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The Real Diana Dors

Author : Anna Cale
Publisher : White Owl
ISBN 13 : 1526782162
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book The Real Diana Dors written by Anna Cale and published by White Owl. This book was released on 2021-08-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of the tumultuous and too-short life of the film star known as “the English Marilyn Monroe.” The story of Diana Dors is one of fame, glamour, and intrigue. From the moment she came into the world, her life was full of drama. She began her acting career in the shadow of the Second World War, entering the film world as a vulnerable young teenager and negotiating the difficult British studio system of the 1940s and ’50s. Yet she battled against the odds to become one of the most iconic British actors of the twentieth century. This book follows her remarkable story, from childhood in suburban Swindon to acting success as a teenager and finding fame as the “the English Marilyn Monroe.” Many remember her as an outspoken and sometimes controversial figure, grabbing headlines for her personal life as often as for her film roles. For Diana, image seemed to be everything, but there was more to her than the blonde-bombshell reputation suggested. A talented actor, she worked on numerous film and television projects, building a career that spanned decades. Set against the backdrop of the changing social landscape of twentieth century Britain, this book charts the ups and downs of her professional adventures and her tumultuous private life, to build a fascinating picture of a unique screen icon.

Diana Dors

Author : David Bret
Publisher : Aurum
ISBN 13 : 1781313415
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Diana Dors written by David Bret and published by Aurum. This book was released on 2010-10-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dubbed the British Marilyn Monroe' or the British Bridget Bardot', Diana Dors finally proclaimed I'd rather be known as the hurricane in mink'. The actress was best known for her lavish lifestyle; she was a blonde bombshell with a penchant for flashy cars, opulent mansions, glitzy garb and jet-setting living. Diana Dors' rise to fame started with being a GI favourite during the war. However, she was keen to ditch her goody-goody image and announced that she wanted to be like Errol Flynn. It worked she became a huge star, working with the likes of Joan Crawford and famously starred in Yield to the Night, the movie that contributed to the abolition of the death penalty. But despite the glamour, her affairs, sex parties and OTT lifestyle, including an illicit affair with Rod Steiger left her branded as a scarlet woman, unwanted by the Studios. Undeterred, the indomitable Dors simply worked tirelessly to establish for herself a successful career in cabaret. Her life was didn't always smell of roses: her first husband cheated on her, stole from her, beat her and finally died of syphilis. Another lover who she considered faithful two-timed her with Rock Hudson. She finally found love with husband number three, who killed himself 5 months after her death. This is the amazing story of an actress who loved life and lived it to the full, told with compassion and vigour.

Come by Sunday

Author : Damon Wise
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780283063053
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Come by Sunday written by Damon Wise and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Passport to Fame

Author : Huw Prall
Publisher : Book Guild Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1835741185
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Passport to Fame written by Huw Prall and published by Book Guild Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-28 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Britain's answer to Marilyn Monroe". This tag was to hang around Diana Dors' neck during the 1950s. As Diana would often point out she had been working professionally a lot longer than Monroe. Her first appearance was in 1946 in The Shop at Sly Corner, while still a student at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Diana, like Marilyn, was blonde, curvy and sexy, but that's where the comparison ended. Her range as an actress encompassed everything from comedy to Greek tragedy. She was a real person – a quality that endeared her to the public, but above all, she was a survivor. Diana was also a talented writer compiling two autobiographies of herself, as well as her three A - Z books. Diana had a prolific career covering every facet of the entertainment industry - theatre, cabaret, film and TV. Passport to Fame is a comprehensive study of Diana's work across her 40 years of filmmaking. The book is also an invaluable source of reference to the film-buff interested in the changing face of the film industry.

Connecting Dors

Author : Niema Ash
Publisher : Writersworld Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780955030123
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Connecting Dors written by Niema Ash and published by Writersworld Limited. This book was released on 2011 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diana Dors is a legend.Not only has she become embedded in the UK psyche but is very much alive in the UK imagination. This title explores the consequences of stardom not only on herself but on her son. The book explores her life and career.

Fallen Stars

Author : Julian Upton
Publisher : Headpress
ISBN 13 : 9781900486385
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (863 download)

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Download or read book Fallen Stars written by Julian Upton and published by Headpress. This book was released on 2004 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fallen Stars probes the underside of fame to reveal a host of glittering careers stunted by ill-health, alcoholism, drug addiction and egomania. Twenty-one tales of stardom turned sour, these are the tragic final years of some of the world's best-loved actors and comedians, a latter-day Hollywood Babylon that includes Benny Hill, Diana Dors, Peter Sellers, Carry On legends and many others.

Diana Dors

Author : Joan Flory
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780713720464
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Diana Dors written by Joan Flory and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

One Lucky Bastard

Author : Roger Moore
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493015583
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book One Lucky Bastard written by Roger Moore and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a career that spans over seven decades, Roger Moore has been at the very heart of Hollywood. Of course, he’s an actor and has starred in films that have made him famous the world over; but he’s also a tremendous prankster, joker and raconteur. Despite the fact that he is well known as one of the nicest guys in the business, on and off the screen he has always been up for some fun. In this fabulous collection of true stories from his stellar career, Moore lifts the lid on the movie business, from Hollywood to Pinewood. One Lucky Bastard features outrageous tales from his own life and career as well as those told to him by a host of stars and filmmakers including, Tony Curtis, Sean Connery, Michael Caine, David Niven, Frank Sinatra, Gregory Peck, John Mills, Peter Sellers, Michael Winner, Cubby Broccoli, and many more. Wonderfully entertaining and laugh-out-loud funny, these extraordinary tales from the world of the movies is vintage Moore at his very best.

Idols of the Odeons

Author : Andrew Roberts
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526147025
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Idols of the Odeons written by Andrew Roberts and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-23 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Idols of the Odeons examines British film stardom in the post-war era, a time when Hollywood movies were increasingly supplanting the Pinewood/Elstree studio system. The book encompasses the careers of sixteen actors, including Stanley Baker, Diana Dors, Norman Wisdom, Hattie Jacques, Peter Finch and Peter Sellers. Such extremely diverse careers provide the opportunity to explore overlooked films, in addition to examining how the term ‘star’ could apply to a stalwart leading man, a Variety comic, a self-created ‘Vamp’ and a character actor. Above all, this is a book that celebrates, with idiosyncratic humour and warmth, how these actors accomplished much of their best work during the transitional period between the Rank/ABPC roster of stars and the US domination of the British film industry.

For adults only

Author : Diana Dors
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book For adults only written by Diana Dors and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bombshells

Author : Shar Daws
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750994584
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Bombshells written by Shar Daws and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2020-03-27 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean Harlow, the Godmother of Blondes, lit the torch for the blonde bombshell, creating an image and persona that would be passed on for generations to come. Jean's life was cut tragically short at the age of 26, but the flame reignited in the 1950s with the most notorious blondes of all time: Ruth Ellis, Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and Diana Dors. Each left a legacy that has ensured the fire will never be completely extinguished, affecting not only individual lives but society across a world stage. From Marilyn's stardom and Diana's unwavering integrity, to Ruth's tragic status as the last woman hanged in Britain, all of these women experienced success and tragedy, love and heartbreak, and attention both positive and negative. Bombshells examines these five exceptional women in the context of the 1950s, the expectations and constrictions society had at the time and how they pushed through barriers and paved the way for the real sexual revolution.

The Tragic Secret Life of Jayne Mansfield

Author : Raymond Strait
Publisher : Crossroad Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tragic Secret Life of Jayne Mansfield written by Raymond Strait and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2021-07-04 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having spent ten years as Jayne Mansfield's press secretary, Raymond Strait knows intimately both the public image and the private person that were Jayne Mansfield. Sitting through hundreds of hours of interviews and private conversations -- not only with Jayne but also with her husbands, her lovers, and her children -- gave Ray the opportunity to present a revealing portrait of the woman. He records her drive for fame and success and her overpowering need to be loved and to love, needs that led her into numerous affairs with rich and powerful men -- including President John F Kennedy -- and with younger men from all walks of life. And he discusses frankly Jayne's ultimately successful plan to become pregnant by Nelson Sardelli because she wanted to have an Italian child. Know to millions as the consummate sex symbol who rivaled Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield received more press coverage than anyone else in Hollywood. The headlines were often sensational, causing society matrons and Baptist ministers to shake their heads and point their fingers. But under those sensational headlines there was a woman of greater complexity that any reporter could hope to understand. Strait goes below the surface to examine Jayne's emotions and motivations, revealing the truth about her many lovers, her three unsuccessful marriages, her love affair with Mickey Hargitay that lasted to the end and her battle against and her surrender to alcohol and drugs.

My West Side Story

Author : George Chakiris
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493055488
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book My West Side Story written by George Chakiris and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natalie Wood and “lovely” Richard Beymer, to the mercurial Jerome Robbins and “passionate” Rita Moreno, with whom Chakiris remains friends. “I know exactly where my gratitude belongs,” Chakiris writes, “and I still marvel at how, unbeknownst to me at the time, the joyful path of my life was paved one night in 1949 when Jerome Robbins sat Leonard Bernstein and Arthur Laurents down in his apartment and announced, ‘I have an idea.’"

The Historical Film

Author : Marcia Landy
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813528564
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (285 download)

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Download or read book The Historical Film written by Marcia Landy and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is history? How do we represent it? How do our notions of history change over time? The essays in The Historical Film: History and Memory in Media probe the roles that cinema and television play in altering and complicating our understanding of historical events. The book brings together representative examples of how both media critics and historians write about history as it is created and disseminated through film and television. The essays explore what is at stake culturally and politically in media history and how this form of history-making is different from traditional historiography. The volume is divided into four parts--Regarding History; History as Trauma; History, Fiction, and Postcolonial Memory; and History and Television--that progressively deepen our understanding of just how complex the issues are. Essays by top scholars analyze many different kinds of film: historical film, documentary, costume drama, and heritage films. The section on television is equally broad, examining phenomena as diverse as news broadcasts and Ken Burns's documentary The Civil War. Contributors are Mbye Cham, George F. Custen, Mary Ann Doane, Richard Dienst, Taylor Downing, Gary Edgerton, Naomi Greene, Miriam Bratu Hansen, Sue Harper, Sumiko Higashi, Anton Kaes, Marcia Landy, Shawn Rosenheim, Robert A. Rosenstone, Pierre Sorlin, Maria Wyke, and Ismail Xavier.

From the Closet to the Screen

Author : Jill Gardiner
Publisher : Pandora Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book From the Closet to the Screen written by Jill Gardiner and published by Pandora Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1960s the Gateways Club was known as 'the' lesbian club in London. In her portrait of the club, Gardiner also gives us a social history of lesbian lives, loves and mores, from a cloistered secret in the 1950s and 1960s, to a battleground between feminists and traditionalists in the 1970s.

Diana Dors

Author : Martin Shingler
Publisher : International Film Stars
ISBN 13 : 9781474474009
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Diana Dors written by Martin Shingler and published by International Film Stars. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Diana Dors' film career, acting method, star image and enduring celebrity

How Can You Bear to be Human?

Author : Nicolas Bentley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book How Can You Bear to be Human? written by Nicolas Bentley and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: