Actor / Director Profile

The story goes that blonde, extremely well-endowed looker Dolores Moran was checked out at an annual Elks Lodge picnic by a Warner Brothers talent scout in the early 40s and a starlet was born. Dolores was a popular pin-up item with soldiers after appearing on magazine covers. Typically utilized in small, busty film parts from 1942 on, she achieved a bit of distinction, or perhaps distraction, in Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins' tearjerker Old Acquaintance (1943), Bogie and Bacall's To Have and Have Not (1944), and Jack Benny's The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945). In 1947 she first worked with producer Benedict Bogeaus in the film Christmas Eve (1947). They eventually married in 1952, but not without scandal. They had one son. Her film career sagged after that, appearing strictly in her husband's pictures, her last being Silver Lode (1954). They divorced in the early 60s and not much was heard from Dolores until newspapers reported her death at age 58 in 1982.