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And so, a generally grotty weekend - the storms yesterday were apocalyptic! - is over. It's time to welcome the world of work with open arms again. As if!
To cheer ourselves up on this Tacky Music Monday, let us celebrate the talents of yesterday's birthday girl and "national treasure", the sadly missed Diana Dors, shall we?
Hooray, indeed!
Diana Dors (born Diana Mary Fluck, 23rd October 1931 – 4th May 1984)
"Blonde bombshell" really is an endangered species, isn't it?
ReplyDeleteYou'd be slapped on the wrist by the "woke brigade" for even using the term these days... Jx
DeleteNot as tacky as your usual tacky music Mondays. Dated but still classy and well done. Hooray.
ReplyDeleteIt's quite remarkable to hear "classy" and "Diana Dors" in the same sentence... Jx
DeleteBless 'er! Britain's answer to Marilyn.
ReplyDeleteThe weather is still very grotty here. The mud has begun as it means to go on.
Sx
As Savvy said, more like "Britain's answer to Jayne Mansfield". Jx
DeletePS It's been raining on and off all day here, too.
She had an amazing career. And she was so talented. She comes up every so often as I'm doing my movie poster posts and her story is absolutely bio worthy. She remains vintage perfection.
ReplyDeleteIt's a story beyond fiction! There was a biopic made for telly (we never saw it) that was poorly received - she deserves a proper movie tribute, tbh. Jx
DeleteSweetMarySunshine! I thought that said "Fuck, Fuck, Fuck" I can't possibly be still hungover! Anyway, I also thought that was Jane Mansfield, so maybe I still am. My daughter shares her birthday with Miss Dors, so perhaps a celebratory sip would be appropriate later, of course. xoxo
ReplyDeletePoor Diana was blessed with a terrible name - it's no wonder she changed it as soon as she could.
DeleteI'll pop over to yours in a mo to see just how debauched that party was... Jx
Very talented lady. She was not a carbon copy of Marilyn, it was a coincidence they looked so similar. I love Marilyn, I don't know if they ever met. Both very smart women.
DeleteThere used to be a shop in King's heath, Birmingham that sold these terrible Marilyn Monroe lamps that looked more like Pat Butcher, it's a testament to what an icon she was you could even tell they were meant to be her. Loads of actresses looked vaguely like that in the fifties. Only a few have lasted
The last of that "type" still standing is probably Mamie Van Doren... Jx
DeleteShe was fab in every way.
ReplyDeleteI love the persona she created for herself in her latter years.
She embodied the Sondheim lyric:
DeleteFirst you're another sloe-eyed vamp
Then someone's mother, then you're camp!
Jx