Word: lamour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other hand, Dorothy Lamour as an orientalized American is distinctly wooden--not only in her acting but in her attempt at speaking English with an accent. It seems that Paramount has taught her some Chinese for the picture; for those who are interested, it can be understood, but it recks of Brooklyn...
Since his fiancée died of a badly diagnosed appendicitis, stern Surgeon Forster (Akim Tamiroff) has lived for science, not for sentiment. His efforts to hew Dr. Beaven (John Howard) in his own grim image are upset when the younger physician meets exotic, black-banged, slitherish Audrey (Dorothy Lamour). An American brought up by Chinese, Audrey speaks English with a nursery-school singsong. Dr. Forster succeeds in breaking up their match in the interests of science, but he also breaks up Dr. Beaven, who sets out to hunt his Audrey among 450,000,000 warring Chinese...
Divorced. Dorothy Lamour (real name: Dorothy Slaton), 24, sloe-eyed cinemactress; by Herbie Kay (real name: Herbert D. Kaumeyer), 30, sweet jazzband leader; in Chicago. Grounds: desertion...
...agency producing the show for admission to Radio City's 1,318-seat Studio 8-H. A crowd of 5,000 was at the station when the troupe arrived, but Charlie was nowhere to be seen. Photographers grouped Master of Ceremonies Don Ameche, darkling Sarongstress Dorothy Lamour and Baritone Donald Dickson for a picture. As they were sighting the group, a pressagent brought another man over, a middling, fair, baldish chap with delicate, expressive lips. For one photographer up front, this man crowded the picture, blocked the view of the lissome Lamour. "Hey," he growled, "get that...
...Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art proudly displayed its latest acquisition: Dorothy Lamour's sarong, donated by Paramount to "stimulate public interest in the museum as a whole...