Dianne Foster, the Glossary
Dianne Foster (born Olga Helen Laruska; October 31, 1928 – July 27, 2019) was a Canadian actress of Ukrainian descent.[1]
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86 relations: Agatha Christie, Alan Ladd, Alberta, Alimony, AllMovie, American Broadcasting Company, Ancestry.com, Andrew Allan (radio executive), Associated Press, Bad for Each Other, Barney Ross, Basil Rathbone, Bonanza, Breaking Point (1963 TV series), British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Burt Lancaster, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CBS, Charlton Heston, Columbia Pictures, Dean Martin, Dentist, Doug McClure, Drive a Crooked Road, Edmonton, Evening Independent, Gene Kelly, Gideon's Day (film), Glenn Ford, Going My Way (TV series), Green Acres, Have Gun – Will Travel, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Honey West (TV series), Isn't Life Wonderful!, J. M. Barrie, Jack Hawkins, James Stewart, Lizabeth Scott, London, Los Angeles, Medical drama, Mickey Rooney, Monkey on My Back (film), My Three Sons, NBC, Night Passage (film), Orson Welles, Othello, Overland Trail (TV series), ... Expand index (36 more) »
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Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.
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Alan Ladd
Alan Walbridge Ladd (September 3, 1913 – January 29, 1964) was an American actor and film producer.
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Alberta
Alberta is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.
Alimony
Alimony, also called aliment (Scotland), maintenance (England, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Wales, Canada, New Zealand), spousal support (U.S., Canada) and spouse maintenance (Australia), is a legal obligation on a person to provide financial support to their spouse before or after marital separation or divorce.
AllMovie
AllMovie (previously All Movie Guide) is an online database with information about films, television programs, television series, and screen actors.
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American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division of the Walt Disney Company.
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Ancestry.com
Ancestry.com LLC is an American genealogy company based in Lehi, Utah.
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Andrew Allan (radio executive)
Andrew Edward Fairbairn Allan (1907–1974), born in Arbroath, Scotland, was the national head of CBC Radio Drama from 1943 to 1955.
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Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.
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Bad for Each Other
Bad for Each Other is a 1953 American drama film noir directed by Irving Rapper and starring Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott and Dianne Foster.
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Barney Ross
Barney Ross (born Dov-Ber "Beryl" David Rosofsky; December 23, 1909 – January 17, 1967) was an American professional boxer.
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Basil Rathbone
Philip St.
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Bonanza
Bonanza is an American Western television series that ran on NBC from September 12, 1959, to January 16, 1973.
Breaking Point (1963 TV series)
Breaking Point is an American medical drama that aired on ABC from September 16, 1963, to April 27, 1964, with reruns continuing until September 7, 1964.
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British Academy of Film and Television Arts
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is an independent trade association and charity that supports, develops, and promotes the arts of film, television and video games in the United Kingdom.
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Burt Lancaster
Burton Stephen Lancaster (November 2, 1913 – October 20, 1994) was an American actor and film producer.
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is the Canadian public broadcaster for both radio and television.
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CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global and is one of the company's three flagship subsidiaries, along with namesake Paramount Pictures and MTV.
Charlton Heston
Charlton Heston (born John Charles Carter; October 4, 1923 – April 5, 2008) was an American actor and political activist.
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Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., commonly known as Columbia Pictures or simply Columbia, is an American film production and distribution company that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures, which is one of the Big Five studios and a subsidiary of the multinational conglomerate Sony Group Corporation.
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Dean Martin
Dean Martin (born Dino Paul Crocetti; June 7, 1917 – December 25, 1995) was an American singer, actor and comedian.
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Dentist
A dentist, also known as a dental surgeon, is a health care professional who specializes in dentistry, the branch of medicine focused on the teeth, gums, and mouth.
Doug McClure
Douglas Osborne McClure (May 11, 1935 – February 5, 1995) was an American actor whose career in film and television extended from the 1950s to the 1990s.
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Drive a Crooked Road
Drive a Crooked Road is a 1954 American crime film noir directed by Richard Quine and starring Mickey Rooney and Dianne Foster.
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Edmonton
Edmonton is the capital city of the Canadian province of Alberta.
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Evening Independent
The Evening Independent was St. Petersburg, Florida's first daily newspaper.
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Gene Kelly
Eugene Curran Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996) was an American dancer, actor, singer, director and choreographer.
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Gideon's Day (film)
Gideon's Day (U.S. title: Gideon of Scotland Yard) is a 1958 police procedural crime film directed by John Ford and starring Jack Hawkins, Dianne Foster and Cyril Cusack.
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Glenn Ford
Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford (May 1, 1916 – August 30, 2006), known as Glenn Ford, was a Canadian-American actor.
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Going My Way (TV series)
Going My Way is an American comedy-drama series starring dancer and actor Gene Kelly.
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Green Acres
Green Acres is an American television absurdist sitcom starring Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor as a couple who move from New York City to a country farm.
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Have Gun – Will Travel
Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that was produced and originally broadcast by CBS on both television and radio from 1957 through 1963.
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Hollywood, Los Angeles
Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles County, California, mostly within the city of Los Angeles.
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Honey West (TV series)
Honey West is a ground-breaking American crime drama television series that aired on ABC from September 17, 1965, to April 8, 1966, as an entry in the 1965–1966 television season.
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Isn't Life Wonderful!
Isn't Life Wonderful! is a 1953 British technicolor period comedy film directed by Harold French and starring Cecil Parker, Eileen Herlie and Donald Wolfit.
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J. M. Barrie
Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, (9 May 1860 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan.
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Jack Hawkins
John Edward Hawkins, CBE (14 September 1910 – 18 July 1973) was an English actor who worked on stage and in film from the 1930s until the 1970s.
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James Stewart
James Maitland Stewart (May 20, 1908 – July 2, 1997) was an American actor.
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Lizabeth Scott
Lizabeth Virginia Scott (born Emma Matzo; September 29, 1922 – January 31, 2015) was an American actress, singer and model for the Walter Thornton Model Agency, known for her "smoky voice" and being "the most beautiful face of film noir during the 1940s and 1950s".
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London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
Los Angeles
Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.
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Medical drama
A medical drama is a television movie or film in which events center upon a hospital, clinic, physician's office, an ambulance staff, or any medical environment.
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Mickey Rooney
Mickey Rooney (born Joseph Yule Jr.; other pseudonym Mickey Maguire; September 23, 1920 – April 6, 2014) was an American actor.
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Monkey on My Back (film)
Monkey on My Back is a 1957 American biographical film directed by Andre de Toth.
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My Three Sons
My Three Sons is an American television sitcom that aired from September 29, 1960, to April 13, 1972.
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NBC
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.
Night Passage (film)
Night Passage is a 1957 American Western film directed by James Neilson and starring James Stewart and Audie Murphy.
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Orson Welles
George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American director, actor, writer, producer, and magician who is remembered for his innovative work in film, radio, and theatre.
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Othello
Othello (full title: The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice) is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare, around 1603.
Overland Trail (TV series)
Overland Trail is an American Western television series starring William Bendix and Doug McClure which aired on NBC from February 7 to June 6, 1960.
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Owensboro, Kentucky
Owensboro is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Daviess County, Kentucky, United States.
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Pat O'Brien (actor)
William Joseph Patrick O'Brien (Pádraig Ó Briain; November 11, 1899 – October 15, 1983) was an American film actor with more than 100 screen credits.
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Perry Mason (1957 TV series)
Perry Mason is an American legal drama series originally broadcast on CBS television from September 21, 1957, to May 22, 1966.
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Petticoat Junction
Petticoat Junction is an American television sitcom that originally aired on CBS from September 1963 to April 1970.
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Picturegoer
Picturegoer was a fan magazine published in the United Kingdom between 1911 and 23 April 1960.
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Radio
Radio is the technology of communicating using radio waves.
Radio Luxembourg
Radio Luxembourg was a multilingual commercial broadcaster in Luxembourg.
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Richard Conte
Nicholas Peter Conte (March 24, 1910 – April 15, 1975), known professionally as Richard Conte, was an American actor.
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Riverboat (TV series)
Riverboat is an American Western television series starring Darren McGavin and Burt Reynolds, produced by Revue Studios, and broadcast on the NBC television network from 1959 to 1961.
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Sandusky Register
The Sandusky Register is a daily newspaper serving Sandusky, Ohio, as well as nearby Port Clinton and the Lake Erie Islands (collectively known regionally as Vacationland).
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Spencer Tracy
Spencer Bonaventure Tracy (April 5, 1900 – June 10, 1967) was an American actor.
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Tales of Wells Fargo
Tales of Wells Fargo is an American Western television series starring Dale Robertson in 201 episodes that aired from 1957 to 1962 on NBC.
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The Adventures of Harry Lime
The Adventures of Harry Lime (broadcast in the United States as The Lives of Harry Lime) is an old-time radio programme produced in the United Kingdom during the 1951 to 1952 season.
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The Bamboo Prison
The Bamboo Prison is a 1954 American Korean War–drama film directed by Lewis Seiler and starring Robert Francis, Brian Keith, Dianne Foster, and Jerome Courtland.
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The Big Valley
The Big Valley is an American Western television series that originally aired from September 15, 1965, to May 19, 1969 on ABC.
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The Brothers Rico
The Brothers Rico is a 1957 American crime film noir directed by Phil Karlson and starring Richard Conte, Dianne Foster and Kathryn Grant.
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The Deep Six
The Deep Six is a 1958 American World War II drama film directed by Rudolph Maté, loosely based on a novel of the same name by Martin Dibner.
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The Fugitive (1963 TV series)
The Fugitive is an American crime drama television series created by Roy Huggins and produced by QM Productions and United Artists Television.
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The Hollow (play)
The Hollow is a 1951 play by crime writer Agatha Christie.
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The Kentuckian (1955 film)
The Kentuckian is a 1955 American CinemaScope Western film directed by Burt Lancaster, who also stars.
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The Last Hurrah (1958 film)
The Last Hurrah is a 1958 American political satire film adaptation of the 1956 novel The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor.
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The Lloyd Bridges Show
The Lloyd Bridges Show is an American anthology drama series produced by Aaron Spelling, which aired on CBS from September 11, 1962, to May 28, 1963, starring and hosted by Lloyd Bridges.
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The Quiet Woman
The Quiet Woman is a 1951 British crime film directed by John Gilling and based on a story by Ruth Adam, about a criminal's wife who attempts to build a new life after her husband goes to prison, only to be menaced by him when he escapes.
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The Steel Key
The Steel Key is a 1953 British second feature thriller film directed by Robert S. Baker and starring Terence Morgan, Joan Rice and Raymond Lovell.
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The Violent Men
The Violent Men is a 1955 American CinemaScope Western film directed by Rudolph Maté and starring Glenn Ford, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Dianne Foster, Brian Keith, and May Wynn.
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The Wild Wild West
The Wild Wild West is an American Western, espionage, and science fiction television series that ran on the CBS television network for four seasons from September 17, 1965, to April 11, 1969.
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Toronto
Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario.
Turner Classic Movies
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie-oriented pay-TV network owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.
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United Press International
United Press International (UPI) is an American international news agency whose newswires, photo, news film, and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations for most of the 20th century until its eventual decline beginning in the early 1980s.
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Van Nuys
Van Nuys is a neighborhood in the central San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California.
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Wagon Train
Wagon Train is an American Western television series that aired for eight seasons, first on the NBC television network (1957–1962) and then on ABC (1962–1965).
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Western (genre)
The Western is a genre of fiction typically set in the American frontier (commonly referred to as the "Old West" or the "Wild West") between the California Gold Rush of 1849 and the closing of the frontier in 1890, and commonly associated with folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and Western Canada.
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What Every Woman Knows (play)
What Every Woman Knows is a four-act play written by J. M. Barrie.
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Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?
Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? is a 1963 American comedy film directed by Daniel Mann and starring Dean Martin, Elizabeth Montgomery, and Carol Burnett.
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William Bendix
William Bendix (January 14, 1906 – December 14, 1964) was an American film, radio, and television actor, known for his portrayals of rough, blue-collar characters.
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YouTube
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.
See also
Actresses from Edmonton
- Abby Hagyard
- Ann Pirvu
- Belinda Cornish
- Belinda Metz
- Beverly Adams
- Carmen Rasmusen
- Catherine Mary Stewart
- Chandra West
- Chelsey Reist
- Crystle Lightning
- Dianne Foster
- G.NA
- Gail Gilmore
- Genevieve Buechner
- Grace Glowicki
- Jessica Matten
- Jill Belland
- Jill Hennessy
- K.d. lang
- Lisa Ann Beley
- Lisa Gilroy
- Lisa Ryder
- Lucy DeCoutere
- Meghan Heffern
- Melody Anderson
- Michelle Beaudoin
- Michelle Molineux
- Mieko Ouchi
- Miranda Frigon
- Monique Ganderton
- Nancy Sivak
- Olivia Cheng (Canadian actress)
- Paula Devicq
- Rae Dawn Chong
- Rosemary Dunsmore
- Stephanie Anne Mills
- Tori Anderson
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianne_Foster
Also known as Dianne Laruska, Olga Helen Laruska.
, Owensboro, Kentucky, Pat O'Brien (actor), Perry Mason (1957 TV series), Petticoat Junction, Picturegoer, Radio, Radio Luxembourg, Richard Conte, Riverboat (TV series), Sandusky Register, Spencer Tracy, Tales of Wells Fargo, The Adventures of Harry Lime, The Bamboo Prison, The Big Valley, The Brothers Rico, The Deep Six, The Fugitive (1963 TV series), The Hollow (play), The Kentuckian (1955 film), The Last Hurrah (1958 film), The Lloyd Bridges Show, The Quiet Woman, The Steel Key, The Violent Men, The Wild Wild West, Toronto, Turner Classic Movies, United Press International, Van Nuys, Wagon Train, Western (genre), What Every Woman Knows (play), Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?, William Bendix, YouTube.