Diana Dors (October 23, 1931 – May 4, 1984) was a British actress.

She was born in Swindon, England as Diana Fluck. 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. When she died in 1984, she left a mark as so did all the other classic stars. Now today stars such as Madonna and pop princess Christina Aguilera use the style of the "50's blonde bombshell look" Which means they did and still have a tremendous impact on us.

She was married three times:

• Dennis Hamilton (3 July 1951-3 January 1959)
• Richard Dawson, (a future Family Feud host and Hogan's Heroes star), (12 April 1959-1966); two sons Mark and Gary
• The actor Alan Lake (23 November 1968-4 May 1984); one son Jason

She died in 1984 at age 52, from a recurrence of ovarian cancer, first diagnosed a few years earlier.

Quote

"They asked me to change my name. I suppose they were afraid that if my real name, Diana Fluck, was in lights and one of the lights blew..."

Trivia

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 and white gloves. She features on the cover of The Smiths 1995 compilation album, Singles, also.

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.

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 and 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 program about the mystery and created a website where users can read more and help solve the mystery.

Filmography

• Dancing with Crime (1947)
• The Shop at Sly Corner (1947)
• Penny and the Pownall Case (1948)
• My Sister and 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 and 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 and 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)
• Steptoe and 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)

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