Dorothy Lamour Lovelight in the Starlight

There are two things for which Dorothy Lamour will probably be best remembered. The first is the famous sarong she sported in several of her fifty-two films, and the second the way she kept, or rather tried to keep, order between Bing Crosby and Bob Hope in the 'Road' pictures. She had lots of fun playing one off against the other, demonstrating how adept she could be at holding her own against the scheming pair. Look at any of her pictures now, moving or still, and it becomes easy to see why she was one of an elite class of female stars such as Betty Grable, Jane Russell, Lana Turner and Rita Hayworth who were favourite pin-ups of World War II servicemen. Indeed, Life magazine in 1941 declared her to be the No. 1 pin-up of the U.S. Army.