In addition to being Miss New Orleans in 1931, Dorothy Lamour worked as a Chicago elevator operator; band vocalist for her first husband, band leader Herbie Kaye; and radio performer. In 1936 she donned her soon-to-be-famous sarong for her debut at Paramount,
The Jungle Princess, and continued to play female Tarzan-Crusoe-Gauguin-girl-with make-up parts through the war years and beyond...See full bio »
I made 60 motion pictures and only wore the sarong in about six pictures, but it did become a kind of trademark.
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She first met Bob Hope while working as a singer at the popular nightclub 1 Fifth Ave. in New York's Greenwich Village, where she was accompanied on twin pianos by Julius Monk and Cy Feuer. She had top billing over him in several of their first pictures together at Paramount.
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Trademark:
Wearing a floral print wrap-around sarong
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