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Word: dianas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Diana Dors is the kind of girl that can happen anywhere-and sometimes does. What Marilyn Monroe is to the U.S., what Gina Lollobrigida is to Italy, what Martine Carol is to France, shapely, blue-eyed Diana Dors, 24, is to Great Britain. Diana is a platinum blonde whose indefinable chemistry and heady allure have been greeted with international enthusiasm. The blasé French have called her "ravis-sante." The Italians have sighed "Mama mia!" Even the British, ever fond of understatement, have referred to her as "Britain's best visible export." Not one to belittle herself, Diana, once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Visible Export | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

Libidinous Lip. Diana sells so well that she has become 1) England's highest paid vaudeville entertainer at ?1,000 ($2,800) a week, and 2) the nation's second highest paid film star* at a closely guarded salary. J. Arthur Rank has signed her to a new long-term contract, and experts say that he has acquired in one stroke "the most valuable property in British films today" and the girl with "the most libidinous lower lip in the business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Visible Export | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

...born Diana Fluck in grimy Swindon, in the industrial Midlands, and got started young. At 13, wearing a tight bathing suit, she passed for 17 ("I was very advanced") and won a beauty contest. At 15, she had played in four movies, but at 17, she was a has-been, the victim of a passing movie crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Visible Export | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

Next town they come to, Burt goes to work and soon has his money back in pocket. But by that time he has something else (Diana Lynn) in prospect, almost as hot as Texas and not nearly so flat. She's a schoolmarm, and she plays him mountain music on what sounds like a clavichord. Poor slavey-she's got more sex than teacher, but what good is sex, she asks herself ruefully, against a clavichord? Silly girl. The hero soon enough succumbs to manifest destiny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 26, 1955 | 9/26/1955 | See Source »

...Steel Hour (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). The Seventh Veil, starring Diana Lynn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Aug. 8, 1955 | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

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