1. Diane Jean McBain was an American actress who, as a Warner Brothers contract player, reached a brief peak of popularity during the early 1960s.
23 Facts About Diane McBain
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Diane McBain moved to the Los Angeles area at an early age and began her showbusiness career as an adolescent model in print and television advertisements.
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Diane McBain signed a seven-year contract with Warners on her 18th birthday.
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Diane McBain made her television acting debut in 1959 in two episodes of Maverick, March 8 with Jack Kelly and November 22, with James Garner, as well as the October 16 episode of 77 Sunset Strip.
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Diane McBain was given a prominent ingenue role in her first feature, the $3.5 million Ice Palace alongside Richard Burton and Robert Ryan.
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The filmed-on-location Technicolor epic was released on January 2,1960, to mixed reviews, but Diane McBain's notices were generally favorable.
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Diane McBain returned to guest starring on shows like Hawaii Five-O.
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Diane McBain then supported Debbie Reynolds in Mary, Mary.
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Diane McBain's last film for Warners was A Distant Trumpet with Donahue and Suzanne Pleshette, the final film of director Raoul Walsh.
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Diane McBain turned down the role and Warners elected not to renew her contract.
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Diane McBain guest-starred in Arrest and Trial, Wendy and Me, Kraft Suspense Theatre, Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre, Burke's Law, The Wild Wild West, The Man from UNCLE, and Vacation Playhouse.
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Diane McBain was announced for the films Spring Is for Crying and Halcyon Years but neither was made.
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Diane McBain was Elvis Presley's leading lady in Spinout alongside Shelley Fabares and Deborah Walley, and later that year she guest-starred on Batman.
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Diane McBain made two films with Fabian Forte at American International Pictures, Thunder Alley, directed by Richard Rush, and Maryjane, directed by Maury Dexter.
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Diane McBain supported Gardner McKay in I Sailed to Tahiti with an All Girl Crew and went to Crown International Pictures for Five the Hard Way aka The Sidehackers.
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Diane McBain toured Vietnam in 1968 with Tippi Hedren and Joey Bishop.
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Diane McBain guest-starred on Love, American Style, Mannix, To Rome with Love, Land of the Giants, and Mod Squad.
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Towards the end of the 1970s and in the early 1980s Diane McBain was in Donner Pass: The Road to Survival, The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams, Hawaii Five-O, Charlie's Angels, Eight Is Enough, Days of Our Lives, Dallas, Matt Houston, Airwolf, The Red Fury, Crazy Like a Fox, and Knight Rider.
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Diane McBain appeared in Jake and the Fatman, Puppet Master 5, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman, Invisible Mom II, The Young and the Restless, The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy, Besotted, and Strong Medicine.
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Diane McBain was in a TV movie, Cab to Canada, which she said "was enough to make me never want to act again".
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In early 1968 Diane McBain visited US troops in Vietnam on a Johnny Grant tour with fellow actress Melody Patterson.
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Diane McBain was married to Rodney Burke, whom she met at a Buddhist camp, from 1972 until their 1974 divorce.
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Diane McBain died from liver cancer on the morning of December 21,2022, at the Motion Picture Country Home in Los Angeles, California, where she had lived for a number of years.