Today would have been actress Dorothy Lamour’s 102nd birthday. She is best known for her films with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. Better known as the “Road” pictures. Another film she is known for is ‘The Greatest Show on Earth” which was nearly entirely filmed in Sarasota. If you watch the film there is a scene of the circus parade right along Main Street in Downtown Sarasota. If you go there now many of the buildings in that scene are still there today. In one of the photos below you will see the Gator Bar. It’s still there today!

Dorothy Lamour was born today in 1914 in New Orleans and died in Los Angeles on September 22nd, 1996.

(Please forgive the lack of color. Projects and events are trimming my time mighty short right now)