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4 unusual facts about Diana Dors


Parkgate and Rawmarsh railway station

The station and the adjoining steel works, together with other locations in the Rotherham area, were featured in the 1958 film Tread Softly Stranger starring Diana Dors.

The Big Bankroll

The Big Bankroll is a 1961 American crime film directed by Joseph M. Newman and starring David Janssen, Dianne Foster, Diana Dors and Jack Carson.

The Love Specialist

Diana Dixon, a Texan girl (played by Dors), wins a quiz show jackpot, and uses her winnings (a prize in cash and a brand new Cadillac car) for a trip to Italy.

The Unholy Wife

The film is about a femme fatale named Phyllis (Diana Dors) who tells her sordid story from her prison cell in flashback.


Billy Smart, Jr.

Smart was a familiar figure in the gossip columns of the 1950s and 1960s as a well-known performer and eligible bachelor: his publicised liaisons included celebrities such as Jayne Mansfield, Diana Dors, and Shirley Bassey.

Caxton Hall

It was also used as a central London register office until 1979, many famous people being married there including Donald Campbell (two marriages), Harrison Marks, Billy Butlin, Elizabeth Taylor, Diana Dors, Peter Sellers, Roger Moore, Orson Welles, Joan Collins, Yehudi Menuhin, Adam Faith, Robin Nedwell, Barry Gibb, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.

Cornel Lucas

Cornel Lucas photographed many movies stars in the late forties and fifties including Marlene Dietrich, David Niven, Gregory Peck, Joan Collins, Brigitte Bardot, Diana Dors (in a gondola in Venice).

Keep It Up Downstairs

Keep It Up Downstairs is a 1976 British sex comedy film directed by Robert Young and starring Diana Dors, Jack Wild and William Rushton.

Olive Sloane

The next few years brought roles for Sloane in other well-known films, such as the 1953 Ealing Studios satire Meet Mr. Lucifer with Stanley Holloway and 1954 prison drama The Weak and the Wicked, in which she played Nellie Baden, an elderly compulsive shoplifter sharing the cells with, amongst others, Glynis Johns and Diana Dors.

Passport to Shame

Passport to Shame aka Room 43, is a 1958 British drama film directed by Alvin Rakoff, written by Patrick Alexander and starring Diana Dors and Herbert Lom.

Stafford Somerfield

He prioritised shocking stories, and printed explicit details of Diana Dors and Christine Keeler's lives.


see also

Joe Machine

Other images are Ute Lemper, and Diana Dors with an axe and also with a sub-machine gun.