The Road series films were popular during the 1940s. Lamour began her career in the 1930s as a big band singer. Blue Hawaii . Corrections? They had two sons and remained married until Howard's death in 1978. The former CEO of Paramount on the next chapter of her career, Moonlight: The anti-blockbuster shaking up Hollywood, For producer DeVon Franklin, Christian films merge his passion and his faith. [citation needed], Mandl had close social and business ties to the Italian government, selling munitions to the country,[10] and although like Hedy, his own father was Jewish, had ties to the Nazi regime of Germany, as well. [citation needed], Lamour's first marriage was to orchestra leader Herbie Kay, with whose orchestra Lamour sang. [121], In 2017, actress Celia Massingham portrayed Lamarr on The CW television series Legends of Tomorrow in the sixth episode of the third season, titled Helen Hunt. Raft was meant to be Lamour's leading man in St. Louis Blues (1939) but he turned down the part and was replaced by Lloyd Nolan. The pictures in this gallery, meanwhile, focus on Hurrells work with icons from the 1930s and 40s, including Bogart, Dietrich, James Cagney, Anna May Wong, Carole Lombard, Dorothy Lamour, Joan Crawford (his longtime muse), and others. After taking a business course, she worked as a secretary to support herself and her mother. [35] Howard died in 1978. And only Lamarr was successful. The 72-year-old Lamour quipped: "Well, at my age you can't lean against a palm tree and sing 'Moon of Manakoora'", she said. Strange Enchantment (Loesser-Hollander) by Dorothy Lamour, orchestra conducted by Lou Bring (original 78rpm courtesy of The Rick Colom Collection)One of Lamo. On November 7, her urn was buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery in Group 33 G, Tomb No. dorothy lamour inventor dorothy lamour inventor https://iccleveland.org/wp-content/themes/icc/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 ICC ICC https://iccleveland.org/wp . [35], Lamarr also had a penchant for speaking about herself in the third person. Lamour made Melody Inn (1943) with Dick Powell, then And the Angels Sing (1944) with Fred MacMurray and Hutton, where she sang "It Should Happen to You". She and Chertok then made Dishonored Lady (1947), another thriller starring Lamarr, which also went over budget - but was not a commercial success. Actress of Motion Pictures and Television. Hollywood glamour. Hawaiian Hospitality : Dorothy Lamour - Internet Archive Of these she said, "I was the happiest and highest-paid straight woman in the business." Dorothy Lamour with one of her sons, circa 1945. The film became both celebrated and notorious for showing Lamarr's face in the throes of orgasm as well as close-up and brief nude scenes. Welles also acted as the enigmatic Harry Lime character, and provided the famous "cuckoo clock" speech, in director Carol Reed's British noir classic The Third Man (1949) (produced by Alexander Korda and David O. Selznick). She returned to I Take This Woman, re-shot by W. S. Van Dyke. His early career coincided with recording innovations Omissions? [112], In 2011, the story of Lamarr's frequency-hopping spread spectrum invention was explored in an episode of the Science Channel show Dark Matters: Twisted But True, a series that explores the darker side of scientific discovery and experimentation, which premiered on September 7.