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Arlene Dahl in 2015
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The US actress Arlene Dahl died on Monday morning in New York.
Her son Lorenzo Lamas announced this on social networks.
"I will remember the laughter, joy and dignity with which she mastered the challenges she faced," wrote the actor.
"She was really a force of nature."
Dahl was born in Minneapolis in 1925 to Norwegian immigrants.
She was discovered on stage in high school, joined a theater company and went to New York, where she modeled and appeared in Broadway plays.
In 1950 she sang and danced in "Three Little Words," a film musical about songwriters Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, in which she played Ruby's wife Eileen Percy at the side of Red Skelton.
After she had dyed her hair red for the first time, Dahl was cast as the hero's lover in adventure films such as "Die Geliebte des Korsaren" (1952), "The Blue Stone of the Maharajah" (1953) or "Rifles for Bengali" (1954) .
Dahl was also convincing in other roles, for example as a psychopath in "Straße des Verbrechens" (1956)
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In "The Journey to the Center of the Earth" from 1959, her best-known role, Dahl plays the widow of a scientist who embarks on a harrowing journey to the core of the earth.
After the end of her film career, Dahl stayed on television, including a three-year role in the soap opera "One Life to Live".
In the 1980s she made frequent appearances on the series "The Love Boat", and in the late 1990s she had guest roles in the series "Renegade" and "Air America" of her son Lamas.
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Dahl became almost as famous for her six marriages, for example with actors Lex Barker and Fernando Lamas, as for her acting career.
Dahl used her celebrated beauty to become an entrepreneur herself.
Dahl wrote a column about beauty tips, launched her own cosmetics brand and lingerie she designed.
In the 1960s, Dahl wrote several beauty guides, including "Always Ask a Man: Arlene Dahl's Key to Femininity".
Arlene Dahl was 96 years old.
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