Diana Dors, Actress, - Biography
Actress,
Born October 23, 1931, Swindon, Wiltshire, England, UK
Died May 4, 1984, Windsor, Berkshire, England, UK
Birth name Diana Mary Fluck
She was born Diana
Mary Fluck in Swindon, England. She was considered the British equivalent of the
blonde bombshells of Hollywood, but many consider 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).
According to film buffs, her best work as an actress may have been when she played
a murderer in the 1956 film Yield to the Night.
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 & not released for many decades
In an 1977 episode of the British TV show Parkinson with the actor Kenneth Williams & the anthropologist Desmond Morris (with whom Dors said she had dated when they were teenagers in Swindon). Dors commented on what seemed to be the common young tragic deaths of blond sex symbols such as Marilyn Monroe & Jayne Mansfield. Dors said she would base herself on Mae West in living a long life. She died 7 years later on 4th May 1984 from a recurrence of ovarian cancer, first diagnosed two years earlier. She was 52.
Dors left a mark on popular culture; the
"50's blonde bombshell look" popularized by Dors, Jayne Mansfield &
Marilyn Monroe. She was married three times:
· Dennis Hamilton (3 July
1951-3 January 1959)
· Richard Dawson, (a future Family Feud host &
Hogan's Heroes star), (12 April 1959-1966); two sons Mark Dawson & Gary Dawson
· The actor Alan Lake (23 November 1968-10 October 1984); one son Jason
Lake
"They asked me to change my name. I suppose they were afraid that
if my real name, Diana Fluck, was in lights, & one of the lights blew..."
According
to Dors autobiography, she was once asked & 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
& 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 & Gentlemen, please welcome the
very lovely Miss Diana Clunt."
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 & white gloves. She also features on the cover of
The Smiths 1995 compilation album, Singles.
Dors appeared in the 1981 Adam
& the Ants music video "Prince Charming" as the "fairy godmother"
opposite Adam Ant, who played a male Cinderella figure.
At age twenty she was
the youngest registered owner of a Rolls Royce in the country.
Before she died,
Dors apparently hid away what she claimed to be over two million dollars in banks
across Europe. 18 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 & 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 may have led to the discovery
of the money. Channel 4 did a television programme about the mystery & created
a website where users can read more & help solve the mystery.
·
Dancing with Crime (1947) · The Shop at Sly Corner (1947) · Penny
& the Pownall Case (1948) · My Sister & I (1948) · Here
Come the Huggetts (1948)
· The Calendar (1948) · Holiday Camp
(1948) · Oliver Twist (1948) · Good Time Girl (1948) · Vote
for Huggett (1949) · It's Not Cricket (1949) · A Boy, a Girl &
a Bike (1949) · Diamond City (1949) · Dance Hall (1950) ·
Worm's Eye View (1951) · Lady Godiva Rides Again (1951) · My Wife's
Lodger (1952)
· Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary? (1952) ·
The Last Page (1952) · The Weak & the Wicked (1953) · It's a
Grand Life (1953) · The Great Game (1953) · The Saint's Return (1953)
Value for Money (1955) · Miss Tulip Stays the Night (1955) · An
Alligator Named Daisy (1955) · A Kid for Two Farthings (1955) ·
As Long as They're Happy (1955) · Yield to the Night (1956) · The
Love Specialist (1956) · The Unholy Wife (1957) The Long Haul (1957) ·
Tread Softly Stranger (1958) · Passport to Shame (1958) I Married a Woman
(1958) · Scent of Mystery (1960) · On the Double (1961) ·
King of the Roaring 20's - The Story of Arnold Rothstein (1961) · Mrs.
Gibbons' Boys (1962) · West 11 (1963) · The Counterfeit Constable
(1964) · The Sandwich Man (1966)
· Baby Love (1968) ·
Berserk! (1968) · Danger Route (1968) · Hammerhead (1968) ·
There's a Girl in My Soup (1970) · Deep End (1971) · Hannie Caulder
(1971) · Nothing But the Night (1972) · Every Afternoon (1972) ·
The Amazing Mr. Blunden (1972) · The Pied Piper (1972) · All Our
Saturdays (1973) · Steptoe & Son Ride Again (1973) · From Beyond
the Grave (1973) · Craze (1973) · Theatre of Blood (1973) ·
Three for All (1974) · The Amorous Milkman (1974)
· Bedtime
with Rosie (1975) · A Man with a Maid (1975) · Adventures of a Taxi
Driver (1976) · Keep It Up Downstairs (1976) · Adventures of a Private
Eye (1977) · Confessions from the David Galaxy Affair (1979) Steaming (1985)
Pictures of Diana Dors not spelt Diane Dors Dianna Dors Diana Doors, or Diane Doors,
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