Los Angeles: Actor Arlene Dahl, who starred in Technicolor films such as 1950s “Journey to the Center of the Earth” and Three Little Words, has died at the age of 96.
Dahl’s son, actor Lorenzo Lamas, said in posts on Facebook and Instagram that he died Monday morning in New York. No cause of death was given.
“I will remember her laughter, her joy, her dignity as she faced the challenges,” Lamas said. She was truly a force of nature.
In 1959’s Journey to the Center of the Earth, an adaptation of Jules Verne’s sci-fi classic, Dahl plays the widow of a scientist who co-stars James Mason and Pat, a grieving race at Earth’s core. Joins Boone.
She sang and danced in 1950’s Three Little Words, a musical biopic by songwriters Burt Kalmar and Harry Ruby, playing Ruby’s wife Eileen Percy, often co-starring Red Skelton.
He co-starred with Bob Hope in 1953’s Here Come the Girls, provided the love interest for Skelton in 1950’s Watch the Birdy and with John Payne in 1952’s Caribbean, 1953’s Jamaica Run with Ray Milland and 1954’s Played the role of Hero’s girlfriend in Bengal Brigade. With Rock Hudson.
Dahl became as famous for her acting career as Six Weddings. Her husbands included screen performers Fernando Lamas and Lex Barker, Fleischman yeast heir Christopher Holmes, wine importer Alexis Lichin, and investor Rouswell Schom. She was married to businessman Mark Rosen for the last 37 years of her life.
When her film career ended, Dahl remained prominent in television, including a three-year stint on the soap opera One Life to Live in the mid-1980s.
She appeared frequently on The Love Boat in the 1980s, and guest-starred in the late 1990s with her Son Lamas series Renegade and Air America.
Dahl was also active in the lifestyle business, creating a syndicated column on beauty tips, a perfume, and lingerie and exercise outfits she designed herself. In the 1960s, Dahl wrote an advice book, Always Ask a Man: Arlene Dahl’s Two Femininity.
Her first marriage was to Barker; This lasted for seven months. Lex was the best naked man ever, he said in a candid interview with People magazine in 1985.
Lamas’ marriage ended after seven years when he left her for Esther Williams.
Of Norwegian descent, Dahl was born in 1925 in Minneapolis, where his father was a Ford dealer. The stage hit in high school, she joined a drama group and moved to New York, where she modeled and appeared in Broadway plays.
She was signed by Warner Bros., which made her first credited appearance in 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 Outsiders with Joel. McCrea was involved.
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The late AP Entertainment writer Bob Thomas contributed background material.
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