When you started off as a singer for a big band, got into movies but couldn’t really act; your whole movie career started when you wore a sarong, and it pretty much became your trademark… how do you break out of it?
Who cares? Dorothy Lamour did it with Hope and Crosby in The Road To… series, and really, that was all it took. That, and extraordinary beauty.
(more of this pic at the end…)
And, as promised:
By the way, Dorothy was a staunch Republican and supporter of Ronald Reagan.