Arlene Dahl
Also Known As: Arlene Carol Dahl
Biography: Arlene Carol Dahl (August 11, 1925 – November 29, 2021) was an American actress active in films from the late 1940s. She was one of the last surviving stars from the Classical Hollywood cinema era. She was also an author and entrepreneur. She founded two companies, Arlene Dahl Enterprises and Dahlia, a fragrance company. Born in Minnesota to parents of Norwegian descent, Dahl started her acting career in musicals before transitioning to film, where she gained significant roles in MGM productions such as "My Wild Irish Rose" (1947) and "The Bride Goes Wild" (1948). Dahl also starred in adventure films, notably "Caribbean Gold" (1952) and "Desert Legion" (1953). Despite her acting success, Dahl faced financial challenges, declaring bankruptcy in 1981. She then entered the field of astrology, writing a syndicated column and operating a premium phoneline company. She also wrote numerous books on beauty and astrology. In her personal life, Dahl had six husbands, including actors Lex Barker and Fernando Lamas, and was the mother to three children the eldest of whom is actor Lorenzo Lamas. She lived between New York City and West Palm Beach, Florida, until her death in 2021. Description above from the Wikipedia article Arlene Dahl, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: August 11, 1925
Age: 99 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: November 29, 2021
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Land Raiders
Overview: An outlaw committing a string of robberies and murders manages to blame the crimes on Apaches, bringing about an Indian war.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-07-27
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
Overview: An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-15
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Slightly Scarlet
Overview: Kleptomaniac Dorothy Lyons is paroled from prison into the custody of her sister June, secretary to "reform" politician Frank Jansen. Ben Grace, associate of crime boss Sol "Solly" Caspar, sees this as a way to smear Jansen's campaign. Seductive Dorothy will do anything to get what she wants, which includes having a good time with Ben-- whom June is now in love with.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-02-29
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Reign of Terror
Overview: The French Revolution, 1794. The Marquis de Lafayette asks Charles D'Aubigny to infiltrate the Jacobin Party to overthrow Maximilian Robespierre, who, after gaining supreme power and establishing a reign of terror ruled by death, now intends to become the dictator of France.
Genres: Drama Thriller History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-15
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Three Little Words
Overview: Song-and-dance man Bert Kalmar can't continue his stage career after an injury, so he has to earn his money as a lyricist. By chance, he meets composer Harry Ruby and their first song is a hit. Ruby gets Kalmar to marry his former partner Jessie Brown, and Kalmar and Jessie prevent Ruby from getting married to the wrong girls. But due to the fact that Ruby has caused a backer's withdrawal for a Kalmar play, they end their professional relationship.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-12
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Wicked as They Come
Overview: A ruthless woman takes advantage of gullible men to climb up the social ladder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-22
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Scene of the Crime
Overview: A cop investigates the shooting of another policeman... that may have been involved in crooked activities.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-28
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The Deadly Dream
Overview: A scientist keeps having dreams that he is marked for murder by a mysterious tribunal for something that he's not aware that he's done, and that his wife and his friends are part of the conspiracy. Soon he's not sure which is the dream and which is reality.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Horror TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-25
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No Questions Asked
Overview: With the help of some seedy gangsters, young attorney Steve Keiver makes some quick cash by bending the law, and in the process, he impresses the mobsters so much that they invite him to work for them on a regular basis. But when Police Inspector Matt Duggan realizes that Steve is working as a middleman for the mob, the young lawyer finds himself in a life-threatening situation. In order to clear his name, he must betray the deadly crooks he's been working for.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-15
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The Bride Goes Wild
Overview: McGrath publishes books for children and Uncle Bump is one of the best sellers. Unfortunately, Greg, who is Uncle Bump, tends to drink too much and has not started his next book. Martha won a contest to illustrate the book and the first thing that happens is that Greg gets her soused. To keep her there to illustrate, John gets a juvenile delinquent named Danny to play his son and show how much pressure he is under. The ploy works at first, but Greg's heart was broken by Tillie, and Martha may be the girl who makes him forget all about her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-03
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Ambush
Overview: A Westerner searches for a white woman held by the Apaches.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-13
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Woman's World
Overview: Needing to fill the position of general manager of his company, and believing that an executive's wife is crucial to her husband's success, auto industry mogul Gifford brings three couples to New York to size up: Jerry and Carol: he hard-driven and self-reliant, she willing to use her beauty to further her husband's career; Sid and Elizabeth, he ulcer-ridden and torn between achieving success and restoring their troubled marriage, she positive that his job will kill him, but gamely agreeing to play the good wife for the duration; and down-to-earth Bill, whose good-natured Katie fears that his promotion would spell the end of their idyllic familiy existence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-30
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Here Come the Girls
Overview: Bob Hope stars as an inept member of the chorus boy in a turn of the century stage show. After being fired, he finds himself starring acting as a decoy when a killer goes after the real star.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-22
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Fortune Is a Woman
Overview: An insurance man discovers his ex-girlfriend and her husband's art-forgery/arson scam.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-13
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The Outriders
Overview: Late in the Civil War, three Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison camp in Missouri. They soon fall into the hands of pro-Confederate raiders, who force them to act as "outriders" (escorts) for a civilian wagon train that will be secretly transporting Union gold from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to St. Louis, Missouri. The three men are to lead the wagons into a raider trap in Missouri, but one of them starts to have misgivings....
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-01
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Glorious Technicolor
Overview: The history of color photography in motion pictures, in particular the Technicolor company's work.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-07
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Sangaree
Overview: Lamas plays an indentured servant who rises to power in Georgia shortly after the Revolutionary War.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-17
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The Diamond Queen
Overview: A French jeweler travels to India in search of a fabulous diamond.
Genres: Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-28
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Caribbean
Overview: Francis Barclay, a former member of the British Admiralty, who was captured in the early 1700s, and sold into slavery, by Andrew McAllister, and forced into piracy, enlists the aid of Dick Lindsay, to help him invade MacAllister's fortified island. The latter falls in love with MacAllister's daughter,Christine.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-01
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Bengal Brigade
Overview: Year 1856, British India. Capt. Jeffrey Claybourne is severely punished after disobeying an order. Feeling unworthy of his fiancée Vivian Morrow, the daughter of his superior officer, Claybourne leaves the army until he could regain his reputation. When the Rajah Karam launches an attack on the British forces in India, Claybourne finds a chance at redemption.
Genres: War Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-06
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Inside Straight
Overview: A tycoon rises to the top in 19th-century San Francisco through greed and corruption.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-01
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Kisses for My President
Overview: A hapless husband takes a back seat to his wife, the first female president of the United States.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-08-21
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My Wild Irish Rose
Overview: Musical biography of Irish 19th century tenor Chauncey Olcott.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-24
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Desert Legion
Overview: A commander in the Foreign Legion romances a mysterious and exotic princess.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-08
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A Southern Yankee
Overview: Red Skelton plays Aubrey Filmore, a feather-brained but lovable bellboy who dreams of becoming an agent for the Union's secret service during the Civil War.
Genres: Comedy History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-05
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Watch the Birdie
Overview: A photographer falls for a rich girl and gets mixed up with crooks.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-11
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Night of the Warrior
Overview: A kickboxer has an accounting problem with the mobster (Anthony Geary) who lent him money for a nightclub.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-01
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Jamaica Run
Overview: Promoter William Montague wants to buy the estate owned by the Daceys, Mrs. Dacey and her daughter Ena and son Todd, in order to build a resort hotel. When they turn him down, he produces a couple of distant relatives, Janice and Robert Clayton, and sets about to prove that the estate rightfully belongs to them. The identity of the rightful heirs is thought to be buried in a sunken ship off of the Jamaican shore and the search begins, led by a schooner skipper, Patrick Fairlie, who is in love with Ena.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-21
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Three Little Words: Two Swell Guys
Overview: A short documentary on the lives of songwriters Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby and the making of the film, Three Little Words.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-04-25
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That's Entertainment!
Overview: Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.
Genres: Documentary Family Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-06-21
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Life with Father
Overview: A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-13
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Katmandu
Overview: A rebellious socially-conscious man travels to Nepal to find his dead-beat dad. There, he meets Jane, a beautiful hippie girl hooked on drugs. He's forced to steal artefacts for his father's slimy employer to earn money to help Jane.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-09-26
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That's Entertainment! III
Overview: Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-01
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The Ponies
Overview: The rise and fall of a journalist, named Max Torp, who runs a youth magazine, a private club, a tour agency and a pirate radio.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-06-12
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That's Dancing!
Overview: A documentary film about dancing on the screen, from it's orgins after the invention of the movie camera, over the movie musical from the late 20s, 30s, 40s 50s and 60s up to the break dance and the music videos from the 80s.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-18
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Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Overview: Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form. Award-winning filmmaker Rick McKay filmed over 100 of the greatest stars ever to work on Broadway or in Hollywood. He soon learned that great films can be restored, fine literature can be kept in print - but historic Broadway performances of the past are the most endangered. They leave only memories that, while more vivid, are more difficult to preserve. In their own words — and not a moment too soon — Broadway: The Golden Age tells the stories of our theatrical legends, how they came to New York, and how they created this legendary century in American theatre. This is the largest cast of legends ever in one film.
Genres: Music Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-03
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Private Screenings: Robert Osborne
Overview: TCM host Robert Osborne discusses his life and career with guest interviewer Alec Baldwin in commemoration of Osborne's 20 years with the network.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-01-06
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Night of 100 Stars
Overview: The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The event, for which ticket-buyers paid up to $1,000 a seat (tax-deductible as a contribution to the Actors' Fund) was billed as "The Night of 100 Stars" but, actually, around 230 stars took part. And most of the audience of 5,800 had no idea in advance that they were paying to see a TV taping, complete with long waits for set and costume changes, tape rewinding, and the like. Executive producer Alexander Cohen estimated that the 5,800 Radio City Music Hall seats sold out at prices ranging from $25 to $1,000. The show itself cost about $4 million to produce and was expected to yield around $2 million for the new addition to the Actors Fund retirement home in Englewood, N. J. ABC is reputed to have paid more than $5 million for the television rights.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-08
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Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Overview: Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age explores the world of Broadway from 1959 through the early 1980s as recounted by a diverse cast of Broadway stars who lived through it, creating a first-hand archive of personal backstage stories and memories. The new documentary is the long-awaited sequel to late filmmaker Rick McKay’s award-winning 2003 film Broadway: The Golden Age, continuing the saga into the '60s and '70s and spotlighting beloved classic Broadway shows including Once Upon a Mattress, Bye Bye Birdie, Barefoot in the Park, Pippin, A Chorus Line, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Chicago, and 42nd Street. Featuring a galaxy of stars including Alec Baldwin, Carol Burnett, Glenn Close, André De Shields, Jane Fonda, Robert Goulet, Liza Minnelli, Chita Rivera, Dick Van Dyke, Ben Vereen, and many more, the film also includes rare archival photos and never-before-seen footage both onstage and off.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-08-14
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Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression
Overview: A two-hour in-depth exploration into the Hollywood musicals of the 1930s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Elvis & Pat Boone Rockin' Rivals
Overview: Elvis Presley & Pat Boone were two of the hottest forces on the early rock ‘n’ roll music scene in the 1950’s. In this toe-tapping documentary, the good-nature chart-topping rivalry between the duo is explored through rare footage and newsreels. Interviews include Dick Clark, Tom Jones, Kenny Rogers, Glen Campbell, Phyllis McGuire, Bill Medley, Arlene Dahl, Joe Esposito, Shirley Jones and others.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-18
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Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
Overview: A TV special on the 100th anniversary of the birth of film.
Genres: Family Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-18
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