RIP ARLENE DAHL

1925-2021

Arlene Dahl was born on August 11, 1925, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  Like Lucille Ball, she was a red-haired actress with an association to MGM who achieved notability during the 1950s.

She was mentioned as one of Ricky’s possible “Don Juan” co-stars in “Ricky’s Screen Test” 

(ILL S4;E7 ~ November 15, 1954).

Although TV audiences didn’t know it, an article about Dahl and her new husband, Lex Barker, was featured inside the actual Look magazine seen on screen in 

“Men Are Messy” (ILL S1;E8) aired on December 3, 1951. 

A story about Dahl and her second husband, Fernando Lamas, was part of this January 1954 issue of TV and Movie Screen with Lucy on the cover. 

Lamas guest-starred in “Lucy Goes to Sun Valley”(LDCH S1;E5) aired on April 14, 1958. Two years later, in 1960, like Ball herself, Dahl was divorced from her Latin husband. They had one child together, Lorenzo. Dahl has two other children: a daughter Christina Carole Holmes by third husband Christian R. Holmes, and a second son, Rounsevelle Andreas Schaum, by her fifth husband, Rounsevelle W. “Skip” Schaum. She has six grandchildren (including AJ Lamas and Shayne Lamas) and two great-grandchildren.

Desi dines with Dahl and Lamas. 

Lucy attended the launch of Dahl’s book “Always Ask a Man” in 1965. 

She joined Lucille Ball to be part of “Bob Hope’s Leading Ladies” a  “Bob Hope Comedy Special” on September 28, 1966, although the two did not share any scenes together. 

In 1987, Lucille and Arlene both were part of “Happy 100th Birthday Hollywood”, a TV special that aired on May 18, 1987.  

Arlene Dahl died at the age of 96.