> Born Mary Leta Dorothy Slaton in New Orleans, Louisiana, Dorothy Lamour starred in seven of the eight Road pictures with leading men Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. Before the first Road picture was made in 1940 Lamour already a strong career. She had started singing on the New York stage, where an impressed Rudy Vallee helped her further her career which eventually caught the eye of Metro Goldwyn Mayer head Louis B. Mayer. Ultimately she signed with Paramount Studios and found her niche playing exotic leading ladies. In 1946 the Paramount publicity department helped Lamour stage a public sarong burning in hopes of branching out from the jungle goddesses she had been associated with from the beginning of her film career.

> While Lamour was quoted saying she was the happiest and highest paid straight woman in history she did at one point beg Bob Hope to let her in on the quick, witty banter the two leading men shared in the Road pictures. Hope told her to just keeping swinging her sarong and she'd be just fine. There were a few times on the sets of Road pictures that the boys and Lamour had to come to an understanding. Once after filming a scene in which Bob and Bing splashed soapsuds on Lamour with perhaps a bit too much enthusiasm, "Dottie" was sufficiently infuriated enough to follow the boys into the commissary and dump an entire container of suds on their heads, effectively scuttling hours of shooting as Hope and Crosby were being dried out.

> Road to Utopia is the fourth of the eight Road pictures and the only one in which Bob Hope gets Lamour. Many find this to be the best of the eight Road pictures and Lamour is probably best remembered for the scene in which she wears an incredibly snug dress and sings the song Personality. Having spent hours in hair and make up that morning Lamour walked off set, escorted by Gary Cooper, at 4:30pm after Crosby and Hope didn't show up on set. "The next day was all patched up," she recalled. "But they didn't pull another stunt like that ever again."