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 Sons, with Dawson, Mark and Gary In her final years, Diana spent a lot of time working for various religious and charity groups. In 1972, she joined a campaign aimed at allowing prisoners to have sexual intercourse with their wives, in jail. In 1974, she contracted meningitis but miraculously survived. 8 years later she was diagnosed as having cancer from which she died in 1984. Diana Dors appears on the cover of the Smiths' 1995 compilation album, Singles. Featured on the cover of The Beatles' album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (1967) Her third and last husband, Alan Lake, committed suicide five months after her death. 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. Measurements: 36 1/2D-24-35 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine) At age twenty she was the youngest registered owner of a Rolls Royce in the country.