Arlene Dahl is DEAD TO ME!

I loved her so much.

She only had One Life to Live.

She’s free.

Technicolor noir.

She was a beauty and knew how to pick 'em. Too bad her son turned out to be such a dick.

Very handsome lady even in dirty and bedraggled costume and makeup

I take some comfort in knowing she'll give no more interviews like this one.

From Wikipedia: "She entered the field of astrology in the 1980s, writing a syndicated column and later operating a premium phoneline company. Dahl wrote more than two dozen books on the topics of beauty and astrology."

Mama!

So young!

We did this Dawl woman two months ago.

There nothing more to be said.

Well, they say celebrity deaths come in threes.

I sure wouldn’t want to die near Sondheim; I’d never get any attention.

Arlene's Beauty Spot

The soul doesn’t age past 30 . She’s eternally young and healthy again!!

Carbface!

These four last weeks of the year are always filled with celebrity deaths and I fear the sorry state of the world will only increase them.

RIP Arlene Doll

What can you say about Arlene Dahl? She....she...she had a lovely complexion.

**kisses Dahl**

She outlived her lookalike Rhonda Fleming by just over a year. But Rhonda lived a year long (died @ 97 in 2020.)

Rhonda & Arlene

r18, you got a WW from me.

So many of them have a soap appearance or run.

Not everyone

It depends

They had to strap Nando's cock down.

My God, Elizabeth was stunning. Short legs and short-waisted...but stunning.

First Rhonda Fleming, now this.

A friend who knew her husband through business, said he refers to Lorenzo Lamas as "my step son."

Some of these old school Hollywood-heyday actresses had very odd families as a result of their multiple marriages. Dahl had six husbands, three children by three of them. The well-known soap actor and leather-bound Renegade star Lorenzo Lamas, by Fernando Lamas, was her eldest. He was married iirc to a very plastic-looking Playboy starlet who used to wear Lucite heels everyplace, I'm sure some here recall this.

She had a daughter Carole by her next husband, who was a debutante, attended Georgetown and became a NY investment advisor. Her youngest son Stephen is an NYU-Harvard educated modern sculptor and "neuroaesthetics" artist (see the link).

Must have made for some very interesting holidays and family vacations.

Family reunion.

[quote] www.stephenschaum.com

I don't call that art.

Carrie covered that, r28...

Apparently the Arlene Dahl-Lex Barker-Fernando Lamas liaisons are even more complex than Debble-Eddie-Elizabeth. Dahl's six marriages, Barker's five, and Lamas' four resulted in nine kids. Barker's fourth wife committed suicide at age 25, leaving her son Chris Barker motherless at age 2. Then Chris' father died when Chris was 13, and it looks like Arlene became Chris' surrogate mother.

Shock of shocks: one of Lorenzo's daughters with the plastic Hollywood lady (whose name I found to be Shauna Sand) has a classy modeling career. See the link. It says she majored in psychology and global health at UCSD.

Arlene's granddaughter:

She was married to two of the biggest cocks in Hollywood, Fernando Lamas and Lex Barker.

She did four "Love Boats", one "Fantasy Island". one "Love, American Style", but NO "Murder She Wrotes". She was born only two months before Angela Lansbury...

RIP

r20 Fantastic pic

She looks marvelous!

Remember, it’s better to look marvelous than to feel marvelous.

r32 Dahl always defended Barker from all the gross accusations and charges made about him - pedophilia, child rape, etc. There was a thread here not too long ago questioning her for doing this. Your last sentence kind of explains why.

Arlene Dahl, an above the title star? I had no idea.

Yes, R39, for ten years or so...

An underwhelming Margo...

Arlene as the charming mystery celebrity on What’s My Line?

Her segment starts around 15:00

She had the pipes for Venus?

Lorenzo posted a beautiful tribute on Instagram

That is a very sweet post from Lorenzo. It also surprises me because I thought Esther Williams became more of a mom to him when she married Fernando.

Arlene on Tattletales with her 5th husband Skip.

Also appearing Patti Deutsch and husband Donald Ross, and William Shatner with a wife he didn’t drown.

When I was little, I always thought she was the epitome of glamour. Much more than Zsa Zsa and others who tried.

When I was little I thought Patti Deutsch was the epitome of glamour.

With Rock Hudson in The Bengal Brigade (1954)

From Dame Joan Collins

R44 They are/were rethug trash though.

[quote] Arlene on Tattletales with her 5th husband Skip.

Arlene Dahl was nearly 50 years old when she did that show with him. And she even had a baby with him at that age.

You’re next Joanie. Tick tok.

Arlene Carol Dahl (August 11, 1925 – November 29, 2021) was an American actress and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer star, who achieved notability during the 1950s. She had three children, the eldest of whom is actor Lorenzo Lamas.

She was one of the last surviving stars from the Classical Hollywood cinema era.

She...um...had a beautiful complexion.

5th husband Skip (r52) looks like he was also a member of the Big Fat Dick Club.

[quote]An underwhelming Margo...

Oh, so she did appear in the legitimate theater?

Was one of her husbands that dick Roald?

That is a great video R7.

What did Betty and Anne wear?

She did Vegas, baby!

Studying her script...

Maybe Joan Crawford will spill another glass of red wine all over her white satin gown.

R42: She clearly did not like being mistaken for Rhonda Fleming. At least she outlived Fleming and was arguably better known, plus she had all those "large packages" as he called them.

She played Roxane in Jose Ferrer's 1953 revival of "Cyrano de Bergerac" at City Center, and got good reviews.

Arlene said she dated JFK for two years. She was a virgin going into the relationship. The question is, was she one when it ended?

"Wicked as They Come"

I doubt she dated that she dated JFK for two years and, if she did, she quickly would have lost her virginity. I'm guessing Joe & rose thought she was "common" and crass, which her comments about Cheryl Crane and packages suggest she true.

Only the best for our boys!

I saw her at the Vivian Beaumont Theater for an opening in the early 70s. Yes, she did have that beauty mark and porcelain complexion and red hair. However, what was wild was that she was wearing a mink coat with bands of mink alternating with bands of clear plastic. I kept thinking how hot she must have been wearing that coat.

[quote] At least she outlived Fleming and was arguably better known

I would say they are dead even in that regard. That's why everyone gets them mixed up.

Paulette prefers leather to plastic, r70.

I doubt I've ever seen an Arlene Dahl movie.

Not even JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, r73?

Loved that film as a kid, r74

Pat Boone, believe it or not, has an unforgettable hot nude scene in JOURNEY....EARTH. There's also a very sexy shirtless Scandinavian stud and his goose.

It's worth a look, r73.

Did Irving Rapper direct it?

Journey...

Love James Mason and his voice

I adore James Mason and his voice. What a pity he made so many mistakes in his life and married that manipulative harridan who bled him dry.

Has Pat Boone commented on Dahl's death?

Well, Hello Dahl-ee!

No relation, R58.

Reposting Miss Dahl's engagement party picture.

Arlene “The Living” Dahl.

Who's in that pic, R84? I recognize Nancy Reagan and Dahl, but not sure about the others.

The one in the lower left of R184's pic looks like someone directly off the set of Some Like it Hot.

R86, Jean Hagen, Jane Powell, Nancy Davis, and Audrey Totter.

Miss Powell departed this world last September. Now she is joined by Miss Dahl.

Jean Hagen died ages ago. She had the honor of playing Danny Thomas' first tv wife. What she must have known about coffee tables! A classy complement to Nancy Reagan an her her knowledge of removing chrome from "door knobs".

On what was possibly the gayest night of my life, I was at a Charles Busch show at 54 Below seated next to Arlene Dahl and Robert Osborne. Michael Musto was at a table behind me and a few tables over I saw Christine Ebersole talking to Rex Reed. Arlene looked fabulous!

I've never seen a chrome door knob, r89.

What did Busch's show consist of, r90?

She got some good dick but she couldn’t put out forever.

Does anyone…

still wear…

a hat?

Who doesn’t love a broad in a bowler?

Which comment was worse, Arlene’s or Shirley Jones’ when she said that all of her sons were “hung like donkeys”?

[quote]On what was possibly the gayest night of my life, I was at a Charles Busch show at 54 Below seated next to Arlene Dahl and Robert Osborne. Michael Musto was at a table behind me and a few tables over I saw Christine Ebersole talking to Rex Reed. Arlene looked fabulous!

This has nothing to do with Arlene Dahl, but on the gayest night of my life I shared an elevator with Quentin Crisp and Joan Bennett, who was accompanied by several young gay men.

That had to be the first engagement party at R84, no?

By the sixth one, Arlene would be handing out toasters and vases to her guests.

[quote] Favorites: Slightly Scarlet, Woman's World, She Played with Fire, Wicked as They Come, Journey to the Center of the Earth

Two of those are rather cheap British movies for Columbia.

She is barely adequate in 'She Played with Fire' with is on Youtube. She displays her enormous rack of pointy bosoms but she's incapable of emotion.

The director (an old Hitchcock colleague) can't do much with her so he concentrates on Jack Hawkins (who makes an unconvincing sex symbol) and a collection of supporting actors who are more interesting than the leads.

One of the those supporting is Greta Gynt who is the only other famous Norwegian performer. Greta Gynt has a lot more personality than clotheshorse Arlene,

[quote] Pat Boone, believe it or not, has an unforgettable hot nude scene in JOURNEY....EARTH

It is merely '"implied-male-nudity'.

IMDB says the film was owned by Twentieth Century Fox, Joseph M. Schenck and Cooga Mooga Film Productions, Inc..

I don't know what 'Great Googa Mooga' means.

[quote]Which comment was worse, Arlene’s or Shirley Jones’ when she said that all of her sons were “hung like donkeys”?

Once again: SHE'S MY STEPMOTHER!

Yes, R100, that was a quick and sloppy list. I tried to limit it to those films with her name above the title. If I had it to do over, I'd scratch those two and add Three Little Words and Scene of the Crime.

Arlene Dahl's lip mole looks smaller than other people's moles.

It looks like she was trying to eat caviar and missed.

[quote]"She entered the field of astrology in the 1980s, writing a syndicated column and later operating a premium phoneline company.

If she were any kind of decent astrologist,

she would've seen this coming

Arlene, Bob Osborne, and friends.

R99, yes, it was Arlene's first.

What friend is that next to Dahl in that pic, R107?

R109, That's the lovely Gena Rowlands.

Wow, Gena really hit the wall hard.

You spend 35 years with John Cassavetes R111, and then we’ll talk.

R53 that would read totally differently if you'd signed it "Sable Colby"

Chita looks positively younger than springtime in that pic at r107!

This has to be the most underwhelming MGM musical number...ever.

Well, at least it was her own singing voice, r115.

Now, now, Ava. The released soundtrack recording was you.

{quote]Arlene, Bob Osborne, and friends.

The "friends" are Gena Rowlands, Chita Rivera and the recently deceased Jane Powell. Gena and Chita are still with us. Gena, who "hit the wall hard," in the words of one poster, is now 91.

Are there any MGM over-the-title stars left besides Leslie Caron and dear Marsha Hunt, whose credits go back to the 1930s even if she was mostly a star of MGM's B pictures.

Remember, I said OVER-THE-TITLE!

[quote]Remember, I said OVER-THE-TITLE!

No need to raise your voice, R119. I go back to the 1940s, which should be good enough in 2021.

r119 But you didn't specify what period. If you're including the '60s -- George Hamilton and Yvette Mimieux from "Light in the Piazza."

I got billing over you in 1948, Dame Angela.

Ethel K is truly homely .

With the departure of Jane Powell, Dean Stockwell and Arlene Dahl this year, the only remaining stars from these MGM anniversary photos are Marsha Hunt from the 1944 shot, Angela Lansbury from the 1949 gathering, and Margaret O'Brien, Russ Tamblyn, Shirley MacLaine and George Hamilton from the 1974 That's Entertainment party.

I heard she barely looked 92.

Even though she was the mother of an aging lizard.

[quote]I shared an elevator with Quentin Crisp and Joan Bennett, who was accompanied by several young gay men.

And you were all sharing the same shaft.

She gave birth to the hotness that is, or at least was until fairly recently, Lorenzo Lamas. That is her greatest artistic achievement. Forget everything else.

bed head

I hope Santa puts this in my stocking this year...

Also Claude Jarman Jr. is still around from the 1949 MGM anniversary photo.

Arlene and Fernando made quite a couple, no?

R92 He was playing a housewife who had a cabaret show.

Did it work, r132?

R133 Worked for me! I love him.

I do as well, r134. The only time I saw him was in The Lady in Question so I was curious what his club act consisted of.

Do we know much about her last husband who is now a widower?

Her last husband was 'an industrialist'.

Wasn't he working for Revlon or some other cosmetics conglomerate when he met her?

The Little Girl That Lived Down the Road. (1976)

^^^sorrry, me bad. that was Alexis Smith. Should have done the work first.