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Diana Lynn
Los Angeles, California, USA
She was a child prodigy, pianist, at age 10, and her first movie role was one of the children in, "They Shall Have Music" (1939). You see her playing the piano. She made another…
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She was a child prodigy, pianist, at age 10, and her first movie role was one of the children in, "They Shall Have Music" (1939). You see her playing the piano. She made another movie using her 'real name' - Dolly in, "There's Magic in Music" (1941). She signed a long term contract with Paramount in 1942, and had her named changed to Diana Lynn. She had good roles in, "The Major, and the Minor" (1942); "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek", and, "Our Hearts Were Young, and Gay" - both in 1944. She had fewer roles as she matured; she did do, "Bedtime for Bonzo" (1951), but had a nice career on TV shows. She died of a stroke when she was making a comeback in film. Her marriages were from 1948 to 1954 to architect John C. Lindsay; no children; then in December 6,1956, she married Mortimer C.Hall, president of L.A. radio station, KLAC. His mother was Dorothy Schiff, publisher then of the 'New York Post'. She had four children with him between 1958, and 1964. They moved to New York City so he could assume a post on his mother's paper. She passed away on December 18, 1971 of a stroke / brain hemorrhage in Los Angeles.
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1970
Company of Killers
Movie Edwina DeSalles
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1963
Burke's Law
TV show Marian Van Martin
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1962
The Virginian
TV show Peggy Shannon
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1961
The Investigators
TV show Manon Cuchet
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1961
Bus Stop
TV show
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1960
Checkmate
TV show Jodi Lynn
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1960
The Chevy Mystery Show
TV show Charlotte Bell Wheeler
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1959
Adventures in Paradise
TV show Nicole Hazen
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1959
A Marriage of Strangers
Movie Louise Benedict Shoemaker
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1957
A Sound of Different Drummers
Movie Susan Ward
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1957
DuPont Show of the Month
TV show Ellen Curtis
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1957
The Star Wagon
Movie Martha Minch
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1956
Playhouse 90
TV show Catherine Hume
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1956
Forbidden Area
Movie Catherine Hume
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1955
Matinee Theater
TV show
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1955
You're Never Too Young
Movie Nancy Collins
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1955
The Kentuckian
Movie Susie Spann
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1955
An Annapolis Story
Movie Peggy Lord
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1955
The Thief
Movie Marie-Louise Voyson
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1954
Track of the Cat
Movie Gwen Williams
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1954
Climax!
TV show
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1953
The United States Steel Hour
TV show Marie-Louise Voyson
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1953
Letter to Loretta
TV show Sylvia Adler
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1953
Plunder of the Sun
Movie Julie Barnes
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1953
General Electric Theater
TV show
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1953
Meet Me at the Fair
Movie Zerelda Wing
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1951
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV show
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1951
The People Against O'Hara
Movie Virginia 'Ginny' Curtayne
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1951
Bedtime for Bonzo
Movie Jane
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1950
Lux Video Theatre
TV show Ruth Deeves
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1950
Peggy
Movie Peggy Brookfield
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1950
My Friend Irma Goes West
Movie Jane Stacy
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1950
Rogues of Sherwood Forest
Movie Lady Marianne de Beaudray
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1950
Your Show of Shows
TV show
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1950
Paid in Full
Movie Nancy Langley
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1950
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV show
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1950
Edgar Bergen with Charlie McCarthy
Movie Self
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1949
My Friend Irma
Movie Jane Stacy
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1948
Every Girl Should Be Married
Movie Julie Hudson
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1948
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
Movie Perry Dunklin
