Dolores Moran

Dolores Moran was an American model and film actress who worked in the 1940s and 1950s. Born in Stockton, California, she began at Warner Bros. in 1942 with a seven-year contract, when she was sixteen. She made her acting debut in Old Acquaintance (1943) and also had uncredited roles in films such as Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), becoming a pin-up model on magazine covers such as Yank. Warner Bros. promoted her with Lauren Bacall at the time of To Have and Have Not (1944), but she did not become a star, and later films did little to advance her career. In The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945) she played a lead alongside Jack Benny and Alexis Smith. Her later film appearances were sporadic, and she ended her screen career in 1954 with a featured part in the western Silver Lode. She died in 1982.