Arlene Carol Dahl was an American actress active in films from the late 1940s.
35 Facts About Arlene Dahl
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Arlene Dahl was one of the last surviving stars from the Classical Hollywood cinema era.
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Arlene Dahl founded two companies, Arlene Dahl Enterprises and Dahlia, a fragrance company.
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Arlene Dahl was born on August 11,1925, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Idelle and Rudolph Arlene Dahl, a Ford Motor dealer and executive.
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Arlene Dahl cited her year of birth as 1928, although her birth record, available through the Minnesota Historical Society, shows she was born on August 11,1925.
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Arlene Dahl then traveled to New York and worked as a model for the Walter Thornton Model Agency, where she successfully auditioned for a part in the musical Mr Strauss Goes to Boston in 1945.
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Arlene Dahl had an uncredited bit part in Life with Father.
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Arlene Dahl was promoted to leading lady in My Wild Irish Rose with Dennis Morgan, a big hit that led to an offer from MGM for a long-term contract.
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Arlene Dahl remained there to play the female lead in the Red Skelton comedy A Southern Yankee.
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Arlene Dahl was hired by Pine-Thomas Productions to a multi-picture contract.
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Arlene Dahl was cast in Caribbean Gold, a swashbuckler starring John Payne.
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Arlene Dahl went to Universal-International to co-star with Alan Ladd in a French Foreign Legion story, Desert Legion ; then Pine-Thomas used her again in Jamaica Run and Sangaree.
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Arlene Dahl supported Bob Hope in the comedy Here Come the Girls.
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In 1953, Arlene Dahl played Roxanne on stage in a short-lived revival of Cyrano de Bergerac opposite Jose Ferrer.
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Arlene Dahl played the ambitious Carol Talbot in Woman's World at Fox, and she was Rock Hudson's leading lady in Universal's adventure war film Bengal Brigade.
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Arlene Dahl began writing a syndicated beauty column in 1952, and opened Arlene Dahl Enterprises in 1954, marketing cosmetics and designer lingerie.
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Arlene Dahl began appearing on television, including episodes of Lux Video Theatre and The Ford Television Theatre.
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John Payne and Arlene Dahl were reunited in a film noir, Slightly Scarlet, alongside Rhonda Fleming, another red-haired star.
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Arlene Dahl made some films in England for Columbia: Wicked as They Come and Fortune Is a Woman.
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Arlene Dahl hosted the short-lived television series Opening Night and had the female lead in the adventure movie Journey to the Center of the Earth, opposite James Mason and Pat Boone.
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Arlene Dahl was injured on set making the latter, but it turned out to be one of her most successful films.
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Arlene Dahl had a supporting role in Kisses for My President and appeared in Land Raiders, The Pleasure Pit, and the French film Du ble en liasses.
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Arlene Dahl appeared on TV in Burke's Law and Theatre of Stars.
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Arlene Dahl returned to Broadway in the early 1970s, replacing Lauren Bacall in the role of Margo Channing in Applause.
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In 1981, Arlene Dahl declared personal bankruptcy, with liabilities of almost $1 million and assets of only $623,970.
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Arlene Dahl had lost $163,000 from burglaries of jewelry and furs from her Manhattan apartment, and she earned only $11,367 in 1980 and $10,517 in 1979.
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Arlene Dahl appeared on ABC's soap opera One Life to Live from 1981 to 1984 as Lucinda Schenck Wilson.
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The character was planned as a short-term role, but Arlene Dahl later was offered a one-year contract to appear on the series from September 1983 to October 1984.
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Arlene Dahl entered the field of astrology in the 1980s, writing a syndicated column and later operating a premium phoneline company.
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Arlene Dahl wrote more than two dozen books on the topics of beauty and astrology.
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Arlene Dahl guest-starred on episodes of shows starring her son, Renegade and Air America.
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In 1951, Arlene Dahl began writing for a tri-weekly beauty column for Let's Be Beautiful, a newspaper owned by Chicago Tribune founder Robert McCormick.
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Arlene Dahl invented the Dahl Beauty Cap, a knitted sleeping cap for women.
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Arlene Dahl has six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
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Arlene Dahl died in her Manhattan apartment on November 29,2021, at the age of 96.