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Arlene Dahl Profile
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| 11 August 24 | is born in Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| 46 | is crowned "Rheingold Beer Girl" |
| 46 | Warner Brothers signs her for a screen test. On her first day there, Gary Cooper invites her to lunch at the executive dining room. |
| becomes the protégé of Jack Warner's confidant, Richard Gully |
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| 48 | dates young John F. Kennedy. They spend an evening together at Warner's with Rita Hayworth and Aly Khan, Clark Gable and Lady Ashley, and Grace Kelly and Oleg Cassini. The Shah of Iran, who had requested an introduction to her, attends alone. Since she's still a virgin, she declines his invitation to Sun Valley on a ski holiday, after consulting Gully. |
| August 49 | is the preview companion of popular Hollywood squire Philip Reed at the screening of The Stratton Story |
| April 51 | starts a beauty column for a newspaper syndicate |
| 16 April 51 | marries actor Lex Barker in New York City, after a spat that threatened to call the whole thing off |
| October 51 | honeymoons with Lex Barker in France, Italy, and England |
| 15 October 52 | receives a divorce from Lex Barker in Santa Monica, after being called a "hick from Minnesota." He will marry actress Lana Turner in 1953. |
| June 54 | dates the brother of the Queen of Greece |
| 54 | marries actor Fernando Lamas |
| November 55 | suffers a facial neuralgia and loses her part in War and Peace to Anita Ekberg |
| December 55 | fights with Lamas in public |
| 56 | quarrels with co-star Rhonda Fleming while filming Slightly Scarlet |
| January 56 | Lamas is in Europe; she's at home ill |
| 20 January 58 | gives birth to her son Lorenzo. He will become a TV actor. |
| September 59 | reconciles with Fernando Lamas for the sake of their son Lorenzo |
| August 60 | receives her divorce from Lamas on the grounds of mental cruelty |
| 15 October 60 | marries Christian R. Holmes, heir to the Fleischman Yeast fortune, in Pueblo, Mexico |
| 3 August 61 | gives birth to her daughter Christina |
| 13 October 64 | obtains a divorce in Santa Monica on the grounds of mental cruelty |
| 23 December 64 | marries importer and wine expert Alexis Lichine in Bridgetown, Barbados |
| 69 | divorces Lichine |
| 7 December 69 | marries business executive Rounsevelle W. Schaum in New York City |
| 8 December 70 | gives birth to her son Rounsevelle Andreas |
| 76 | her marriage ends in divorce |
| Summer 84 | marries perfume executive Marc Rosen aboard a cruise ship in the Mediterranean |
| 29 November 21 | dies at age 96 in New York City |
| Sources: Made in Heaven by Victoria Houseman, "The Man Hollywood Trusted" by Amy Fine Collins in Vanity Fair, Picturegoer 1949, Movie Story, Screen Stories, Silver Screen, The Hollywood Reporter, Screenland, Movieland, Modern Screen, Movie Spotlight, www.IMDb.com | |
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| Links: Filmography Classic Movies Arlene Dahl at Classic Movies | |