Dorothy Lamour

She is interred in the Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. But she silenced her critics in 1958, when four of her films turned out to be superhits - Phagun, Howrah Bridge opposite Ashok Kumar, Kala Pani opposite Dev Anand and Chalti ka Naam Gaadi opposite her future husband Kishore Kumar. Dororthy Lamour died at her home in North Hollywood, California at the age of 81. This also led to a lean phase in her career. Some of Dorothy Lamour's other notable films include The Hurricane (1937), Disputed Passage (1939), Beyond the Blue Horizon (1942), Dixie (1943), and On Our Merry Way (1948). Her romance with Dilip Kumar didn't blossom due to opposition by her conservative family. She appeared in a series of road movies with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope in the 1940s and 1950s. Madhubala's off-screen life was a tragedy.

While she first achieved stardom as a sex symbol, Lamour also showed talent as both a comic and dramatic actress. Many other hits followed Mahal. She wore a sarong, which would become associated with her, and captivated many viewers with her sensuous exotic attractive appearance. The song Aayega Aanewaala made the careers of Madhubala as well as the playback singer Lata Mangeshkar. The role that made her a star was Ulah (a sort of female Tarzan) in The Jungle Princess (1936). The film became a super hit. In 1936 she moved to Hollywood and began appearing regularly in films for Paramount Pictures, first in bit parts. In 1949, Madhubala starred in Bombay Talkies production Mahal.

She also sang on the popular Rudy Vallee radio show. Her big break came when Kidar Sharma gave her a change to act opposite Raj Kapoor in Neel Kamal (1947). She got a job singing with the band of Herbie Kay, who became her first husband. Her first film was Basant (1942). After winning the title of Miss New Orleans in a beauty pageant she moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1931, hoping to become a professional singer. She entered Bollywood as a child-artist under the name Baby Mumtaz. Lamour's birth name was Mary Leta Dorothy Slaton; Lamour came from the name of her step-father. Her birth name was Mumtaz Jahan Begum.

Dorothy Lamour (December 10, 1914 - September 22, 1996) was a motion picture actress, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, died in Hollywood, California. Madhubala was born as the 5th child into a poor Muslim family of 11 children. "Glamour is just sex that got civilized.". She was married to the famous playback singer and actor Kishore Kumar. Her major motion pictures include Mahal and Mughal-e-Azam. Madhubala (February 14, 1933 - February 23, 1969) is considered one of most beautiful actresses to have graced the screens of Bollywood.