How would you rank Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, Mamie Van Doren, & Diana Dors from best-looking to worst-looking?

Marilyn, Mamie, Jayne. Diana Dors shouldn't be in a poll with those three.

Marilyn, the woman with the best smile ever. The others are boring in comparison.

R1, why? Diana was one of the biggest blonde bombshells of the 50s.

Marilyn. The other three are tied for last place.

Oh, John... What about programs and textbooks?

Monroe was gorgeous.

Mansfield had genuine sexual charisma and her own camp glamor.

The other two were blonde.

Tab Hunter

I wonder if they all met.

I think Mamie Van Doren was the most beautiful and Jayne Mansfield second but Marilyn Monroe had a spark they didn’t have.

R9, who do you think was more beautiful: Marilyn Monroe or Diana Dors?

Mamie, with the glamour girl fixings, was a sight to behold, but she just doesn't have a filmography worth remembering. Even Marilyn's replacement, Sheree North, starred in better films.

All looked similar

Marilyn had a charisma the others didn’t. When the camera loves someone, you don’t look at anyone else.

Jayne was grotesque.

R14, that is Diana Dors in that picture

Are you the poster who couldn't decide on a nose to get? Just asking. If yes, keep your own. And obviously, Marilyn. It's not just objective looks it's the charisma. R13 said it perfectly.

Jayne and Mamie...not sure who the other people are

R17, That's Jayne and Mamie with Mamie's "3 Nuts in Search of a Bolt" co-star Tommy Noonan, and his wife Pocahontas Crowfoot (Pokie Noonan).

Marilyn looked softly pretty, at her best. The other 3 looked coarse, to say the least.

Marilyn, Mamie then Diana. Jayne was fugly imo.

Hey! What about me!?!?!

This is 2024. Get with the program.

1. Miss Lindsey 🌹

2. Scarlett Johansson 🌼

3. Jennifer Lawrence 🌷

4. Zoe Zaldana 🌸

Diana Dors absolutely doesn’t belong. OP probably a Brit. Carry on being irrelevant!

Just on looks and nothing else Eva Gabor beats them all.

Marilyn, Diana, Jayne, Mamie.

It wasn't their looks that made them famous.

Their talents were their tits and their asses.

None of them had any real acting, singing or dancing talents, including crazy ass Marilyn.

Roses are red.

Violets are blue.

Let me shit in your mouth.

I love Brandon Routh.

Marilyn, Mamie, Jayne...

Diana at the very bottom of list.

Uncanny resemblance:

I can't believe Richard Dawson was married to Diana Dors. She was a top actress and singer at the time, and he was still unknown. She could have done so much better than Mr. future Family Feud.

R30, I can believe. She looked like an overripe blonde at a bedsit. Nothing special about her.

Dors looks like an Asian manicurist named Lucy.

I'm glad we're finally discussing Diana Dors here and on the other thread.

She just does not get enough attention on this forum, especially given the enormous contributions she made to 20th century world culture!

The only thing enormous about her is her ass.

Marilyn. Her image outlives all of us.

Dear R33:

Just an FYi: there is a multi-part thread currently on DL about superstar/humanitarian/noted scholar Dorothy Kilgallen.

Mamie Van Doreen is still alive at 93.

Best looking: Marilyn, Mamie, Jayne

Sexiest: Mamie, Jayne, Marilyn

Diana

R38, you forgot someone

Diana Dors doesn’t merit a mention

Why didn't Marilyn wear her hair longer as often as the other 3 women did?

I wonder if Marilyn had lived if she would have stayed platinum or darkened it.

Diana Dors is a John Waters version of Marilyn Monroe.

R44, I don't know what you mean

The Diana Dors troll is getting worse than the Condi troll. At least Condi isn't fat. Well, fat and dead to be fair.

Diana was slim:

Perfection:

R42, like this?

Grace Kelly had them all beat.

Tipi Hendren too.

Diana Dors is like the great value Mamie Van Doren

Diana had coarse features. Jayne did too, but she had charisma.

Diana was the best actress out of them

What was she in?

R55, Diana Dors gave an excellent performance in Yield To The Night

The other three were all Marilyn knockoffs but had their unique charms. Mamie had the least credibility as to any performances and was just an extreme blonde though maybe the pretties. Most of Diana’s work was in British stuff not widely seen in America but she really did have some talent beyond the total fake blonde look. Jayne did a couple of decent things but was largely self promotion.

None of them are Thai or in my program.

Mamie Van Doren and Anna Nicole Smith:

Mamie loves Madonna.

Which one had the most successful child?

Marilyn was the only one among the four who was childless.

Who was the most gay friendly?

Diana Dors looks like she had at least eight illegal abortions.

R63, Mamie!

R65, Go Mamie!

Old Mamie tweet:

Let's try that again.

In which film did each woman give their best acting performance?

Marilyn, the others weren't all that.

I think Marilyn was the only real actress among them

Mamie was always the most reserved, rarely flashed any skin.

Marilyn of course, but Mamie seems like she would be a lot of fun to hang out with and had her head screwed on much better than the other 3.

Sheree North was a great actress who was very underrated.

Diana Dors gave one of the best acting performances in cinema history in Yield To The Night.

Mamie and Pamela

Marilyn (Beautiful).

Mamie (Beautiful).

Jayne (She was pretty, but just too much.)

Diana (She wasn’t beautiful, the blonde hair made her look cheap.)

R76, what's unattractive about her face?

Her proportions look strange

To each his own I guess. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and all that. It's just that Dors looked so cheap.

Dors would have looked a lot prettier with a little less weight and her real hair colour.

Diana never wore much makeup

Stunning

Whoopi Goldberg & Miss Lindsey

Great at comedy also

Why didn't Jayne like Mamie?

R85, because Mamie was competition. Mamie insists she and Jayne were friends, but Jayne once called Mamie "the drive-ins answer to Monroe."

What about Cleo Moore and Barbara Nichols? Or even Joi Lansing?

R50 mand R51: Grace Kelly and co. were the "cool blondes", known for their cool reserve. Totally different species.

I don't think Barbara Nichols could be compared to Marilym=n, et al. She was a character actress who played cheap, tragic blonde. Joi Lansing was just an ornament and no serious competition for Marilyn and Co,

Norma Jean had a perfect, timeless beauty and was well read: first place. Mansfield was highly intelligent and accomplished despite her airhead act, plus me and her share the same birth date: second place.

As for Mamie and Diana: Van Doren is yicky, Dors looked like a midcentury hardcore porn performer.

Mamie, at 93, is the only one among those blondes (Marilyn, Jayne, Diana, Sheree, Barbara, Cleo, Joi) still with us. Her ex-husband, bandleader Ray Anthony, is also still around, at 102. Their only son, Perry Anthony, 68, is also still alive.

Marilyn was pretty but she did have some help from the plastic surgeon who whittled down her nose and chin.

Mamie always looked like a whore.

How were they in school? Any of them popular?

Mamie Van Doren is forgettable and I've never heard of Diana Dors outside of this forum.

Marilyn is unforgettable, and Jayne was exceptional. The rest, who cares.

R94, DD is an icon

Great looks

Who was more famous out of Mamie and Diana?

Seeing it objectively, most of them were not really remarkable and should have thanked their lucky stars for the fact that they ever managed to become successful.

Marilyn was genuinely beautiful after plastic surgery, and superbly styled to look glamorous even though she was white trash through and through. She was an extremely mannered, artificial actress and she spoke, rather than sang, in tune. If she had not died young, most people would have only remembered her as an old plastic surgery victim who made frequent appearances in Columbo, Murder She Wrote, the Love Boat and Dynasty.

Mamie van Doren is the 1950s equivalent of Pamela Anderson: generically pretty, cheap-looking and marginally talented at best. And just like Pamela, she's managed to hold on to her celebrity status for most of her life, even if nobody quite knows how she's managed to achieve this.

Jayne Mansfield was more intelligent than most actresses and a good enough violinist, but nowhere near the genius that most people say she was. She was also a bland actress, a bad singer and a bad dancer, but she was tall, wore sleazy clothes and a ton of makeup. However, she had a tragic death, which has also turned her into a popular culture icon, albeit a mid-to-lower range one.

Diana Dors was the British Jayne Mansfield, but on top of being on the plainer side and hiding it by dressing and styling herself like a whore, she couldn't even play any instruments. Her alleged intelligence is limited to being frequently associated with criminals, and recording the shenanigans of politicians and businessmen in orgies, during which she supplied them with drugs and C-list celebrities.

R98, Diana was a great actress

I guess Marilyn Monroe wins

R1 does not know what the R1 position is for, because she's a "pouncer" who doesn't give a shit about her responsibility.

Even though she's correct and would have made a fine R2.

Marilyn. Then Mamie. Jayne wasn’t nearly as beautiful as those two, but she’s marginally better looking than Diana Dors.

Marilyn

Mamie

Jane and Diana looked coarse and blowsy.

Who is the fucking Diana Dors troll?

They're all good looking and I'd like to be the filling in a naked blonde sandwich.

Marilyn had a piano- but could she do this?