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Post by teleadm on Aug 11, 2018 8:01:57 GMT
Happy 93rd Birthday Arlene Dahl!!! Born on August 11, 1925 in Minneapolis, Minnesota Thanks for everything, so far...retired since 1999 but still available for interviews about "the good old days" in movies. American actress of Norwegian descent, classic beauty, and when movie roles runned out worked as a columnist and owned and created cosmetic brands.  A year after graduation from high school, Dahl went to Chicago where she was a buyer for Marshall and Brown and worked as a model. She then travelled to New York where she successfully auditioned for a part in the play Mr. Strauss Goes to Boston in 1945. This led to her getting the lead in another play, Questionable Ladies which was seen by a talent scout from Hollywood. Dahl had an uncredited bit in Life with Father 1947. She was promoted to leading lady in My Wild Irish Rose 1948 with Dennis Morgan, a big hit and led to an offer from MGM for a long-term contract. Her biggest commercial success as an actress was Journey to the Center of the Earth 1959. Since 1960 she has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Some smaples from her career:  Promotional pic from My Wild Irish Rose 1947, with Andrea King and Dennis Morgan.  A Southern Yankee 1948 publicity pic, with Red Skelton  Scene of the Crime 1949, with Van Johnson  Three Little Words 1950, with Red Skelton, Fred Astaire and Vera-Ellen.  Jamaica Run 1953, with Ray Milland  Woman's World 1954  Slightly Scarlet 1956  Journey to the Center of the Earth 1959, with Pat Boone and James Mason.  Kisses for My President 1964, with Fred MacMurray  Land Raiders 1969  Replacing Lauren Bacall on Broadway in the 1970s.  As Lucinda Schenck Wilson on the daily soap One Life to Live between 1981 and 1984.    Arlene Dahl has acted in over 45 movies and television productions   |
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Post by petrolino on Aug 11, 2018 9:48:15 GMT
Happy Birthday, Ms. Dahl! 
Redheaded leos Arlene Dahl and Rhonda Fleming starred together in 'Slightly Scarlet' (1956), one of Martin Scorsese's all-time favourite movies. Quentin Tarantino is keen to work with Dahl's talented son, actor Lorenzo Lamas. Dahl enjoyed working with Alan Ladd back in the day.
Arlene Dahl & Alan Ladd
Arlene Dahl on her friendship with Rhonda Fleming
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Post by timshelboy on Aug 11, 2018 10:10:08 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. |
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Post by teleadm on Aug 11, 2018 13:55:29 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. I had no idea those "Act opposite" even existed until I researched, apparently there was a whole bunch of those albums. Offcourse those albums are useless outside English speaking countries...  |
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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!
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Post by teleadm on Aug 11, 2018 14:17:18 GMT
I had no idea those "Act opposite" even existed until I researched, apparently there was a whole bunch of those albums. Offcourse those albums are useless outside English speaking countries... 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!
Useless back then! Now they would have been cool to frame and have on the walls |
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Post by timshelboy on Aug 11, 2018 14:21:58 GMT
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!
Useless back then! Now they would have been cool to frame and have on the walls Well Arlene for sure, probably Paulette, Pearl & Virginia.... Maybe George Raft.... but there is no way Maxie Rosenbloom gets on my wall - then or now.... |
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Post by politicidal on Aug 11, 2018 16:23:30 GMT
petrolino that's Desert Legion or something another isn't it? How is it?
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Post by petrolino on Aug 11, 2018 21:14:57 GMT
petrolino that's Desert Legion or something another isn't it? How is it? That's right, directed by Joseph Pevney. I didn't like the movie much but you can see it on the youtube. |
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Post by MCDemuth on Oct 21, 2018 12:53:27 GMT
I know this post is a bit late, but... Better late than never, right? Slightly Scarlet 1956 I loved her performance in "Slightly Scarlet"... Happy 93rd Birthday Arlene Dahl!!! Born on;August 11, 1925 in Minneapolis, Minnesota I watched the movie "Slightly Scarlet" because Rhonda Fleming was in the film. They played sisters, and Arlene played the younger one. Interestingly, Arlene's Birthday, is exactly ONE day after Rhonda's Birthday. Rhonda is two years, and ONE day older! Rhonda Fleming. Born: August 10, 1923 Arlene Dahl. Born: August 11, 1925 I wonder if the producers of the film, knew that little factoid, when they cast both of these fantastic actresses to play sisters... |
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Oct 21, 2018 14:01:04 GMT
Well I have a kink for redheads anyway... So been in love and lust with Arlene since forever 
First caught my eye in The Black Book (1949) and then had me hooked by doing the Western, Ambush, the following year. By the time of Slightly Scarlet 1956 (a film I adore so it's great to see love for it here) I was wishing she had done more Westerns and noirs.
Wicked as they Come (1956) is well worth a peek for anyone hankering for some more slinky Dahl work www.imdb.com/title/tt0049629/reference
Reviewed >
Portrait in Smoke.
Wicked as They Come is directed by Ken Hughes who also co-writes the screenplay with Sigmund Miller and Robert Westerby. It stars Arlene Dahl, Philip Carey, Herbert Marshall, Michael Goodlife and Ralph Truman. Music is by Malcolm Arnold and cinematography by Basil Emmott.
Adapted from the Bill S. Ballinger novel, story has Dahl as a poor but beautiful girl who realises that her sexuality will get her all the finer things in life - at whatever cost.
Efficient little British Noirer that makes up for a lack of originality with some strong psychological smarts.
We are all guilty of it, film fans and critics that is, in how we often compare a film recently viewed with something of a similar ilk that is far better. One such case is Wicked as They Come, a piece coming late in the original film noir cycle that sticks a major league femme fatale out there front and centre. Dahl's Kathy Allen (nee Allenbourg) is hot to trot, a viper of the highest order, her beauty and sexuality is stunning, thus men line up to eat out of her hands. Where once was sane and astute business men, now sit lap dogs soon ready to fall into the vipers nest.
If that sounds familiar then of course it is, even from the pre code days there were film makers exploring the sex as a weapon angle, toying with bad girl persona's as a course of cinematic titillation. Ken Hughes knows his draw card is Dahl, who even in black and white is heart achingly gorgeous, a smouldering vixen to literally die for. The story trajectory is nothing new, Kathy tramples on every man she can to feather her own nest, but sooner or later things have to come to a head, where the reason for the distorted psyche will out and the crossroads of life ominously appears at film's closure.
Better films out there that deal with the same themes? Yes, absolutely. That doesn't mean this should be readily dismissed as a viable option to those with an interest in such femme fatale dalliances. Dahl is super, her male co-stars equally so, and Hughes steers it safely to a perfectly ambiguous finale. Welcome to noirville, men enter at your own risk. 7/10
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), Pearl Bailey, someone called Jimmie Rodgers... Maxie Rosenbloom for God's sake!
