Diane Bond appeared in films like In Like Flint, House of 1,000 Dolls, A Swingin' Summer, Pajama Party and as a beach extra in the TV series The Beverly Hillbillies.
12 Facts About Diane Bond
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Diane Bond was born on September 25,1945, in Los Angeles, California, and grew up horseback riding, skating and skiing on her father's ranch in Colorado.
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Diane Bond appeared as Emily Lawrence in a 1964 episode of Petticoat Junction called "Mother of the Bride".
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Diane Bond received featured billing in 1965's A Swingin' Summer, as the "girl in the polka dot bikini" and the opening credits show her in her pink and white bikini dancing on water skis.
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Diane Bond returned to television with a couple of appearances in 1965 on The Beverly Hillbillies with a role as a beach extra, and then did a role doubling for Claudia Cardinale in Blindfold.
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Diane Bond's best known film was In Like Flint, directed by Gordon Douglas, where she played Jan, one of secret agent Derek Flint's girlfriends.
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Diane Bond was very athletic and often did her own stunts or hired out as a stunt woman between acting jobs.
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Diane Bond's last known film appearance was an uncredited bit part in the 1968 Jane Fonda film Barbarella.
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In 1967, Diane Bond moved to Italy and began studying art, attending the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera of Milan and the School of Fine Arts at the Sforza Castle, graduating in 1976.
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Diane Bond began working with a group of feminists on several projects.
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Long before The Flat Stanley Project began documenting paperdoll travels, Diane Bond's dolls, beginning with "Donna" in 1976, were traveling the world, being photographed, obtaining passport stamps to prove their existence.
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For thirty years, Diane Bond has traveled with her "dolls" on three continents.