred from late 1981 to early 1982 and in late 1982), but Dahl was later offered a one-year contract to appear on the show from September 1983 to October 1984. Her last feature film, which followed a hiatus of more than two decades, was Night of the Warrior (1991), which co-starred her son, Lorenzo Lamas.

Dahl began writing a syndicated beauty column in 1952, and opened Arlene Dahl Enterprises in 1954, marketing cosmetics and designer lingerie. After closing her company in 1967, she began working as a vice president at ad agency Kenyon and Eckhardt that same year. Dahl moved to Sears Roebuck as director of beauty products in 1970, earning nearly $750,000 annually, but left in 1975 to found her short-lived fragrance company Dahlia. She entered the field of astrology in the 1980s, writing a syndicated column and later operating a premium phoneline company. Dahl has written more than two dozen books on the topics of beauty and astrology.

Filmography

YearTitleRole
1947My Wild Irish RoseRose Donovan
1948The Bride Goes WildTillie Smith Oliver
A Southern YankeeSallyann Weatharby
1949Scene of the CrimeGloria Conovan
Reign of TerrorMadelon
1950AmbushAnn Duverall
The OutridersJen Gort
Three Little WordsEileen Percy
Watch the BirdieLucia Corlone
1951Inside StraightLily Douvane
No Questions AskedEllen Sayburn Jessman
1952CaribbeanChristine Barclay McAllister
1953Desert LegionMorjana
Jamaica RunEna Dacey
SangareeNancy Darby
Here Come the GirlsIrene Bailey
The Diamond QueenQueen Maya
1954Woman's WorldCarol Talbot
Bengal BrigadeVivian Morrow
1956Slightly ScarletDorothy Allen
Wicked as They ComeKathleen "Kathy" Allen
1957Fortune Is a WomanSarah Moreton Branwell
1959Journey to the Center of the EarthCarla Goetabaug
1964Kisses for My PresidentDoris Reid Weaver
1967Les PoneyttesShoura Cassidy
1969The Pleasure PitLaureen
Land RaidersMartha Cardenas
1991Night of the WarriorEdie Keane
2003Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were ThereHerself

Television work

YearTitleRoleNotes
1953-1954The Pepsi-Cola PlayhouseHost
1954-1955Lux Video TheatreIlsa LundEpisodes: "Casablanca" and "September Affair"
The Ford Television TheatreMary McNeil/Jody Hill2 episodes
1958Opening NightHost(canceled after a few weeks)
1963-1965Burke's LawPrincess Kortzoff/Eva Martinelli/Gloria Cooke/Maggie French4 episodes
1965Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler TheatreValerieEpisode: "Perilous Time"
1971Deadly DreamConnieTV Movie
1976Jigsaw JohnEpisode: "Sand Trap"
1979-1987The Love BoatMonica Cross/Natalie Martin/Ellen Kirkwood/Jessica York4 episodes
1981Fantasy IslandAmelia Shelby1 Episode
1981-1984One Life to LiveLucinda Schenk Wilson
1995-1997RenegadeVirginia Biddle/Elaine Carlisle2 episodes
1995All My ChildrenLady Lucille
1999Air AmericaCynthia GarlandEpisode: "Eye of the Storm"


Radio appearances

YearProgramEpisode/source
1953Broadway Playhouse"No Man of Her Own"
1953Stars over Hollywood"Remember Bill"

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