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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.

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:

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

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.

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 :
ISBN 13 : 9781916668881
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (688 download)

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Download or read book Passport to Fame written by Huw Prall and published by . This book was released on 2024-05-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Idols of the Odeons

Author : Andrew Roberts
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526147025
Total Pages : 436 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 436 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.

One Lucky Bastard

Author : Roger Moore
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493015583
Total Pages : 293 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 293 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.

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.

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.

Divine Decadence

Author : Linda Mizejewski
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400863007
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Divine Decadence written by Linda Mizejewski and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As femme fatale, cabaret siren, and icon of Camp, the Christopher Isherwood character Sally Bowles has become this century's darling of "divine decadence"--a measure of how much we are attracted by the fiction of the "shocking" British/American vamp in Weimar Berlin. Originally a character in a short story by Isherwood, published in 1939, "Sally" has appeared over the years in John Van Druten's stage play I Am a Camera, Henry Cornelius's film of the same name, and Joe Masteroff's stage musical and Bob Fosse's Academy Award-winning musical film, both entitled Cabaret. Linda Mizejewski shows how each successive repetition of the tale of the showgirl and the male writer/scholar has linked the young man's fascination with Sally more closely to the fascination of fascism. In every version, political difference is read as sexual difference, fascism is disavowed as secretly female or homosexual, and the hero eventually renounces both Sally and the corruption of the coming regime. Mizejewski argues, however, that the historical and political aspects of this story are too specific--and too frightening--to explain in purely psychoanalytic terms. Instead, Divine Decadence examines how each text engages particular cultural issues and anxieties of its era, from postwar "Momism" to the Vietnam War. Sally Bowles as the symbol of "wild Weimar" or Nazi eroticism represents "history" from within the grid of many other controversial discourses, including changing theories of fascism, the story of Camp, vicissitudes of male homosexual representations and discourses, and the relationships of these issues to images of female sexuality. To Mizejewski, the Sally Bowles adaptations end up duplicating the fascist politics they strain to condemn, reproducing the homophobia, misogyny, fascination for spectacle, and emphasis of sexual difference that characterized German fascism. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Star Studies

Author : Martin Shingler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838718354
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Star Studies written by Martin Shingler and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Shingler presents the mother volume for Palgrave's Film Stars series in three easily-navigable chapters in which he provides a summative and instructive account of star studies for today's film student. Via a critical evaluation of the work of leading film scholars, he provides a convincing argument for howthis important area of film studies has evolved. Building on this, he offerssome new directions for star scholarship, and ends by offering the film student a useful set of themes and issues for his or her own investigation. 'Star Studies' is the perfect companion for the student who wishes to foster further research on stardom across a wide range of contexts, from national cinemas, to mainstream and marginal cinemas, to different historical periods and beyond.

Cult Movie Stars

Author : Danny Peary
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Cult Movie Stars written by Danny Peary and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Female Stars of British Cinema

Author : Williams Melanie Williams
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474405665
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Female Stars of British Cinema written by Williams Melanie Williams and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-07 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film stars are often seen as a Hollywood creation but this book explores how British cinema developed its own culture of stardom, and how its female stars have been prized by audiences worldwide. Female Stars of British Cinema uses case studies of seven female stars whose careers span the 1940s to the present day - Jean Kent, Diana Dors, Rita Tushingham, Glenda Jackson, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Lloyd, and Judi Dench - to explore how British star femininities have developed over time, and how the image of the British female star has responded to broader social and cultural changes. These 'women in question' offer a way into the complexities of British cinema's culture of stardom which has sometimes espoused glamour and sometimes rejected it, and is entangled with issues of regional, national and ethnic identity, as well as class, sexuality and age. Exploring and investigating the variety of British star femininities over the last seventy-five years, this book also interrogates the omissions and absences from that same cinematic firmament.

Flesh and Fantasy

Author : Penny Stallings
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 9780060963439
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (634 download)

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Download or read book Flesh and Fantasy written by Penny Stallings and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1989 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stylish panorma of the Great American Dream Machine reveals the wonderful unreality that made Hollywood the capital of pop culture and features quizzes, games, and gossip about stars

Bombshells

Author : Shar Daws
Publisher : History Press
ISBN 13 : 9780750992183
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (921 download)

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Download or read book Bombshells written by Shar Daws and published by History Press. This book was released on 2020-03-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Jean Harlow and Marilyn Monroe to Ruth Ellis: the stories of the strong, spirited and controversial women who created the enduring image of the Blonde Bombshell