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| Birth Name(s) : Diana Mary Fluck |
Date of Birth: October 23, 1931 |
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Married
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Partner:
Alan Lake |
| Profession:
Actor |
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Full Diana Dors Biography
Diana Dors was promoted as "The English Marilyn Monroe". She had the blonde hair and the curves but in fact she began her career long before Marilyn and Diana could act better as well. The daughter of a Railway worker, she trained at The Royal Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts (RAMDA) and appeared on stage while still quite a young girl. She appeared in her first film at the age of 15, mainly in "sexy-girl in background" roles.
She graduated to more important dramatic roles and continued to play quite weighty roles such as the ex-wive of Peter Sellers in There's a Girl in My Soup (1970) and a series of still sexy, older ladies. |
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Additional Diana Dors Biography
She was born Diana Mary Fluck in Swindon, England. She was considered the English equivalent of the blonde bombshells of Hollywood. She also had significant acting ability, which was destined never to be fully utilised (most of her later work is made up of sex-themed comedies that featured scenes near to soft-core pornography). Her success was such that, aged 20, she was the youngest registered owner of a Rolls Royce in the UK.
According to film buffs, her best work as an actress may have been when she played a murderess in the 1956 film Yield to the Night. She was also willing to play repulsive characters in such films as The Amazing Mr. Blunden and Timon of Athens.
Dors never had quite the same following in the U.S., but recently has made a comeback due to her films having been shown on classic movie channels such as Turner Classic Movies. She also worked under the name of Diana d'Ors.
During the summer of 1961, she filmed an episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Show (based on Robert Bloch's story "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", which co-starred Brandon De Wilde) which was so grisly that it was barred from airing and not released for many decades (see ).
Diana Dors appeared in many Rank Organisation Films. It appears that from a certain period, her appearance changed markedly similarly if not identical to Marilyn Monroe, as her career progressed. Often she has been acting in roles of characters often having unrequited love, perhaps an unfortunate parallel to her private life.Playing Dora in Diamond City (1949). Finding Stafford Parker's (David Farrar) true feelings for her is not love as she had hoped.
In a 1977 episode of the British TV show Parkinson with the actor Kenneth Williams and the anthropologist Desmond Morris (whom Dors said she had dated when they were teenagers in Swindon), Dors commented on what seemed to be the common tragic deaths of young blonde sex symbols, such as Jean Harlow and Jayne Mansfield. Dors said she would base herself on Mae West in living a long life. Unfortunately, however, she died seven years later on 4 May 1984 from a recurrence of ovarian cancer, first diagnosed two years earlier. She was 52 years old.
"They asked me to change my name. I suppose they were afraid that if my real name, Diana Fluck, was in lights, and one of the lights blew..."
According to Dors` autobiography, she was once asked and readily agreed to open a fete in her home town of Swindon, England. Prior to the festivities, Dors lunched with the local Vicar, during which she informed him that her real name was Diana Fluck. The Vicar became somewhat worried about his planned speech. After lunch, they arrived at the fete at the appointed time. The Vicar, totally unnerved about mispronouncing "Fluck", introduced Diana with these immortal words:
"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."
Diana also sang "The Hokey Pokey Polka" on the 1954 soundtrack for the film "As Long As They're Happy."
Diana Dors only recorded one complete album, Swinging Dors, for the Columbia Records/Pye label, in 1960. The Lp was originally released on red vinyl. The orchestra was conducted by Wally Stott, who later underwent a sex change and became a woman. Swinging Dors was, obviously, a swing album, and Diana Dors demonstrated a likeable, unaffected singing voice.
In 1982, she recorded a single for the Nomis label, "Where Did They Go/It's You Again" (A duet with son Gary Dors).
Dors is included on The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover art as the blonde in the front row on the right in the gold dress and white gloves. She's also featured on the cover of The Smiths 1995 compilation album, Singles.
Dors was a close friend of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain. In fact, Ellis has a cameo in Lady Godiva Rides Again, four years before she was executed by Albert Pierrepoint.
Before she died, Dors apparently hid away what she claimed to be over two million pounds in banks across Europe. Eighteen months before her death, she gave her son Mark Dawson a sheet of paper, which she told him was a code that would reveal the whereabouts of the money.
Her widower, Alan Lake, supposedly had the key that would crack the code. But Lake committed suicide only five months after Dors died, leaving Dawson an apparently unsolvable code. Dawson, however, was determined to discover his late mother's fortune. He sought out computer forensic specialists Inforenz, who recognized the encryption as the Vigenère cipher. Inforenz then used their own cryptography software to suggest a ten-letter decryption key, DMARYFLUCK (short for Diana Mary Fluck, Dors' real name).
Although the company was then able to decode the entire message and link it to a bank statement found in some of Lake's papers, the location of the money is still unknown. Some speculate whether there may have been a second sheet, whose information might have led to the discovery of the money. Channel 4 did a television programme about the mystery and created a website where users can read more and help solve the mystery. |
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| I said to this priest: 'Am I expected to believe that if I went out and had an affair that God was really going to be upset? Okay, thou shalt not kill... steal... but thou shalt not commit adultery? If no one is any the wiser, what the hell difference does it make?' He was lovely. He told me the Commandments were laid down for a lot of guys living in the desert. |
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