Want to know the best Arlene Dahl movies? How about the worst Arlene Dahl movies? Curious about Arlene Dahl box office grosses or which Arlene Dahl movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Arlene Dahl movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which got the worst reviews? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
Arlene Dahl (1925-2021) was an American actress whose heyday was from the late 1940s to the mid 1950s. Her IMDb page shows 47 acting credits from 1947-1999. This page will rank Arlene Dahl movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Dahl’s 16 television roles, her 5 movies not released in North American theaters and her one uncredited role were not included in these rankings.
Drivel Part: Ok…when Flora first suggested we do an Arlene Dahl page…our first response was…Who? Since being enlightened by Flora…it seems we have been seeing Arlene Dahl’s name everywhere we turn. Recently we watched our first Arlene Dahl movie…1954’s Woman’s World. Then Steve Lensman did a Lex Barker (one of her husbands) page and she got mentioned again. Well today, Bob, brought up Arlene Dahl in one of his comments. That was the final sign….seems the forces that be…want us to do a Arlene Dahl page….and we finally listened….and now have an UMR Dahl page.
Arlene Dahl Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Arlene Dahl Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- Sort Arlene Dahl movies by the stars of his movies
- Sort Arlene Dahl movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Arlene Dahl movies by yearly domestic box office rank
- Sort Arlene Dahl movies how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Arlene Dahl movie received.
- Sort Arlene Dahl movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
Arlene Dahl Adjusted World Wide Box Office Grosses
Check out Arlene Dahl career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time
Possibly Interesting Facts About Arlene Dahl
1. Arlene Carol Dahl was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1925.
2. According to HotBirthdays.com….Arlene Dahl is the 3rd most popular “Arlene” of all-time.
3. Arlene Dahl’s very first movie….1947’s My Wild Irish Rose…was the biggest box office hit of her career.
4. Arlene Dahl wrote three books….her most successful book was 1965’s Always Ask a Man: Arlene Dahl’s Key to Femininity
5. Arlene Dahl stopped making movies in 1959. She became a beauty columnist and writer. She later established herself as a businesswoman, founding Arlene Dahl Enterprises which marketed lingerie and cosmetics.
6. Arlene Dahl was married six times, two of whom were actors actors Lex “Tarzan” Barker and Fernando Lamas.
7. Arlene Dahl had three children…her first child is the actor, Lorenzo Lamas.
8. Check out Arlene Dahl‘s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
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Son Lorenzo Lamas has announced that his mother Arlene Dahl has died at the age of 96. So few stars of classic Hollywood are still living. Rest in peace.
Hey Flora…. I feel so bad…. I completely missed the news of her passing at the end of November….well…I just updated her page…..and included her on our In Memorium page. This was a request from you 5 years ago when she was a young 91…..we can all hope to reach 96. Rest in Peace Mrs. Dahl.
HI STEVE
You will understand how much pleasure your Arlene Dahl video has given me when I say that she was the love interest of some of my 1950s B movie heroes – The Cowboy of the Century in Ambush, Joel McCrea in The Outriders, Laddie in Desert Legion, John Payne in Caribbean Gold [aka Caribbean} and Slightly Scarlet and Fernando Lamas [whom she married] in Sangaree. I liked her also in 1957’s Fortune is a Woman [aka She Played with Fire] starring Brit great Jack Hawkins. It always brings back to me happy memories seeing posters for movies like all of those.
After Fortune is a Woman her career declined, though she continued to make movies sporadically until 1991 and stayed on television until 1999. By 1969 though she had strayed into sub-standard fare such as The Pleasure Pit a French film with drugs and presumably some “raunch” in it judging by that title and its aka, The Dirty Dolls of Katmandu. She also played herself in a 2003 documentary movie Broadway: The Golden Age.
Despite its relative brevity my scores add up to a solid 97.5% for this video. Bruce and you agree on 3 of Arlene’s Top 5 beat reviewed flicks with those as the Top 3 and in the same order in both your lists – Journey to the Centre of the Earth, 3 Little Words and She Played with Fire.
Of course you and I contributed comments to this page when WH introduced it way last year. Naturally mine are worth reading again.
My pick of the almost total run of raunchy posters throughout your Dahl video is (1) Diamond Queen pairing Arlene with real life hubby Fernando Lamas as hero Jean Baptiste Tavernier (2) both for Caribbean Gold [I saw it on a double bill in 1952 with Betty Hutton’s virtual swan song Somebody Loves Me] (3) foreign language one for Bengal Brigade (4) first 2 for Then Outriders (5) foreign language one for Here Come the Girls (6) My Wild Irish Rose [at last a plug for us!]
(7) the first and exceptionally suggestive one for Slightly Scarlet (7) 1st one for Ambush (8) foreign language one for Black Book [it was only when you quoted the Reign of Terror aka that I recalled that movie] (9) Woman’s World (10) 2 crackers for Journey/ Centre Earth and (11) the entire set for Laddie’s Desert Legion – they don’t make em like that anymore!
Best STILLS for me are (1) with hubby Fernando Lamas in Sangaree – he was part of the movie “Latin Lover” craze in the 1950s. When he was finished with Arlene he romanced and later married Esther Williams (2) “slave girl” Arlene in Laddie’s Desert Legion*** – I vividly recall taking my younger brothers to see that one at a 1953 matinee (3) with McCrea (4) with Van Johnson (5) with Red Skelton and Ann Miller – it’s a wonder that Laddie and The Duke weren’t after him with a Christian name like that (6) two of the 50s bombshells together, Arlene and my Rhonda (7) Arlene with Fred and Red (8) her with the Cowboy of the Century in a seemingly posed still for Ambush.
*** I couldn’t help thinking of Alan Ladd when I read an article in a Sunday paper in which some guy claims that that Parliamentary Speaker fellow of yours had an affair with his wife. The headline screamed out “Brexit sex dwarf Bercow stole my wife!” Still he can’t be all bad Bercow as he was criticised for not spending enough time in the House of Commons because he insisted upon going off to watch every Roger Federer tennis match.
Hi Bob, thanks for the review, rating, comment, info, trivia, quote and comparison, always appreciated. Glad you liked the posters, stills and lobby cards.
It’s been nearly 2 years since Bruce created a page for Arlene, how time flies!
I knew her primarily from Journey to the Center of the Earth, a film I’ve watched many times especially in my younger days.
And she’s still around – 93 years old – old enough to be your mother Bob! 🙂
You’re right ‘Red Skelton’ can’t have been a comfortable name during the 1950s cold war with the Russkies. How did he get away with it?
No 10 or 9 scores in Arlene’s filmography from my sources, there are 5 films scoring 8 out of 10 including Journey to the Center of the Earth and Three Little Words.
Four films scored 7.1 at IMDB including the aforementioned two, and Three Little Words is tops at Rotten Tomatoes.
Is May still PM? How many lives does she have left? Plan B.. C.. D? Are we ever leaving the EU? What an almighty mess we’re in.
HI STEVE As usual you have backed up an entertaining video with a thoughtful response to my own post(s) and I much appreciate that.
It seems that NOBODY ever leaves the EU. Southern Ireland voted to leave but were made to vote again and stayed in and now it appears our politicians one way or another are attempting to ensure that at the very most we leave in name only. Even then the bookies are forecasting that by 2026 we will apply to fully re-join if we do get out in some fashion. Possibly therefore Mother Theresa’s oft repeated pronouncement will in the end prove correct “Nothing has changed!”
Certainly if Archie Leach, who was eight years younger than Jessie Royce Landis, could play her son in North by Northwest I could be Arlene’s son! But hey! – I’m no Mother’s Boy and I fancy myself as a “senior” Gigolo
Everywhere I go just a gigolo,
People know the part I’m playing.
Paid for every dance, selling each romance,
Every night some heart betraying.
There will come a day youth will pass away,
Then what will they say about me?
When the end come, I know, they’ll say “Just a Gigolo”
As life goes on without me.
Apparently when Bing sang that famous song the lyrics were rearranged so that he was singing about ANOTHER GUY who was a gigolo as it was felt that it would have ruined his Mister White Christmas image to confess to being a gigolo personally even in a song. Lovely recording by him though. Please take care.
Cogerson
Who are the first two most popular “Arlene’s”
Arlene Francis?
I cant think of another.
Hey John….not sure how they came up with their rankings….but here are the Top 4
4th Arlene Francis. (Your pick)
3rd Arlene Dahl
2nd Arlene Dickinson…a very successful business woman
1st Arlene Foster…Congresswoman
A fun list even if it is not explained.
Cogerson
Went to the internet to look up Arlene Foster & Arlene Dickenson. I had never heard of either.
Arlene Foster is apparently, unless I got the wrong person, a British politician. I’m not even that interested in American politicians. I’ll leave comments on her to Bob and Steve.
Arlene Dickinson is apparently a South African businesswoman. I stick with Arlene Francis as the one I think of first among the Arlenes. For younger folks, she was a very witty panelist on the old What’s My Line TV program.
I guess I could have made it easier for you….here is the link. http://www.famousbirthdays.com/names/arlene.html As for Arlene Foster…you got the right one…I thought she was a US congress woman….but she is actually from Ireland.
Cogerson
Arlene Dahl? I have seen her in your top five movies and several others. The one which lingers most in my memory is Three Little Words. Journey to the Center of the Earth is a good, but not outstanding sci-fi flick. My take on Ms. Dahl. Well, she is a pretty woman with red hair who has made little impression on this viewer other than being pretty and having red hair which looks striking in Technicolor. She reminds me a bit of the snow-capped mountains at the Lone Pine locations which were used in so many westerns. She provides beautiful scenery. She was competent, though, and I don’t remember a performance which hurt any of her movies, but also for me forgettable. Easy to understand why she was never a big star. A female John Gavin.
Hey John….good breakdown on Arlene Dahl. Having only seen one Dahl movie I can not argue against or for your view. But from what I have read….I think a female version of John Gavin seems pretty good.
Having at one time being married to a red head I can also easily agree with you about her being part of the pretty scenery.
Cogerson
There are mistakes and then there are MISTAKES. Confusing Bob with me? Oh my, is Bob going to be out of sorts about this one . . . lol. But thanks for an error which flatters me. Still in box office terms, it is like confusing Titanic with Ishtar.
Hey John…back home…..which means I can fix errors….and I fixed the Bob/John error right away.
I just saw Journey To The Center Of The Earth again today Feb 2 on FXM Retro and loved her performance as well as her beauty. 1st saw this when I was 7 or 8 years old (born in ’62) and have seen it many times. She added at warmth and humor also to the adventurous and lively movie (loved all of the characters’ energy and clean-cut performances).
Hey Mike…..great comment. I think Journey To The Center of the Earth is her best movie. Nice review of the movie and her performance in that movie.