Dianne Foster
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Dianne Foster in The Last Hurrah (1958)
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Dianne Laruska October 31, 1928 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 (born October 31, 1928) is a Canadian actress of Ukrainian descent.
She began her career at the age of 13 in a stage adaptation of James Barrie's What Every Woman Knows. In London in 1951, she appeared on stage in Agatha Christie's The Hollow and Orson Welles's Othello.
Foster was born Dianne Laruska in Edmondton, Alberta, Canada.
At 14 she began a radio career, 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.
She appeared on Radio Luxembourg in a broadcast of The Lives of Harry Lime.
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.
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.
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