Dors on Yield to the Night

[@stephenguppy7882]

DD was simply great, an astounding personality and one hell of an actress.

[@cliff9685]

Diana is so great! First saw her in Berserk and was immediately drawn to her. Her personality is magnificent. She is such a good storyteller! I could listen to her forever. She wasn’t like the other blonde bombshells of the time with being the breathy, babydoll type. Diana is ballsy and a hell of an actress!

[@chrisbacos]

ICYMI she is one of the "people we like" on the Beatles' Sgt Pepper LP.

[@barrylangford3276]

Diana was always referred to as the British Marilyn Monroe, but I always thought she was more like a British Shelley Winters... blonde, buxom, heavier in her later years and a wonderful and very funny character actress. Shame she and Shelley never worked together.

[@kyletpreston4421]

She was so amazing and her humor is fun to watch.

[@majordolbyscat]

"I'm not an actress... I'm a star!" Has to be one of my all time favourite anecdotes delivered beautifully by Diana Dors. Btw I think the actress in question was Carole Lesley

[@glamdolly30]

Yes, tragically Carole Lesley's screen career petered out and she suffered depression, committing suicide aged 38, in 1974. Considering her suicide must have been relatively recent when Diana told this story, I feel it may have been more tactful if she had refrained from naming the movie - which of course allowed the actress in question to be identified!

[@TrangPakbaby]

@@glamdolly30movies back then weren’t as accessible as they are now. Unless you were a real film buff, I doubt many people watching knew the actress in question.

[@Marcel_Audubon]

She was great in Yield to the Night

[@David-uf8ex]

She was a great actress and very underrated she did some great horror films

[@Cosford869]

I agree. She brought her screen presence to those pictures. And I think horror was the perfect genre for her. Her contribution to the 1973 film From Beyond The Grave was outstanding in a film of outstanding performances. The same year she had a small part in Theater Of Blood, again her performance shone in a picture full of star performance.

[@glamdolly30]

@@Cosford869 Diana should have had a bigger role in 'Theatre of Blood' it's such an amazing movie, and she and Vincent Price are about the most fabulous, camp movie pairing imaginable!

[@Cosford869]

@@glamdolly30 I remember the first time I saw Theater of Blood. I was 9 years old and Vincent Price terrified me! I think Diana's character was the shortest time on screen of the star actors that appeared and I would agree that a bigger role would have been great. Perhaps as Lionheart's wife, assisting him and their daughter (fantastic portrayal by Diana Rigg), imagine that!

[@markmeade2937]

She was brilliant in the 1971 film the amazing Mr Blunden, she played the awful house maid who locked two kids in there bedroom and where killed in a fire . Great film , brilliant acting and she was top notch ………

[@timsan55]

I agree with her up to a point in that Yield To The Night is a brilliant film, and she is great in it. But she seems to have forgotten The Amazing Mr Blunden in which she was also great. Highly recommend both films to those who haven't seen them.

[@JudgeMarmianWiZard]

Also creepy Mrs Ardroy in Hammer House of Horrors "children of the full Moon" .

[@timsan55]

@@JudgeMarmianWiZard Thanks for the tip ! Don't know that one, I'll look it up !

[@jhibberd6290]

Diana was an all rounder but she never got the opportunity to display her full talent

[@whyquestionanythingchannel6976]

@@JudgeMarmianWiZard I watch that the other day on britbox and yes she was amazing in it!

[@jasonlindsey9946]

I first saw her in an episode of Hitchcock. I was blown away by her beauty and talent. What she said at the end of the clip ,is what many actresses of today would proclaim.

[@Marcel_Audubon]

Yvonne Mitchell played one of the sympathetic screws at the prison in Yield to the Night, too

[@antoniod]

I saw YIELD TO THE NIGHT my first trip to London, at the ICA.

[@SarahHannah7]

Wonderful!! Thanks so much for this brilliant moment!

[@ZacandOllie]

She was a wee bit before my time, I think I have only seen her in the Steptoe and Son film.......she was fabulous in that though, beautiful.

[@miapdx503]

This woman! I just saw her on an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Hour. She sang, so wonderfully.

[@phillipmalone9496]

Diane Dors a. Blood y good actress

[@UNOwen1]

I just saw this, and was very happily amazed at Ms Dors' performante. She's really good. I was also hair to see Ms Athene Seyler in it (always had a special fineness for her, since I first saw her in Name Mine Mink). If you've not seen this, and are interested in a film - which, on the surface is somewhat related to I Want To Live!, with Ms Susan Hayward, I highly recommend it. I felt my chest getting tight 😉.

[@elizabeththomson6950]

Yeah diana was great in the movie was her best just feel her pain and sadness playing the roll

[@ZadenZane]

Wouldn't Dors have been great on 1980s TV. Not Blankety Blank and Wogan, I mean high budget high grade drama, they could have brought her on as Joan Collins/Alexis' nemesis in Dynasty. The best thing she got in her later years was The Two Ronnies' The Worm That Turned!

[@timelordvictorious]

She is very good in amazing mr blunder and yield to the night

[@andrewbrendan1579]

I wonder if the anecdote Diana Dors shares here inspired a scene in the 1980's movie "My Favorite Year" about the early days of television in 1950's Manhattan. Peter O'Toole finds out he's going to be on live television and says to Mark Linn-Baker, "YOU IDIOT...I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star!"

[@johncollins9673]

Loved Diana dors

[@jhibberd6290]

That wig really suits her. Very pretty lady

[@glamdolly30]

It's not a wig - Diana always had fabulous, thick hair despite the frequent bleachings (you never, ever saw this lady with dark roots!)

[@frankfarago2825]

"Dead Woman Walking." Basically you are following the really, really bad moves of a love-struck blond woman, her brutal execution of an innocent woman, and then being put to death. A real downer.

[@victorsilvester78]

I reckon diana dors is referring to the beautiful Carole Lesley.

[@richardronaldharrison842]

Diana Dors = ⭐!

[@alancaron984]

A Kid for 2 farthings is a very good movie

[@Marcel_Audubon]

now I hafta check out that movie to see who that "star" was

[@lillianflorence6056]

Woman in a dressing gown good

[@Muswell]

Carole Lesley

[@neilsaunders9309]

That's the one. Dead at 38.

[@glamdolly30]

@@neilsaunders9309 She was found dead at home of a drug overdose, by her poor husband. How tragic to have had success in movies as a young woman, and feel it's all over and there's no future at just 38. Suicide is such a tragic waste.

[@woohooboy]

Diana Dors fell victim to her own image as Britain's answer to Marilyn Monroe. As such, despite being a good actress with a solid range, she took on parts and became involved in projects that were second rate and beneath her. In her later years, she reinvented herself as a middle-aged battle-axe as her looks faded and her weight increased and gained a second lease on her acting career when her life was cut short due to cancer.

[@Garrysullivanjones]

What year is this interview please? I’ll say 1978-1981 maybe. Cheers mates

[@ginopietracupa4305]

No, the i nterview is from early '70s

[@garymartin6802]

@@ginopietracupa4305 This interview is from 'Tell Me Another' which ran from 1976 to 1979 + the actress Diana was referring to (Carole Lesley) died tragically of a drug overdose in 1974.

[@ginopietracupa4305]

@@garymartin6802 well so Diana was old fashioned because her hair-do is from early '70s . In 1976 or 1979 fashion was the most natural hair

[@garymartin6802]

@@ginopietracupa4305 Correct. Diana was referring to a lady who died in 1974 on a show that ran from 1976 to 1979 and her hairdo was from 1972.

[@ginopietracupa4305]

@@garymartin6802 but the interview , t he video clip was taped in 1972 ? or between 1976 and 1979 ?

[@dondad9914]

Aaaaahahaha

[@Tomboi992]

Wow Gemma Collins looks like her

[@frenchprovincial9602]

Diana is a wonderful lady, full of niceness and brains. Not like Gemma

[@Handlebar-MustDash]

LOL

[@Myplop]

How very dare you