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Born. To Dorothy Lamour (nee Slater), 34, cinema sarongstress and leading lady to Hope and Crosby (Road to Utopia, Road to Morocco, etc.), and second husband William Ross Howard III, 42, wartime A.A.F. major now an advertising executive: their second child, second son; in Los Angeles. Name: Richard Thompson. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 31, 1949 | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

Born. To Dorothy Lamour (nee Mary Leta Dorothy Slater), 31, Hollywood's No. 1 sarongstress ; and A.A.F. Major William Ross Howard III, 38, prewar Virginia lumbermill-owner, onetime Maryland state legislator: their first child, a son; in Hollywood. Name: John Ridgely. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 21, 1946 | 1/21/1946 | See Source »

...minutes after Masquerade begins, idealistic cabaret Sarongstress Dorothy Lamour finds herself in Mexico City, knee-deep in a diamond theft, and falling in love with Patric Knowles. As a sort of cushion-shot to win his venomous wife (Ann Dvorak) back from her bullfighting Mexican lover (Arturo de Cordova), Knowles helps Dorothy masquerade as a Countess and gives her plenty of opportunity for song and romance with the bullfighter on the flower-strewn waters of Lake Xochimilco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 17, 1945 | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

...Sarongstress Dorothy Lamour, tireless troop entertainer, whose picture is a pin-up favorite of far-flung Army barracks, decided to marry a soldier whom she met on tour. He is Army Air Forces Captain William Ross Howard III, 35, peacetime Virginia lumberman, onetime Maryland state legislator. Captain Howard and the onetime elevator girl applied for a license in Los Angeles. She had a little difficulty filling out the application, consulted her agent when she came to the space marked: Occupation. Said the agent: "You're a movie actress, remember?" The marriage will be the second for each: her first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Apr. 12, 1943 | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

Through three pictures, the lantern-jawed comic has made calf eyes at dusky Dorothy Lamour. Their effect on the sarongstress has led her to remark: "In Typhoon I had a chimpanzee. In Zanzibar I have Hope." This time he gets her-fully clad, for a change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jul. 7, 1941 | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

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