Diana Dors Adam and the Ants music video "Prince Charming", where she played the fairy godmother opposite Adam Ant, who played a male Cinderella figure. Having turned her life story into a cash flow through interviews and leaked tabloid stories, like many celebrities in their later careers, she turned to the autobiography to generate retirement cash. Between 1978 and 1984, she published four autobiographical books under her own name: "For Adults Only", "Behind Closed Dors", "Dors by Diana", and "A. to Z. of Men". Having gone through her first round of cancer treatment, by the early 1980s Dors' hour-glass figure had become
Prince Charming hero's name as "Charming"; the second, for "The Green Fairy Book", as "King Charming". Although neither one was a prince and the first was not royal, this may have been the original use of "Charming". Then, Oscar Wilde's 1890 novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray" refers ironically to "Prince Charming", perhaps the earliest use of the exact term. The main character, Dorian, is supposed to be a young actress's "Prince Charming", but he abandons her and in despair she commits suicide. In the early Disney animated feature, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (1937), when Snow White tells the dwarfs