Diana Dors

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MakeMeFamousFilms and producer Michael de Angelos has announced plans to make a bio-pic of the legendary British film actress, Diana Dors.

 Dors was the blonde bombshell who was Britain's answer to Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield. Curvacious, intelligent and a popular actress, Dors was loved by the British public who described her alternatively as a "national disgrace" or a "national treasure".

Born Diana Mary Fluck in Swindon in 1931, Dors first came to prominence  in her teenage years when as a  beauty pagent winner, she was asked to open the local fete where she would be introduced by the town's Vicar.  Dors recounted in her autobiograhy, how she discussed over luncheon the wording of how the Vicar would introduce her, and his alarm at learning her name was Fluck and the possibility of him fumbling his words.

The flustered Vicar eventually introduced Dors with these inmmortal words : "Ladies and gentlemen, it is with great pleasure that I introduce to you our star guest. We all love her, especially as she is our local girl. Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome the very lovely Miss Diana Clunt."

Diana Fluck eventually became Diana Dors. According to the star : "producers 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..."

Appearing in over 70 films, Dors became a household name in England but after several failed attempts was never able to crack the Hollywood film circuit . She appeared on the cover of the legendary Beatles album Seargent Pepper's Lonely Hears Club Band, was once popularly voted in a poll in The Sun newspaper as the women readers would prefer to be Prime Minisiter than Margaret Thatcher, and in her 50's appeared in pop videos along with Adam Ant.

Her popularity transcended all Britain's class concious society-a friend of the notorious gangsters the Kray Twins, she was equally at home and popular with the aristocracy. One story relates of the day Dors visited a member of the House of Lords and when ushered into the chamber-the aging Lords rose en masse and clapped the actress to cries of "order order" from the Speaker who eventually gave up and joined in the clapping.

But Diana's private life was the opposite to her happy public image-she married 3 times with each marriage ending acrimonously and claims of infidelity and rumours of Dor's active sex life abounded. Her last husband, actor Alan Lake committed suicide when Dian Dors died of cancer in 1984.

Producer de Angelos says his most difficult task is to find the right actress to potray Dors on film with the right combination of overt sexuality, humour and the warm personality that Diana Dors was known for.