Post by timshelboy on Aug 11, 2018 14:10:51 GMT
You know I had that "Act opposite Arlene Dahl" Co-Star record when I was in college - It was wonderful - There were scenes from CASABLANCA, a film that Ms Dahl had no connection with, where she acted out Ilsa/Ingrid (on a leopardskin rug?... which they left out of the film version) and there was a gap in the record for me to say "Here's looking at you kid" or "You wore blue, the Germans wore grey" or "You played it for her now play it for me"....... Hours of endless fun and amusement of the pre internet ilk. I bet that record is worth millions now. 
Oh yes and Arlene - well I liked JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH a huge amount. Who didn't?. WOMAN'S WORLD is pretty good fun and I'd give SLIGHTLY SCARLET another go. But I always think of her in some studio backlot jungle perspiring in a ladylike manner and palpitating charmingly in the arms of Fernando Lamas or Ricardo Montalban.
Useless? Oh I don't know....I kind of think Arlene on a leopard skin rug speaks an international tongue, where mere words are superfluous
The Arlene LP is now £13.95 on ebay! I had no idea there were so many :- Paulette Goddard doing PEYTON PLACE, Virginia Mayo, Basil Rathbone (KARAMAZOV!) Don Ameche .. dear, sweet Fernando Lamas!!!, George Raft (THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT), Tallulah (Not clear what she's performing although I guess that won't matter much in her case 
), Pearl Bailey, someone called Jimmie Rodgers... Maxie Rosenbloom for God's sake!