Dianne Foster

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Dianne Foster
Foster in The Last Hurrah (1958)
Born
Olga Helen Laruska

(1928-10-31)October 31, 1928
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
DiedJuly 27, 2019(2019-07-27) (aged 90)
Occupations
  • Actress
  • model
Years active1951–1966
Spouse(s)Andrew Allan
(m. 1951; div. 195?)
Joel Murcott
(m. 1954; div. 1959)

Harold Rowe
(m. 1961; died 1994)
Children3

Dianne Foster (born Olga Helen Laruska; October 31, 1928 – July 27, 2019) was a Canadian actress of Ukrainian descent.[1]

Early life

Foster was born in

James Barrie's What Every Woman Knows.[3] In London in 1951, she appeared on stage in Agatha Christie's The Hollow and Orson Welles's Othello.[4]

At 14, she began a radio career,[3] subsequently moved to Toronto, and became one of Canada's top radio stars, working with Andrew Allan, drama supervisor for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on productions such as Stage '49.[5] She appeared on Radio Luxembourg in a broadcast of The Lives of Harry Lime.[4] She became a Walter Thornton model and also taught modeling at the Thornton school.[6] She married Andrew Allan in 1951.[citation needed]

Film

In March 1952, her husband returned to Canada, while she stayed in

Hollywood, where her first appearance proper that year was with Mickey Rooney in Drive a Crooked Road.[9] In 1955, Foster appeared on the cover of Picturegoer and co-starred in two films, Glenn Ford's The Violent Men and Burt Lancaster's The Kentuckian.[10][11]

Foster in Drive a Crooked Road (1954)

Although her film career continued, it was not on the same upward trajectory as before. In 1957, she co-starred in the biopic

BAFTA award.[13][14] In 1963, she made her last film appearance, in the Dean Martin vehicle Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?.[15]

Television

In 1960, Foster was the title guest star in the episode "Lawyer in Petticoats" on the short-lived

Have Gun Will Travel season four, episode 20.[18]

After a three-year absence, she returned to the big screen in

CBS's The Lloyd Bridges Show (1962–1963), the ABC medical drama Breaking Point (1963–1964), and The Fugitive. Foster appeared as a pilot in an episode of My Three Sons and as a librarian in a 1964 episode of Petticoat Junction and as Amy Collins in the 1965 Green Acres episode "How to See South America by Bus". She guest-starred in the ABC drama Going My Way, starring Gene Kelly. She made four guest appearances on Perry Mason between 1962 and 1965, an episode of Honey West, "A Matter of Wife and Death" (episode 4) in 1965, and appeared in the "Caesar's Wife" episode of The Big Valley in 1966.[19][20] Diane Foster also appeared on two episodes of Tales of Wells Fargo
(1960 and 1962).

Personal life and later years

In 1951, Foster married

Van Nuys dentist. On November 14, 1963, her son, Dustin Louis Rowe, was born in Los Angeles.[10] Foster died in July 2019 at the age of 90.[23]

Selected filmography

References

  1. ^ a b "Dianne Foster". Archived from the original on September 21, 2017.
  2. ^ "(editor's note)". Screenland. 58 (8): 17. June 1954. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
  3. ^
    Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  4. ^
  5. ^ Letter, Mickey Macdonald, Edmonton AB to Alice Frick, Toronto ON, 1949.04.29 in Marguerite (Clifton) Macdonald fonds, City of Edmonton Archives (MS 609)
  6. ^ "Dianne Foster Stars Opposite Lizabeth Scott". Chattanooga Daily Times. May 17, 1953. p. 27.
  7. – via Google Books.
  8. ^ "Bad for Each Other (1954) - Irving Rapper - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie". AllMovie.
  9. ^ "Drive a Crooked Road (1954)". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved August 18, 2017.
  10. ^ a b "Dianne Foster - The Private Life and Times of Dianne Foster. Dianne Foster Pictures". www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com.
  11. ^ "Search Results Page". www.afi.com.
  12. ^ "Complete Filmography Dianne Foster". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved August 18, 2017.
  13. ^ "The Last Hurrah (1958) - John Ford - Review - AllMovie". AllMovie.
  14. ^ "BAFTA Awards Search - BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org.
  15. ^ Erickson, Hal. "Dianne Foster Biography". AllMovie. Retrieved August 18, 2017.
  16. ^ "Overland Trail". TVGuide.com.
  17. ^ "Bonanza: The Mill (1960) - John Rich - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie". AllMovie.
  18. ^ "Have Gun Will Travel 4x20 Shadow of a Man". YouTube. July 7, 2017. Archived from the original on 2020-08-19. Retrieved August 18, 2017.
  19. ^ a b "Dianne Foster - Movies and Filmography - AllMovie". AllMovie.
  20. ^ "The Big Valley". TVGuide.com.
  21. ^
    St. Petersburg Independent. Associated Press
    . May 27, 1959. p. 2-A. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  22. ^ SAG-AFTRA Fall 2019

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