Dianne Foster

About Dianne Foster

Who is it?: Actress
Birth Day: October 31, 1928
Birth Place:  Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Occupation: Actress; painter, musician
Years active: 1951–1966
Spouse(s): Andrew Allan (1951-?) (divorced) Joel Murcott (1954-1959) (divorced) 2 children Dr. Harold Rowe DDS (1961-1994) (his death) 1 child

Dianne Foster

Dianne Foster was born on October 31, 1928 in  Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, is Actress. A curvaceous and comely lead and second lead actress of the 1950s and 1960s screen, Dianne Foster was born with the unlikely stage name of Olga Helen Laruska on October 31, 1928 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Of Ukrainian parentage, she began her stage career performing in high school plays and in local community theater productions. Her school drama teacher saw extreme promise in her and encouraged her to continue her studies. Dianne then enrolled at the University of Alberta and majored in drama.She eventually found work in Toronto as a model and as both a radio and stage actress. Encouraged again by her high school teacher, she saved up enough money to go to England for further training and to find work. She won a stage role in the play "The Hollow" starring Jeanne De Casalis that later toured. Following a radio job with Orson Welles, she was handed (by Welles) the part of Cassio's whore in a West End production of "Othello" while Laurence Olivier was holding court at the St James Theater. Welles and Peter Finch starred as Othello and Iago, respectively, with Olivier in the director's seat.After establishing herself as a "bad girl" second lead in such "B" level British films as The Quiet Woman (1951), in which she played a scheming ex-girlfriend of Derek Bond and The Lost Hours (1952) as a temptress opposite Mark Stevens, Dianne was encouraged to come to Hollywood in the early 1950's. Her first role in Hollywood was as a British character in a TV episode of "Four Star Playhouse" opposite 'David Niven'. As a result of her fine performance, Harry Cohn placed her under a Columbia Pictures contract even though she had yet secured an agent. Most of her subsequent films were standard adventures in which she provided a pleasant diversion from the rugged action going on around her. On occasional she was handed more substantial roles.Dianne made a sturdy US cinematic debut in the film noir favorite Bad for Each Other (1953) as a dedicated nurse and love interest to Dr. Charlton Heston. It was Lizabeth Scott who played the bad girl here. Dianne would make a strong stand in westerns notably opposite Dana Andrews in Three Hours to Kill (1954), Glenn Ford and Edward G. Robinson in The Violent Men (1954) and James Stewart and Audie Murphy in Night Passage (1957). Audie Murphy. She was also quite good, if not better, as Richard Conte's wife in The Brothers Rico (1957) as they struggle together to distance him from his mob ties. On occasion Dianne returned to England to film where she appeared in Isn't Life Wonderful! (1954), as a snooty American heiress out to impress Robert Urquhart, and, briefly, in Gideon's Day (1958) as Ronald Howard's wife who threatens Jack Hawkins' title character. Her last two films of the 1950s decade were opposite Alan Ladd in The Deep Six (1958) and Spencer Tracy in The Last Hurrah (1958).In the 1960s Dianne moved into episodic TV with guest parts in dramas (Perry Mason (1957), Route 66 (1960), Peter Gunn (1958), Ben Casey (1961), Hawaiian Eye (1959), The Detectives (1959), Honey West (1965)), comedies (Petticoat Junction (1963), My Three Sons (1960), "Green Acres") and, of course, westerns (Bonanza (1959), The Deputy (1959), "Have Gun--Will Travel", Laramie (1959), Wagon Train (1957), Gunsmoke (1955), The Big Valley (1965)). She appeared in only two more films before retiring in 1967 -- co-starring with David Janssen in King of the Roaring 20's: The Story of Arnold Rothstein (1961) and with Dean Martin and Elizabeth Montgomery in the light comedy Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? (1963).Married twice, Dianne has one child from her first marriage and twins from her second. She retired in order to focused on marriage and family, as well as painting. She continues to live in California.
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Occupation Actress
Age 96 years old
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Born October 31, 1928 ( Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)
Birthday October 31
Town/City  Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Nationality Canada

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Biography/Timeline

1951

In 1951, Foster married Andrew Allan, a drama supervisor for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, in London.

1952

In March, 1952, her husband returned to Canada while she stayed in London, England, to honor her five-year contract with a British film company.

1953

In 1953, she co-starred alongside Charlton Heston and Lizabeth Scott in the middling Bad for Each Other. In 1954, she was signed by Columbia Pictures and relocated to Hollywood, where her first appearance proper that year was with Mickey Rooney in Drive a Crooked Road.

1954

In 1954, she married Joel A. Murcott, a Hollywood radio-television scriptwriter, in Owensboro, Kentucky. At 39, Murcott was 14 years her senior and had been married previously.

1955

In 1955, Foster appeared on the cover of Picturegoer and co-starred in two big films, Glenn Ford's The Violent Men and Burt Lancaster's The Kentuckian.

1956

On February 14, 1956, she gave birth to twins: a son, Jason, and a daughter, Jodi. That same year she also filed for divorce from Murcott. She asked for custody and $1 in token alimony. The couple reconciled, but it proved to be temporary as they separated twice more before finally divorcing in 1959.

1957

Although her film career continued, it was not on the same upward trajectory as before. In 1957 she co-starred in the biopic Monkey on My Back about boxer Barney Ross, Night Passage with James Stewart and The Brothers Rico with Richard Conte.

1958

In 1958, she starred with Alan Ladd in The Deep Six, and that same year she appeared alongside Jack Hawkins in Gideon of Scotland Yard before her last really big picture, The Last Hurrah. It featured an all-star cast that included Spencer Tracy, Pat O'Brien, and Basil Rathbone, and was nominated for a BAFTA award.

1960

In 1960, Foster was the title guest star in the episode "Lawyer in Petticoats" on the short-lived NBC western series Overland Trail starring William Bendix and Doug McClure. Foster also appeared in 1960 in three other NBC westerns Bonanza (as Joyce Edwards in "The Mill"), Wagon Train (as Leslie Ivers in "Trial for Murder: Part 2"), and Riverboat (as Marian Templeton in "Path of the Eagle"). Also in 1960 she appeared in Have Gun Will Travel Series 4, Episode 20.

1962

Foster continued to appear in television programs, such as the Wild Wild West episode "The Night of the Lord of Limbo," CBS's The Lloyd Bridges Show (1962–1963) and the ABC medical drama Breaking Point (1963–1964) and in The Fugitive. 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, and appeared in the "Caesar's Wife" episode of The Big Valley in 1966.

1963

After her divorce from Murcott she married Dr. Harold Rowe, a Van Nuys dentist. On November 14, 1963, her son, Dustin Louis Rowe, was born in Los Angeles.

1966

Foster retired from show Business in 1966 to concentrate on raising her three children. She still lives in California and is an accomplished Pianist and Painter.

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