Slightly Scarlett

Rhonda Fleming & Arlene Dahl


Arlene Dahl


Rhonda Fleming

All this serious talk makes me yearn for some 1950s Hollywood Artifice.

Rhonda Fleming and Arlene Dahl were B stars in the 40s and 50s. Rhonda tended to be in Westerns and Arlene made for more sophisticated window dressing. They both had red hair and someone had the bright idea to cast them as good girl/bad girl sisters in a color film noir potboiler called "Slightly Scarlett." I bought this DVD for about 10 cents and it is worth it only to watch Rhonda pick up Arlene from prison in the first 5 minutes. It wasn't very good and if you want to see a better good girl/bad girl sisters B movie, go for Uma Thurman and Kim Basinger in "Final Analysis." Incidentally, Arlene Dahl stole Fernando Lamas away from Esther Williams back in the day and is the mother of creepy Lorenzo Lamas.