BRITISH SEX BOMB & HOLLYWOOD STAR - WHAT WENT WRONG?

[@evelyntownley6651]

She was our British marlin Monroe. Loved Diana Dores. Sadly left us to soon ..they don't make them like they used to Neil.

[@franmellor9843]

TY Neil for giving us a break from the DIABOLICAL duo

[@loopylyn6548]

This is really weird...... I watched an hour long documentary yesterday on KZbin called Andy's archives... all about Diana Dors... Lionel Jeffries revealed that when Alan Lake shot himself a few months after her death, he was villifield for leaving a young son alone... But the real reason was not because he was being selfish, but because he was suffering from brain cancer and Diana was then only person that knew (she told no one) and he felt unable to cope without her....It was a very interesting program, she never got the proper recognition she deserved. She was a very underestimated character actress....

[@amandamorton-king2112]

Really enjoyed this trip down Memory Lane. Had no idea Diana Dors was involved with Rod Steiger - some great little insights here.

[@11craftycats]

These are true celebrities, not the likes of reality TV "stars"

[@christinemalloy-brooks7540]

Hi Neil👋👋thank you for sharing the history and glamor. Those were very different types of stars.

[@kasista47]

I love your program and watch it daily. I am so sick of the media headlines that seem now anti-royal, the royal tour, and the Prince Philip Memorial being featured this week alone. It is especially disgusting, as it is the queen’s unique jubilee, and she deserves some peace in this her special year. It is also a bit worrying about the power the press wields as chatting with my 17-year-old granddaughter, her views appear to be based entirely on those sensational headlines. Yours now is the only program where I hope to get an unbiased view of current events, so thank you very much.

[@maryoleary2037]

I love it when you reminisce, Neil. There really is a book inside you.

[@savannahdockins7022]

His memories are the greatest, aren't they?

[@carolb6141]

He has written a great book titled Live from the London Palladium: The World's Most Famous Theatre in the Words of the Stars Who Have Played There, and it is available on Amazon. If you can't afford it, see if your library has a copy.

[@paulainsc8212]

I agree. What a great book

[@paulainsc8212]

@@carolb6141 He would love your reply!

[@pimpozza]

Love these fascinating snippets you bring us, Neil! 👍💕 You have met so many interesting people.. Diana Doors was a bubble of fun..

[@carolb6141]

Thank you, Neil, for sharing those memories of two wonderful stars. Such a sad ending for the star-crossed lovers. And what a brave young man her son is to have lost both parents at such a tender age. Love your stories!

[@rebeccaglover4861]

What a fantastic story, Neil!

[@dianabrown7129]

Always loved Diana Dors and Steiger such a great actor. Love to hear your stories. Thanks again. ❤️🇺🇸

[@joanbraten71]

Rod Stieger is embedded in my memory when He as Komarovsky stole the show over Lara & Zhivago.

[@sabinekoch3448]

Oh yes! I remember that too!

[@min-ru8236]

Another lovely story,thanks Neil. Very interesting.👋👋🇦🇺

[@Ronin4614]

Good day, Neil. Your depth of knowledge and connections are remarkable, on a par with the late Robert Osborne. I thank you for passing along what you have learned to us.

[@joanneyee9168]

Seriously Neil who haven't you met. Great story about Rod Steiger and Diana Dors . I didn't realise Diana was so beautiful, I haven't seen a lot of pictures of her. Morning from Brisbane Australia 🇦🇺😃☀️🌡️🐨🦘

[@angelkatlife7772]

Love your memories Neil!!!

[@katekelly1]

Neil: "Thank you, so much, for the memory!"

[@waterloosunset4559]

Not to forget Alan Lake never got over Diana and killed himself leaving little Jason orphaned. So sad. Such a brave young man.

[@flightyone9004]

I didn’t know that of Alan Lake I knew he had died but not at his own hand how sad

[@debramoss2267]

@@flightyone9004 me neither, poor little soul, that is a hefty weight to put on a little one, but I think people get to the point where they think everyone is better off without them, or don't want to die but they just don't want to live with the pain anymore. This world is crueller than it needs to be for everyone, but gentle souls get ragged around and buffeted, don't they.

[@waterloosunset4559]

Yes! That young man never sought attention, nor blamed his father and never seemed to feel sorry for himself even though he had every right too. I do hope he has found some happiness

[@tanyachristensen5330]

Hi Neil👋🌷 I don't know these stars. She is a beautiful woman.Lovely to listen. Thank you! Much love from Canada 🇨🇦😊🌷

[@janetkelly223]

thank you Neil, as usual a very informative piece of news. xxx

[@alicesings1971]

I love your stories Neal ! Thanks for sharing 💝✌️🥂 xx

[@Minaish11]

Love your stories about actors of yesteryears Neil, and your insights into their lives. ❤️From Bombay 🇮🇳

[@roseconklin5392]

Neil thank you so much for this romantic story!

[@geraldinekearney542]

Hi Neil, thank you so very much for sharing this wonderful story ❤️❤️❤️

[@msbeaverhausen7226]

I love hearing your stories about real movie stars!!!

[@lizzynunez4906]

Thank you for sharing the story, I had no idea💔

[@annettestewart6512]

Thanks for the memories of the blonde bombshell.

[@marilynwhittle2272]

She was a brilliant talent loved Diana ! ❤️thanks Neil I’m going to google her life story now

[@vailewalders1395]

I love Diana Dors here in the US, thanks Neil for talking about Diana Dors, I just watched Diana on The Steve Allen Show 1960 singing Hooray For Love

[@harrietcraig7817]

Wasn’t DD also married to Richard Dawson? I think you missed a great opportunity, Neil. In running into Rod you could have gotten the definition of a “woman” from at least one of Diana’s numerous husbands!

[@mreale2811]

Yes , when I was a kid in England ,Dickie Dawson as he was then known before he went to America , was was married to Diana Dors. 🇨🇦🇬🇧

[@annsearle9275]

Back in about , 1977 or 1978 my best friends dad used to work for gordon mills , and we used to spend time as children at his house in Weybridge he had lions and tigers !!! Of all things but basically when we went to stay there at weekends during the summer holidays a couple of times dianna dors came over she was such a lovely lady and still even though she was older she was absolutely gorgeous and funny and great fun for us kids we followed her around like puppies she was so nice to us pesky little girls and she happily fooled around us kids and I didn't really know who she was until she died ,

[@debramoss2267]

I always felt sad for Diana, she seemed to hit a blank at every turn and she had such potential, a real sparkling starlet. Rod Steiger always scared me, no idea why, he had that wild and barely controlled feel if you know what I mean. Lovely video, Neil, I do enjoy these glittering memories, how on Earth did we end up with 'Love Island' ? 🙄 Gorgeous tie again, I really love this colour. Tropical waters. I bet somewhere they do a Horlicks Cocktail 😁

[@carolb6141]

Rod Steiger has that "brute" maleness about him. That is what both attracted and repelled women at the same time. He was one of those men you knew could never be "tamed."

[@mreale2811]

He scared me too!

[@debramoss2267]

@@carolb6141 yes, you're right that's what it is, thank you, bang on the nail.

[@debramoss2267]

@@mreale2811 I'm so relieved to know I am not the only one!

[@Altered4n892t]

Rod Steiger was a brilliant actor! All these names brought so many memories ❤️🤜🏻🤛🏻

[@nana-x9]

Neal, I throughly enjoy your channel with the Royals, showing the different places in & about London, along with recommendations of what to see if one visits. On my bucket list. I also love videos you do with the stars of old. (I am 60 years young, share my birthday with Princess Diana, & what is old?) Thanks for all of your videos & channel. Blessings from across the pond .🙏🏼🎥🎞🎙📺🇺🇸🇬🇧❤️👑

[@bugler75]

I first saw Diana Dors in Adam Ant’s video for ´Prince Charming’ in 1981. I instantly fell in love with her. My mother explained who she was. After that I remember seeing her in films on a Saturday afternoon (days of three channels, it was a film or sport and my Granny was boss of the TV!). I was a young teenager when she died and I think it was the first time I was saddened by the passing of someone that I didn’t personally know. She was only in her fifties. So talented and beautiful.

[@debramoss2267]

I'd forgotten she was in that! Wow, a true star!

[@pamelamoreno4657]

I'm telling you Neil you need to write a book. You have met a lot of people. You are always so kind it would be a very relaxing book. I would buy it. I love mel Brooks ' book. It was very fun to read. Think about it.😊

[@pamelamoreno4657]

@Louise All About Me. Its wonderful.

[@betsyroessner9616]

I am so glad you mentione Rod Steiger. I loved his acting and, sadly, had forgotten about him. One of my favorite movies is Rod Steiger's No Way to Treat a Lady," which was to kill her. I'm going to buy a copy online if I can find one. Thanks for a fun commentary!

[@WhoDaresWins-B20]

WHAT???????????????????????????????? No Harry and Meghan????????

[@kathyolney4083]

😁🥂

[@booperpotpie9634]

FFS... I was eating a very late dinner and now my appetite has gone. Can we just stop mentioning that pair. Maybe they'll go away if we do.

[@betsyroessner9616]

I think Neal is on to bigger and better things. Like writing a book and leading a tour of London and other bright spots for tourists. I'm going to start a piggy bank!

[@TefiTheWaterGipsy]

Hi Neil, thanks for that story, I loved Diana Doors, I was really little, about three when my paternal Nan was babysitting me one afternoon, she'd told me we were going to watch a film that afternoon and we did, can't say which one, but it had the fabulous Diana Doors in it and I thought she was amazing! My Nan said she had looked like her when she was younger, she hadn't. Then I recall seeing her in other things and appearing on various shows, I remember her in a figure hugging emerald satin dress and she looked like a goddess. I was still pretty young when she died, but I remember it and was sad about it at the time. It seemed impossible that this absolutely gorgeous blonde bombshell, so vivacious, a thousand watt smile, she was like a human firework, i couldn't take my eyes off of her. It seemed impossible that she was just not her anymore. She, I'm sure, was the reason I adored a lot of platinum blondes, my favourites, purge than Diana herself were Marilyn Monroe (of course) and Debbie Harry, then later Gwen Stefani. I don't think we'll ever have stars the like of Diana Doors and Marilyn Monroe ever again, not just because they were stunning and special, but it was the age they were in. Fewer celebrities and even fewer stars. When being a celebrity didn't induce the response of "sorry, who? ". I remember when my daughter was three and we were staying with my parents, they were out and we'd got dressed to go to the gardens opposite to play on the playground, I was about to switch the telly off when Marilyn came in screen, in black and white, and my daughter, staring at the screen just sat down, right in front of the telly and stared at the screen. "Mumma, who is she? She's so beautiful." I told her who she was and said let's go to the swings "can we go after this?" I agreed, thinking she'd get bored in a little while. Nope, she didn't, we sat and watched the whole thing. It just goes to show that the likes of DD and MM really did have that captivating star quality. Here's to all the blonde bombshell stars who lit up the silver screens, and then our own, who shone so brightly, even in black and white. 🥂🌟 I bet they'd appreciate your sartorial elegance in the tie department! #kingofties PS. The bills are crazy, my brother moved into his own one bed flat around Christmas, he got his first lecky bill last week, £800 odd quid! You should become a boater Neil, far cheaper and holidays are barely any more expensive than normal living expenses. ⚓️

[@pozzee2809]

Totally can relate with you Neil

[@greatgrandmama]

I loved Diana Dors. My History teacher in the 1950s told us he lived in the same street as her in England. I forget the town now. Really liked Rod as well, especially in No Way to Treat a Lady.👋👋👋👋👋👋😘Neil

[@greatgrandmama]

@@kaytow5688 thanks for info. It's so long ago, and I'd have forgotten, except that Mr James our teacher , was my absolute favourite, very good, and that led me to study history . Neil's videos stir up some lovely memories 💕

[@annea8216]

👋🏻👋🏻Hey to Everyone! I LOVE YOUR STORIES!!! THANK YOU FOR SHARING🙏 I’ll definitely look that up👍 👋🏻👋🏻

[@idacoetzee]

Wow you have had very interesting experiences thank you for sharing them.

[@karenkershaw6324]

They were true stars.

[@karenbaird8795]

Rod Steiger? Neil who haven’t you met? Have you written a book about your life yet?? I think it would be amazing😎🙋‍♀️🌺

[@debramoss2267]

We need to keep nagging til he caved! 😂

[@jackiewheeler2090]

I think I first saw her when I was a youngster in a movie " A Kid For Two Farthings " I spent the rest of my life loving her.

[@mreale2811]

Jackie... I’m so old I remember using farthings in England in 1950s.. ( 4 farthings made 1 penny) love Neil’s channel.. .it brings back lots of memories.🇨🇦🇬🇧

[@MomtoMrOreo]

Wow interesting! 🇺🇸 thank you.

[@margsmith687]

🇦🇺 Neil , can we read your tales in a book ?

[@Aaron-df6jc]

Hey Neil!! Your looking dashing in a sports jacket and not a winter coat!! Good story today, as always ♥️❤️

[@tonimonti5195]

Neil, I learned to so much watching you!

[@marycahill546]

Love Rod Steiger -- In the Hat of the Night, the Sergeant. Thanks Neil!

[@courtneymcgregor3417]

Neil why don't you write a book love? I believe there's a few books in you and at least they'd be factual and no doubt interesting. Much love from oceanside, in the tropics of Queensland, Australia. Yes some places are still underwater but they are receding. Currently here in Queensland we have another cyclone forming off the coast.

[@carolb6141]

He has! Check out his book, Live from the London Palladium: The World's Most Famous Theatre in the Words of the Stars Who Have Played There, It is available on Amazon.

[@rosamondmartin6842]

Prayers for everyone, please GOD keep your people in Queensland safe and calm the storms that are on the way . sending blessings to you all.♥🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏♥♥🙏🙏🙏🙏From London UK 🙏🙏🙏♥♥🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@Lyndell-P]

🇦🇺 🦘 You ended this video saying "Rod, thank you so much for the memories". I thank you for your memories Neil. You've met and known so many true ... stars ⭐ of film, theatre and music. You really should write a book 📚 about your many interesting friends - past and present. I'm sure it would be a best seller and (more importantly) of interest to many. First hand 'true' accounts about these famous people are rare! "Thank you" for sharing with us Neil. xx ⭐ 👔 👋

[@Lyndell-P]

@@tabitha4135 "Thank you" Tabitha. 👍 Good to know. 👋

[@patriciagellin2569]

What an interesting story? I always liked Rod Steiger. Now I have to look up Diana Dors movies. Neil, thanks for sharing.

[@rosemaryphelps2733]

On gosh. The Unholy Wife. I thought for a minute you were telling me they had made a movie about the Montecito Duchess. Half angel, half devil, she made Harry half a man 😂🙃

[@BeautifulBadandBizarre]

I’d love to hear about when you met Diana!!!! I would have been so thrilled to have met her. I also knew Jason and had the privilege of meeting him - I found him to be such a lovely generous person and so charismatic! Diana hated the title ‘the British Marilyn Monroe’ it was an albatross around her neck as far as her career went - she was an excellent trained and talented actress - one of our finest but the link with Marilyn blighted her! Love your videos every morning with my pot of coffee - great start to the day x

[@lesleymcshanemitchell9651]

Dirty Dtawers my Straight laced Dad called her. I did her Make Up for Years She was always pleasant and Proffesional Vivian Leigh Not so much

[@alijordan4141]

Wonderful story! That would make a great movie in itself!! He was a great actor!! Your wealth of memories certainly balances out the ghastly continuing chapters of "lost" princling and his worst half!! Heart of London looks as chilly as it is here in BC Canada!! Another sartorial hit with That tie!! A great week end to all in our little Global community!!

[@judysadowsky2186]

Hi Neil, love the greenery. I think spring is here. Love hearing old stories.

[@tinapeters5725]

Good morning Neil, thank you for this post, I never knew much Diana Dors, she wasn't held in high esteem by my mother's generation, just another blonde bombshell. Rod Steiger on the other had ,enjoyed his films, I will give Diana Dors a try, Thank you for fascinating insights to the lives of those people you have met

[@SuperMellow21]

Love you sharing some of your interesting insights into such real stars, thank you!

[@judewebb5694]

I am a little disorganised I have to say, one of my sisters would love to come & re-arrange everything. I loved Diana Dors, didn't her husband commit suicide following? Thanks for the story didnt know that. Her poor son though didn't know anything about her son. Best wishes x

[@paulwarner5674]

Everything going up. Even the MPs Salary by £2k. I wonder if they will be able to afford the heating bills.

[@shirleyslayton6796]

Love the new tye. Please do not tell me your like my husband it's in a pile he swears he knows where everything is. LOL

[@Lyndell-P]

I feel your pain Shirley. My husband of 42 years is a 'hoarder' in the true meaning of the word. True - but I love him anyway. 💞 LOL 😊 So, good luck! 👋

[@catpatrick3838]

👋🏼

[@atrinder8944]

I love these stories you bring us, this is a great channel.

[@Milady_Curtsey]

Lovely story Neil ! Thankyou 👏👏👏😎💖

[@sharpear1031]

You didn't mention English versatile performer and American TV success Richard Dawson, the second (or third?) husband. I met him once, and in my experience he was a polite, pleasant fellow.

[@adzj8072]

My husband's grandma is buried at the same cemetary as DD & AL. DD & AL occupy fabulous marble-edged side by side graves. Up until a few years ago, both were beautifully clean and lovingly cared for and always full of gorgeous fresh flowers. Not anymore though. Sadly, the two graves and headstones are somewhat neglected, and the once sparking white marble is stained in places. The last time we were there, the few flowers were dead. Sad, but even burial plots go the same way as those within. RIP to all those in one of the loveliest cemetarys I have ever been in.

[@JaniceKonstantinidis]

Hello Neil, good morning. You have met some wonderful people, Neil. Wow, Diana Dors; my grandmother loved her. How interesting you mention her. Thank you for yet another peek inside your memory box. When will you write your book; better publish it next year, you know there's a big book coming out this year.

[@maureenrossiter628]

Good to see you Neill im cheered up already ❤😂

[@karthymcg2104]

I love your stories, so interesting! Thanks for sharing ❤️🌺

[@patb.j.3358]

Neil, you should definitely write a book about all the interesting, well loved, brilliant and great people you have met. I saw Diana in Adam's Ant. She was a very beautiful woman.

[@lindaa9778]

Oh thank you very much for this story . I loved both these actors . What a stunning woman Diana Dors was . I most remember Rod Steiger in the film Oklahoma maybe because it's a favourite film of mine but he was great in that , so menacing . And who can get over Diana Dors in the video for Adam Ants song Prince Charming . The surprise at the time of her actually being in it still makes me smile .

[@LoriManning]

So cool

[@JstMee2]

Hi Neil 🤗 After seeing her in The Unholy Wife on Prime awhile back, I watched all of her movies I could find online!! I really liked all the ones I could find honestly, but I would say **Dead by Morning ~1955** was my favorite!! I don't remember if I had asked you about her before, I know I was going to.. LoL, my memory ain't what it used to be..

[@jerrygeorgopolis8015]

Neil, Very interesting incite to Rob Steiger. Enjoyed his intense acting style, and who can forget his roll "In the Heat of the Night," The Pawn Broker, or as Mussolini, W.C. Fields ! In an interview he gave before he died, he confessed to His one Big Fear , Forgetting His Lines !!

[@tri5ia]

Rod Steiger was a very fine actor. One of his best roles, IMO, was in 'In the Heat of the Night'.

[@angelatester2471]

I remember Diana ...... sometimes Talking Pictures show her films - or films she was in. Brilliant. A proper 'starlet'

[@bertramharbour4166]

so much facanating news in such a short clip.. off to imbd..

[@SueProv]

Interesting about Rod Steiger. He had a look in his eyes that I only saw in one other person. Richard Burton. Can't put my finger on it ...an intensity and a haunted look. Both great actors.

[@wendyboardman6107]

Diana Dores was a lovely woman. Once,when l was being treated for afternoon tea in a grand hotel, l think maybe the Savoy, l have forgotten, there was a pianist and Diana went and thanked him for his playing. So sweet never got above herself. Xxx

[@tishamathis1607]

How juicy.

[@joycem6266]

Hey Neil I did enjoyed your video ,Diana Dores .Envy of many . My Mothers era , and a trip to the movies when a bit if extra money was available was a real treat for her . This was a nice change to obsorb and food for thought . I enjoyed the change of focus and look forward to more of your changes of tune and down to earth reminicing Dont know the man but he too must have been a heart throb or our Diana would have given him a miss . Your life has seems to be like box of chocalots and no mistake More of the same would be good , breath of fresh air. 🤔🤔🤔☹️

[@maureentaphouse5206]

Oh more of these stories please.

[@kathybost1879]

thank you for the story. He was a great actor. usa

[@marcia5939]

Always liked Diana Dors, she had real character and was a good actress. It was so sad that she died years before her time followed by the tragedy of Alan Lake's shock death.

[@jackiedrowley3351]

I met Diana once she was so so nice to my friend and I and made us laugh xxx

[@hazelt9953]

I loved Diana Dors

[@lyndaa7560]

I loved Diana, she had no side, she could look absolutely gorgeous but if need be she could look absolutely horrible if the part called for it. Alan Lake was lost without her in his life, very sad story & it must’ve been heartbreaking for Jason. I envy you sometimes Neil, your life has been fascinating & you’re so down too Earth, suppose that comes of being a Yorkshire man, I’m from up North in Lancashire.xx

[@caroldonaldson4565]

Oh my! Rod looks ever so slightly girly in the beach-babe mode - never saw a man tie his 'blouse' like that and....those short shorts!😱🤦‍♀️

[@nataliek159]

I absolutely love Rod Steiger, he and Diana must have been such a hot couple! Diana Dors was such a lovely lady and so glamorous. Even though I was very young, I used to love watching her diet segment on TV AM and in The Worm That Turned by the Two Ronnies. I was inconsolable when she died from ovarian cancer and sadly my own mum would die from this at the same age. Please do more videos like these, we could do with a bit of class and glamour that is seriously lacking in the Hollywood of today.

[@celinefoff1863]

Diana once revealed on TV that : if you didn’t have men kicked down your bed room door. You have not lived”. Think that was her reply to a question ( I unfortunately cannot remember. But thought her reply was superb. Hence I remember the reply and not the question. Sorry)

[@jacquelinewilliamson8933]

Was there not a ex husband who left her skint .

[@Ukie_Hags_World]

Diana Dors -- aka: Diana d'Ors, The Siren of Swindon, The Hurricane in Mink. Whatever; wasn't she pretty? They just don't seem to make 'em like that anymore.