Thread for celebs of the past. 
A new discovery for me, Yvonne Buckingham who played Christine Keeler.
A new discovery for me, Yvonne Buckingham who played Christine Keeler.
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Thank you for doing this.Thread for celebs of the past.
A new discovery for me, Yvonne Buckingham who played Christine Keeler.
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I don’t remember her, not quite that old, but remember reading a few articles about her.
The sad last picture of Sabrina, British Marilyn Monroe
This is the sad last picture of Sabrina, the women who became famous as Britain's answer to Marilyn Monroe. DailyMail.com can reveal she- died in agony in North Hollywood, drug addicted and in pain.
Not sure why, but the Mail link does not open. So trying this Express one.
Norma Ann Sykes: The sad decline of Britain’s Marilyn Monroe
SHE FOUND fame on hit 1950s comedy show Before Your Very Eyes and her breasts were insured for £100,000 but blonde bombshell Sabrina died a recluse.
I just popped on to say, it begins and ends with Margaret Rutherford for me 
Are you sure? It worked for me. I'd never heard of Sabrina! Here's a clip.Thank you for doing this.
I don’t remember her, not quite that old, but remember reading a few articles about her.
The sad last picture of Sabrina, British Marilyn Monroe
This is the sad last picture of Sabrina, the women who became famous as Britain's answer to Marilyn Monroe. DailyMail.com can reveal she- died in agony in North Hollywood, drug addicted and in pain.www.dailymail.co.uk
Not sure why, but the Mail link does not open. So trying this Express one.
Norma Ann Sykes: The sad decline of Britain’s Marilyn Monroe
SHE FOUND fame on hit 1950s comedy show Before Your Very Eyes and her breasts were insured for £100,000 but blonde bombshell Sabrina died a recluse.www.express.co.uk
Thank you for doing this. I can see I'm going to be down an IMDB/Wikipedia rabbit hole with this threadThread for celebs of the past.
A new discovery for me, Yvonne Buckingham who played Christine Keeler.
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Not sure why the Mail won’t open for me. It did the first time, but not since!!??
Diana Dors, very famous, but probably not to a lot of people. She was a caricature character but I saw her in an old black and white movie Yield to the Night which was riveting.
Me too. My favourite waste of time
She got lots of kudos for a change of direction in that role, as far as I can make out. It would have been interesting to see how her career would have been later in the 80s and 90s had she lived longer.
Agreed. She was starting to get roles as a character actress rather than the ex blonde bombshell. She had quite the life, with lots of tragedies. Her widower came to a tragic end too, and her son too.
Yes she did have quite a life, which seems to be the case with a few actresses of the time, particularly if they achieved success at a young age. Perhaps it's not that different now, though.
Carry On's Charles Hawtrey. Had Tattle been around in the 70s / 80s, he'd have generated enough material to fill 100 threads.
YIELD TO THE NIGHT
holy tit, @House of Tea ive been wracking my brains about this film for years, I knew it was Diana Dors in a “serious” role and every time I’ve gone to Google it I’ve forgotten why I’m there
I saw it when I was a teen and an absolutely humungous Morrissey/Smiths fan and I really loved it, that and Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
THANK YOU
She's been in so many things. Superb in Victim with Dirk Bogarde, about a man being blackmailed for being gay. A brave film for 1961. I love Dirk Bogarde too.
I was going to add her earlier. She was so beautiful too.
And an interesting person. So many pre and post war British talent. I discovered her when she played the Queen Mother in the 2006 film The Queen.
I didn't know whether to mention David Niven but he is so under rated. Excellent comic timing.
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Terence Stamp, David Hemings and Malcolm McDowell were not of my era, but I found them mesmerising when I saw their films.
Kate O Mara always fascinated me. She turned up on The Colbys and Triangle, but she was in a lot of Hammer Horror and similar as the Dolly bird. She always looked other worldly. I went and saw her in a matinee in a West End theatre when I lived in the area. I was wandering near the theatre an hour or so before the show and she was sitting at a table outside a cafe holding court with her admirers. This was late 90s, she would be approaching 60. She had an aura, old school starriness. I was sitting next to a couple of Americans in the audience and they said, oh my gawd, would you look at her bosom! She did have an amazing figure.
Kate O Mara always fascinated me. She turned up on The Colbys and Triangle, but she was in a lot of Hammer Horror and similar as the Dolly bird. She always looked other worldly. I went and saw her in a matinee in a West End theatre when I lived in the area. I was wandering near the theatre an hour or so before the show and she was sitting at a table outside a cafe holding court with her admirers. This was late 90s, she would be approaching 60. She had an aura, old school starriness. I was sitting next to a couple of Americans in the audience and they said, oh my gawd, would you look at her bosom! She did have an amazing figure.
The tragedy of her early demise from cancer, followed shortly by her husband's suicide, leaving their child an orphan. Jason Dors Lake himself died prematurely aged 50, alcohol and substance abuse were believed to be a factor.
If Diana had been a cancer survivor, how different everything could have been. She was a very talented, but underrated actress, and marketed as a budget Marilyn Monroe.
Remember her very well,how sad she ended up like that,remember the actress Anita Ekberg?Married to British actor Anthony Steele..god that was years ago.Thank you for doing this.
I don’t remember her, not quite that old, but remember reading a few articles about her.
The sad last picture of Sabrina, British Marilyn Monroe
This is the sad last picture of Sabrina, the women who became famous as Britain's answer to Marilyn Monroe. DailyMail.com can reveal she- died in agony in North Hollywood, drug addicted and in pain.
Not sure why, but the Mail link does not open. So trying this Express one.
Norma Ann Sykes: The sad decline of Britain’s Marilyn Monroe
SHE FOUND fame on hit 1950s comedy show Before Your Very Eyes and her breasts were insured for £100,000 but blonde bombshell Sabrina died a recluse.
Remember the actress Kay Kendall Married to Rex Harrison died in ‘59 of Leukemia.
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I loved Diana, one of my favourite characters she played was Mrs Wickens. She played some really good parts and she was a very witty clever lady. I was very sad when she died.