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Actress Arlene Dahl RIP

Johnnyeager — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 21:00:50 GMT

Arlene Dahl, one of the last of the MGM contract players, has passed at the age of 96. Her death follows those of fellow MGM alums Jane Powell and Dean Stockwell. She is the mother of actor Lorenzo Lamas.

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deepwaterdotter — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 21:01:49 GMT

She was a lovely lady.

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meallen616 — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 21:06:38 GMT

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Oznell — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 21:21:15 GMT

@Johnnyeager, I'm sorry to hear this. You found great photos. She was such a beauty, wasn't she, with that rich, redheaded coloring. Also very animated, energetic (she also wrote beauty books, among other things) and just generally warm and charming.

Loved her and Van Johnson together in tense, exciting noir, "Scene of the Crime".

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Spacrazy — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 21:23:04 GMT

Oh, I loved her! What beautiful memories she leaves with us.

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Lucky Charm — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 21:30:22 GMT

I only know her from Tattletales. (!) She and a husband, his name was Skip or Chip, they seemed like an odd pair. He was much younger, I believer. But she was so elegant and reserved.

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Sage04 — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 21:39:32 GMT

I remember her very well. She was always so proud of her son Lorenzo Lamas.

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Shelbelle — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 21:52:41 GMT

Lorenzo made it very public that he also adored his long time step mother, Esther Williams. He was lucky to have 2 lovely ladies like these in his life.

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chloe4578 — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 21:54:17 GMT

She was absolutely gorgeous in person. I bumped into her at Saks Fifth Avenue many years ago in New York. Nice lady and very tall as I recall.

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SharkE — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 22:12:19 GMT

@Sage04 wrote:
I remember her very well. She was always so proud of her son Lorenzo Lamas.

Drop dead gorgeous when he's cleaned up. When he's posing for GQ

not motorcycle show.

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godi — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 22:48:00 GMT

What a natural beauty. RIP 🙏

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golding76 — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 23:21:19 GMT

She was blessed with so much outward beauty, and I sense that she had a lovely soul to match. How well I remember her from my youth.

Exquisite skin and hair.

May she rest in peace.

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twinsister — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 00:07:34 GMT

She was so very beautiful! I liked her in Woman's World with June Allyson and Lauren Bacall. May she rest in peace.

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qvcaddition — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 01:48:15 GMT

Is it just me thinking. the female and male stars of long ago were so much better looking than the majority of today,s stars?

The women were beautiful, classy and elegant.

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beach-mom — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 02:05:56 GMT

She definitely was beautiful. I don't know if I ever saw her in anything, but I read her beauty book when I was a teenager. I was not anywhere near thinking about marriage, but years later when I did I used advice I got from her book! And I still remember that book and her!

I watched Falcon Crest, and Lorenzo Lamas was a big deal, so I knew she was his mother. And didn't Billy Crystal base his SNL character on his father?

Thank you @Johnnyeager for posting these beautiful pictures!

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golding76 — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 02:10:00 GMT

qvcaddition,

I fully agree with you about the stars of yesteryear being more beautiful/handsome than those of today. And to think that most of them never had so much as an injection or any adjustment to their natural-born features.

Several months ago I read that plastic surgery and injections oftentimes make the women look more masculine. That made me think about such a possibility. Perhaps Botox injections plump up the skin and, as a result, make wrinkles go away, but at the same time, the contours of the face are changed and maybe "squared off" or become larger by virtue of being blown up. A square jaw and larger features are typically associated with men.

I don't know, but the statement was food for thought. Then, too, there is the fact that so many appear to get the same "look," so that there is not much in the way of a true variety of looks.

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phoenixbrd — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 06:02:23 GMT

96 years living a full life...that's meeting goals.

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Jo1313 — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 12:35:01 GMT

She was a lovely person..I met her in NYC in the late 70's or early 80's..At that time she had a line of wigs sold only at Sears..My husband was a Sears executive in the NY office..I was able to go to meet her..nothing phony about her..she was a delight.

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Johnnyeager — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 14:10:14 GMT

Arlene appeared in wig ads for her line at Sears and, as the Sears beauty executive, was also in the Wishbook in the early 1970s.

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newname0 — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 14:49:18 GMT