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-wife of Peter Sellers in There's a Girl in My Soup and a series of still sexy, older ladies.



Value for Money (1955): £ 5,000

Son, with Lake, Jason In her final years, Diana spent a lot of time working for various religious and charity groups. In 1974, she contracted meningitis but miraculously survived. 8 years later she was diagnosed as having cancer from which she died in 1984. Featured on the cover of The Beatles' album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (1967) A tribute to Diana Dors, "Good Day", was written by Ray Davies after her death and is included on The Kinks' Word Of Mouth CD. At age twenty she was the youngest registered owner of a Rolls Royce in the country.