Diana Dors

[MrsBsDayOff]

Any fans on here? That's her in my profile picture.

British actress of the 40s-80s, a sex symbol in her day. She was a good actress and a great raconteur. Mixed with dodgy characters. Tabloids gleefully reported on her notorious sex parties. Sadly she died in her early 50s from cancer. There was an interesting Ch4 programme 20 years ago about her money which was in various bank accounts which her son was trying to trace.

 

[Rockin' Robin]

Absolutely love her. She was a very underated actress. I see you have a photo of a very young Diana, as your avatar.

 

[MrsBsDayOff]

Absolutely love her. She was a very underated actress. I see you have a photo of a very young Diana, as your avatar.

Yes, she always intrigued me. Watched her in old B&W movies that used to be on tv, mainly Talking Pictures you see that sort of stuff now.

It's sad that her husband took his own life a few months after she died. Her son Jason died at 50 a couple of years ago. He seemed to have an alcohol problem going by videos I watched of him.

 

[Infernal Love]

Absolutely love her, Yield to the Night is her best role in my opinion, she carries an entire gritty film on her shoulders as the cast is tiny. A real shining moment there.

She's brilliant any time she popped up, from sweet young thing in "A Kid For Two Farthings" or as a brassy old dame in a spooky Hammer House of Horror. I love that she knew why she was loved and played into it like in the Adam Ant music videos. You really, truly, do not get them like Diana anymore

 

[Rockin' Robin]

One of my favourite films with Diana in, is The amazing Mr Blunden. It illustrated what a fine character actress she was.

 

[Dotty Merton]

I have really only been aware of her in her later years, that early pic is lovely. Read about the money/will/codes, an sad interview with the son who was a kid when she was holding her saucy parties, how she almost made it in Hollywood but her bloke was a prick and upset someone at just the wrong moment. I shall watch one of her early films this weekend though the outline for "A Kid For Two Farthings" is a bit odd...... he means a goat right? Tell me it means a goat!

'In a lower-class London community of small shops, open-air vendors and flea-marketers, Joe, a small boy, lives with his mother, Joanne, who works in and rooms above the Kandinsky tailor shop. Joe is innocently and earnestly determined to help realize the wishes of his poor, hard-working neighbours. Hearing from Mr. Kandinsky the tale that a captured unicorn will grant any wish, Joe uses his accumulated pocket change to buy a kid with an emerging horn...'

I used to love Hammer House of Horror, I was allowed to stay up for that, I remember the werewolf/oldhotel/fullmoonbehindthecurtains one scared me so much I think we all screamed and Dad turned the tv off

 

[MrsBsDayOff]

I have really only been aware of her in her later years, that early pic is lovely. Read about the money/will/codes, an sad interview with the son who was a kid when she was holding her saucy parties, how she almost made it in Hollywood but her bloke was a prick and upset someone at just the wrong moment. I shall watch one of her early films this weekend though the outline for "A Kid For Two Farthings" is a bit odd...... he means a goat right? Tell me it means a goat!

'In a lower-class London community of small shops, open-air vendors and flea-marketers, Joe, a small boy, lives with his mother, Joanne, who works in and rooms above the Kandinsky tailor shop. Joe is innocently and earnestly determined to help realize the wishes of his poor, hard-working neighbours. Hearing from Mr. Kandinsky the tale that a captured unicorn will grant any wish, Joe uses his accumulated pocket change to buy a kid with an emerging horn...'

I used to love Hammer House of Horror, I was allowed to stay up for that, I remember the werewolf/oldhotel/fullmoonbehindthecurtains one scared me so much I think we all screamed and Dad turned the tv off

It's a sweet movie, you'll like it. The child in it is now a well known professor, I googled him a while back

 

[Infernal Love]

I have really only been aware of her in her later years, that early pic is lovely. Read about the money/will/codes, an sad interview with the son who was a kid when she was holding her saucy parties, how she almost made it in Hollywood but her bloke was a prick and upset someone at just the wrong moment. I shall watch one of her early films this weekend though the outline for "A Kid For Two Farthings" is a bit odd...... he means a goat right? Tell me it means a goat!

'In a lower-class London community of small shops, open-air vendors and flea-marketers, Joe, a small boy, lives with his mother, Joanne, who works in and rooms above the Kandinsky tailor shop. Joe is innocently and earnestly determined to help realize the wishes of his poor, hard-working neighbours. Hearing from Mr. Kandinsky the tale that a captured unicorn will grant any wish, Joe uses his accumulated pocket change to buy a kid with an emerging horn...'

I used to love Hammer House of Horror, I was allowed to stay up for that, I remember the werewolf/oldhotel/fullmoonbehindthecurtains one scared me so much I think we all screamed and Dad turned the tv off

Haha, yeah it's a baby goat with one horn which he thinks makes it magical (like a unicorn) it's really sweet

 

[Dotty Merton]

Then I shall watch tomorrow whilst scoffing chocolate and tattling all day in me pj's, its the season for baby goats after all!

Am loving the pix of her pre peroxide.

 

[HowlOwl]

She had a less glamorous role as a scary older lady in this drama … I remember reading that the “wart” was actually a Rice Krispie!

Diana Dors as Mrs. Wickens – ‘The Amazing Mr. Blunden’ – 1972 | Regis Autographs

www.regisautographs.com

 

[bignellie]

i get severly pissed off when someone says gemma collins is like a young diana dors, yeah less the figure and talent!

 

[hypoharpy]

Never got the credit she deserved.

 

[Prince fan 1999]

Loved her. First knew of her when she was in the Prince charming video. Her son Jason went to my school but he was a couple of years above me. The book "connecting Dors" is a good read. Read this a couple of times.

 

[Clovis]

She was also in David Lean's Oliver Twist. My favourite story about Dors involves a vicar introducing her at the local garden fête. Her birth name was Fluck and the vicar had rehearsed to avoid making an embarrassing mistake, however legend has it that this was what he said:

"Ladies and gentlemen, it is with great pleasure that I introduce to you our star guest. We all love her, especially as she is our local girl. I therefore feel it right to introduce her by her real name.

“Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the very lovely Miss Diana Clunt!"

 

[Libbylulu]

Died years before her time.

 

[MrsBsDayOff]

Died years before her time.

Yeah it's so sad, she was taken too soon. Awful that she died then her hubby killed himself soon after and poor Jason was orphaned and went down a slippery path. Her career was on the up again too with the Adam Ant video, chat show appearances as a raconteur and her TVAM stint, then bloody cancer got her.

If she was still with us she would probably be on Loose Women, This Morning etc and probably have got a role in Eastenders and become one of the top cast.

 

[Whl1994]

Any fans on here? That's her in my profile picture.

British actress of the 40s-80s, a sex symbol in her day. She was a good actress and a great raconteur. Mixed with dodgy characters. Tabloids gleefully reported on her notorious sex parties. Sadly she died in her early 50s from cancer. There was an interesting Ch4 programme 20 years ago about her money which was in various bank accounts which her son was trying to trace.

Absolutely love Diana Dors. Yield to the Night was her best film. Stunning, lovely lady

 

[Noir Fan]

I haven’t seen this yet, but thought it may be right for this forum. I’m watching it as I type. Mike Wallace is not a kind interviewer, and I don’t expect him to be on this interview. Also, please excuse the endless cigarette commercials. This was filmed in 1957, I believe.

I am a Marilyn Monroe fan, and I’m not familiar with Diana, besides hearing of her. I will make sure to look up some of her films.

 

[Eirawen]

i get severly pissed off when someone says gemma collins is like a young diana dors, yeah less the figure and talent!
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SHe is nothing like Diana

Yeah it's so sad, she was taken too soon. Awful that she died then her hubby killed himself soon after and poor Jason was orphaned and went down a slippery path. Her career was on the up again too with the Adam Ant video, chat show appearances as a raconteur and her TVAM stint, then bloody cancer got her.

If she was still with us she would probably be on Loose Women, This Morning etc and probably have got a role in Eastenders and become one of the top cast.

she would have been brilliant as Peggy Mitchell in EE, better than Babs I think.

 

[Piff paff puff]

What a great Beauty she was, talented and intelligent too, a true British icon.