Diana Dors and Bob Hope 1 (1 of 2)

[@daisydeb]

What a talented lady. She came across really well in this.

[@denisenoemyschizotypaldiso3755]

Great timing! Diana Dors had a knack for comedy.

[@bellysize]

Yes indeed. She was amazing. I just decided to look her up and found this clip. When I was 6, I lived in England for a year. My dad was in the RCAF and stationed there. I had this real crush on Diana Dors. I think I had good taste. 😅

[@Stevebaby123]

She was very talented. Underrated.

[@capitanfuturo594]

Agree

[@trudyramgren8817]

She was so likeable. RIP dear Diana

[@rolandgallone6513]

Underrated legend

[@SC-uq2jf]

Diana Dors never played a "dumb blonde", that image was foisted on her by her manager/husband, who bankrupted her before he died of advanced stage syphilis. She was actually a professionally trained actress; look at her stage performances which aired on BBC later in life. Her early films emphasized her looks; not her acting. SIDEBAR: While in the states, she had an affair with Rod Stieger during a film they were in; Diana Dors was said to be very frank with men and if she liked them they had a relationship, she turned Bob Hope down many times, she said she was not interested.

[@myrahouse2368]

He worked hard to promote her he deserves some credit.

[@TheGiantKillers]

Very few of the dumb blondes were dumb. Check out Jane Mansfield.

[@capitanfuturo594]

Diana Dors died of ovarian cancer. Stop writing crap.

[@SC-uq2jf]

@@capitanfuturo594 What are you talking about. I NEVER wrote that she DID NOT die of ovarian cancer. Read my INFORMATIVE comment again. Here is an excerpt, I wrote: " Diana Dors never played a "dumb blonde", that image was foisted on her by her MANAGER/HUSBAND, who bankrupted her before HE died of advanced stage syphilis".

[@64098]

Positively my favorite Blonde Bombshell! For me, nobody could top her!

[@timmcgee5574]

Simply love Diana. So gorgeous ❤❤❤

[@godhams]

Even though she had to unfortunately play the dump blonde it was quite clear she was no such thing even in this scenario...she wasn't all kittish (like Marylin & Mansfield) she was clear & precise & completely on it!! Wasn't she wonderful?!!

[@capitanfuturo594]

"dumb blonde" ? stop writing crap. All blonde women are explosive. There is absolutely nothing silly about a seductive blonde woman.

[@stephenpowers51]

Oh my, she is beautiful here. So talented, and as another has said, so underrated. Great singer too.

[@hebneh]

“Well, it says so right over there on that card” made me laugh out loud.

[@amenic1894]

What a beautiful lady Diana Dors was

[@mop714]

Diana was a natural ... at acting, modelling, comedic, and obvriously intelligent.

[@redmondsmusic]

This was woman was absolutely amazing.....and on more than one level.

[@MrDavey2010]

What talent. Superb.

[@14bonkyb]

I like both, but they were very different. Marilyn cultivated the dumb blonde persona as a character, far removed from her own personality. She was extremely Intelligent and if you have any doubts on her acting, see Bus Stop, Niagara, Don't Bother to Knock, but like Diana, she was also given material beneath her talents, they didn't get much of a say in it back then. Diana was however, better disciplined as a person and stronger emotionally, what a great movie Yield To The Night is, wonderful

[@JamesVaughan]

DD was terrific in Y to the N. Arguably her best dramatic role. Too bad they keep removing it from YT every time someone uploads it.

[@greta6458]

Marilyn was extremely talented, brilliant, only too much unsure about her qualities, unfortunately, so that she had to stick on the sexy side of her personality. Diana Dors looks like she, first of all, was smart 'in life' They cannot be compared.

[@semsemeini7905]

She was charming.

[@museumtoezichter]

Yes “prince charming” 😉

[@frankgoudy933]

I remember her when I was a kid and what I remember was her body. But know I see how funny she was really was.

[@jamesfox2579]

This is so hilarious!😂

[@JL0ndon]

The writing on this is impeccable! So witty and clever! Diana held her own with bob! It’s really a great back and forth. She deserved to a few better films. You can tell she has so much personality and comic timing. Bob and his writers though never let down with good little quips and zingers

[@snowyowel7961]

BoB hope was so funny I really liked him a lot 💖

[@EcoGreensFarm]

My new fav line: ❝Last one to the boat is a Schnook!❞

[@cellmate1]

She had great comedic chops

[@Thesavageeye]

GORGEOUS WONDERFUL DORS‼️🌟🌹

[@jaymesguy239]

This was during her (ultmately failed) attempt to establish a film career in Hollywood (with the help of two appallingly bad movies) and the "swimming pool" incident Bob was referrring to at the start was the public relations disaster of her manager-husband's bad behaviour during a pool party Diana arranged for the press and people fell or were pushed into the pool. This certainly didn't help Diana attempts to woo the American press at all.

[@kevinlongman007]

Bob Hope wasn't a yank tho. He was born and raised in England for the first five years before his family emigrated to the USA.

[@vantheman1238]

Diana is amazing on this so beautiful

[@RussCampbell11]

So stunning at that age. More like Marilyn Monroe.

[@jaysoper3974]

in much better days, for her & the Anglo world!

[@nintendy]

She could have stayed in the US - they wanted her badly, but she would only do what she wanted; as Rod Steiger once said; 'Nobody tells Dors what to do'! - and they didn’t!

[@gablecrawford7873]

Diana I have a feeling for meaning I liked her

[@vtorialyn]

You make some good points :)

[@centigradz2centigradz289]

While Marilyn was deep and closed off Diana was the exact opposite. She wore her heart on her sleeve. She didn't shy away from her past. She was a British gal who loved rough men. Marilyn was having crazy parties behind closed doors but Diana was very upfront about hers. She was also quick witted. She had a modern face. By modern standards she was very meek. Scarlett Johansson doing it in a hotel elevator is all the rage now. It was her husbands who couldn't keep up with her glamorous life. Unlike Catherine zeta Jones Diana didn't marry Hollywood men to get her career going. She loved her crooks just like Katie price. She never changed to appease the American audience.

[@hebneh]

Diana was quite sharp and had a lot of potential, but a very messy life kind of wrecked what she could have been.

[@andrewyoung2796]

"Alimony"😁

[@stephenkavanagh3560]

Andrew Young -- alimony, otherwise known as “ all yer money”

[@markgiles9449]

What a babe

[@kierra05]

What year is this ?

[@ginadyson4214]

did this show come out in the 50's???? please let me know. thanks

[@arwoldee]

Anyone know what year this was?

[@jamesfox2579]

1957

[@serenityinside1]

What a cliche / stunning sexy bright talented woman ruins career + life by picking utterly useless abusive men. That’s men plural too , cos they never learn.sad and bonkers 🙄😟

[@PV-pu5iu]

Was Richard Dawson abusive?

[@Lytton333]

She looked like a nuclear missile.

[@amandamoraes9222]

@Sweet Paradoks ugly? What??

[@TheYouthquaker]

Sweet Paradoks Show your ugly face, asshole. Diana was stunning and far better looking than you ever will be.

[@bgmeadows6085]

Sadly, in her later years, Diana became a parody of herself.

[@robertocastelan8683]

BG Meadows ..she get chubby and..sad..

[@KRYPTOS_K5]

I think we here in Brasil already have women who still are feminine (more or less submissive and pretty) than the US women -- and they are thin and beautiful... Last one in the boat is a schnook!!!! LoL

[@mike627]

Don't point to my ad libs!

[@ZJ-ne9kn]

She has always interested me she never made it here really as big but she has her followers and i can see why she did fall off right around end of her marriage to dawson which makes me wonder 😅😅

[@AleiatheEnchanted]

she looks like Thalia

[@robertocastelan8683]

Dani Elle ..thalia copio mucho de Marilyn Monroe y "otras" como, Dianita Dors, Jayne Mansfield. Igual : Madonna, lady gaga, etc Que tambien copiaron mucho a estas rubias platinos.

[@vtorialyn]

She has that Marilyn Monroe look, but so much more intelligent sounding. I adore her. I've never seen the Marilyn attraction, she always sounded so corny, fake and dumb, and never could act very well. Diana is so much more attractive imo.

[@davidpar2]

Both women were very intelligent. The difference is that Dors was emotionally stable, whereas Monroe was not

[@antiapps]

somtimes she looks similar to rose mcgowan

[@greta6458]

Surely Diana Dors was more sensational and smart without the huge personal problems Marilyn suffered, so she was far more free to be herself without any fear to be inadequate or ridiculed. But toward the end of her life she became more and more distasteful to me. Maybe she was that way from the beginning, I don't know, but I didn't appreciate her anymore

[@roystone9932]

Diana Dors was a very intelligent woman ........apart from being very beautiful .

[@greta6458]

Sure, she was intelligent, self-assured, beautiful but also somebody I couldn't appreciate less, a hussy. She was also a catholic, so ok..... Rip

[@sharksport01]

Without personal problems? 🤣

[@grantg7457]

I can't believe how sexist it was then