Arlene Dahl, Who Shone In Films Of The 1950s, Dies At 96

She co-starred with Bob Hope in 1953’s Here Come the Girls, supplied the love curiosity for Skelton in 1950’s Watch the Birdie and performed the heros sweetheart in such adventures as 1952’s Caribbean with John Payne, 1953’s Jamaica Run with Ray Milland and 1954’s Bengal Brigade with Rock Hudson.

Dahl turned as well-known for her six marriages as for her appearing profession. Her husbands included display performers Fernando Lamas and Lex Barker, Fleischmans yeast inheritor Christopher Holmes, wine importer Alexis Lichine and investor Rounsevelle Schaum. She was wed to businessman Marc Rosen for the final 37 years of her life.

When her film profession ended, Dahl remained distinguished in tv, together with a three-year stint within the cleaning soap opera One Life to Live within the mid Nineteen Eighties.

She made frequent appearances on The Love Boat within the Nineteen Eighties, and guest-starred on her son Lamas series Renegade and Air America within the late Nineteen Nineties.

Dahl additionally was energetic within the life-style enterprise, with a syndicated column on magnificence ideas, a fragrance, and lingerie and train outfits she designed herself. In the Sixties, Dahl wrote an recommendation e book, Always Ask a Man: Arlene Dahls Key to Femininity.

Her marriage to Barker was her first; it lasted seven months. Lex was one of the best undressed man Ive ever identified, she mentioned in a frank 1985 People journal interview.

The marriage to Lamas ended after seven years when he left her for Esther Williams.

Of Norwegian descent, Dahl was born in 1925 in Minneapolis, the place her father was a Ford vendor. Stage struck in highschool, she joined a drama group and made her strategy to New York, the place she modeled and appeared in Broadway performs.

She was signed by Warner Bros., making her first credited look within the 1947 musical My Wild Irish Rose." She then moved to MGM where her films included 1948’s A Southern Yankee with Skelton and 1950’s The Outriders with Joel McCrea.