Diana Dors

See the list of her movies and other details at the IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002047). Glenda Farrell has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to Motion Pictures, at 6524 Hollywood Boulevard. I suppose they were afraid that if my real name, Diana Fluck, was in lights and one of the lights blew...". She died from lung cancer and was interred in the West Point US Military Academy Post Cemetery, West Point, New York. "They asked me to change my name. She remained with the show until ill health forced her departure in November 1970. She was once married to future Family Feud game show host Richard Dawson, and later married actor Alan Lake. She was appearing on Broadway in a production of Forty Carats in 1969 when she was diagnosed with cancer.

She had previously worked with Jack Hylton. Farrell went out of vogue in the 1940s but made a comeback later in life, winning an Emmy Award in 1963, for her work in the television series Ben Casey. Her best work as an actress was when she played a murderer in the 1956 film Yield To The Night. In this role Farrell was promoted as being able to speak 400 words in 40 seconds. She was considered the British equivalent of the blonde bombshells of Hollywood. She became one of Warner Brothers most prolific actresses of the 1930s, solidifying her success with her own film series, as Torchy Blane "Girl Reporter". Diana Dors (October 23, 1931 – May 4, 1984) was a British actress born in Swindon, England as Diana Fluck. Her brassy persona was used to great effect in Little Caesar (1930) opposite James Cagney, in I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) opposite Paul Muni, in Havana Widows (1933) with Blondell, and in Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) opposite Fay Wray.

Signed to Warner Brothers, she came to personify the wise-cracking, hard-boiled, and somewhat dizzy blonde of the early talkies, along with fellow Warner Brothers contractee Joan Blondell, with whom she would be frequently paired. Born in Enid, Oklahoma, Farrell came to Hollywood towards the end of the silent era, after establishing herself on Broadway. Glenda Farrell (June 30, 1904 – May 1, 1971) was an American film actress.