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Arlene Dahl
Arlene Carol Dahl was an American actress active in films from the late 1940s. Born in Minnesota to parents of Norwegian descent, Dahl started her acting career in musicals before transitioning to film, where she gained significant roles in MGM productions such as My Wild Irish Rose (1947) and The Bride Goes Wild (1948). She also starred in the adventure films Caribbean Gold (1952) and Desert Legi…
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business · American actress (1925–2021) · stage actor · television actor · film actor · columnist · entrepreneur · actor · also Arlene Dahl, Dahl
Born 11 August 1925 · Died 29 November 2021 · Q447879
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2021· 1 entry
Died 2021-11-29.
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1981· 1 entry
Dahl declared personal bankruptcy, with liabilities of almost $1 million and assets of only $623,970
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1978· 1 entry
"but I had better like business better or I'll lose my shirt
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1970· 1 entry
Earning nearly $750,000 annually, but she left in 1975 to found a short-lived fragrance company, Dahlia
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1967· 1 entry
Began serving as vice president at the advertising agency Kenyon and Eckhardt that same year
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1960· 3 entries
And had one child, Dahl's only daughter
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They married on October 15, 1960, and had one child, Dahl's only daughter.
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Appeared in the TV series Riverboat in the role of Lucy Belle in the episode "That Taylor Affair"
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1958· 1 entry
Dahl and Lamas had their only child, Lorenzo Lamas
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1957· 1 entry
Sued Columbia for $1 million, saying the film's advertisements for Wicked as They Come were "lewd" and "degraded" her
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1953· 2 entries
Hosted ABC's anthology series The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse
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Dahl played Roxanne on stage in a short-lived revival of Cyrano de Bergerac opposite Jose Ferrer
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1952· 1 entry
And opened Arlene Dahl Enterprises in 1954, marketing cosmetics and designer lingerie
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1951· 2 entries
And divorced the following year (Barker later married Lana Turner)
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Dahl began writing for a triweekly beauty column for Let's Be Beautiful, a newspaper owned by Chicago Tribune founder Robert McCormick
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1925· 2 entries
In Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Idelle (née Swan) and Rudolph Dahl, a Ford Motor dealer and executive
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Born 1925-08-11.
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