Monday Reads

 A man is competing in a women's beauty pageant.

Beauty pageants are an anachronism, but who in the hell would watch any show with men parading in drag?

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Regarding Michael Flynn saying Q-Anon is nonsense, that goes to show that a shattered clock is right twice a day.

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Obituary:  Actress Arlene Dahl, 96, has died, her son Lorenzo Lamas announced.  She was frequently seen on movies and television back in the 1950s and 1960s.  She was once married to Argentine heartthrob Fernando Lamas for a number of years before Esther Williams got stuck with him following his divorce from Dahl.

Dahl with Lamas, 1954

I have written about the Williams-Lamas marriage when I did Esther's obit close to a decade ago on this blog.  He was a very strange, very misogynist dude.  He was great eye candy in his prime, though.  His and Arlene's son Lorenzo wasn't bad on the eyes, either.

Anyway, his ex-wife had a successful career of her own in Hollywood and also in business:

Born in Minneapolis, Dahl started out as a model and worked in theater before coming to Hollywood in 1946. She was briefly under contract at Warner Bros., then signed with MGM.

Her first MGM film was “The Bride Goes Wild,” starring Van Johnson and June Allyson. She went on to appear in “Reign of Terror,” “Three Little Words,” “Woman’s World,” “Slightly Scarlet” and “Journey to the Center of the Earth.”

Her other films included “A Southern Yankee,” “Scene of the Crime,” “Desert Legion” and “Jamaica Run,” which starred Fernando Lamas, who she would marry.

While still working as an actress in TV and films, she founded Arlene Dahl Enterprises in the mid-1950s and sold lingerie and cosmetics, as well as becoming a beauty columnist. After leaving the acting business, she worked as an executive in advertising and for Sears, Roebuck & Co and founded a perfume company.

She did okay and had a long life.  She was survived by her husband (her sixth), three children, several grandchildren, and several great-grandchildren.

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