Also in 1960, she appeared in Have Gun Will Travel season four, episode 20. Foster also appeared in 1960 in three other NBC Westerns, Bonanza (as Joyce Edwards in 'The Mill'), Wagon Train (as Leslie Ivers in 'Trial for Murder: Part 2'), and Riverboat (as Marian Templeton in 'Path of the Eagle').

In 1960, Foster was the title guest star in the episode 'Lawyer in Petticoats' on the short-lived NBC Western series Overland Trail starring William Bendix and Doug McClure. In 1963, she made her last film appearance, in the Dean Martin vehicle Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?. It featured an all-star cast that included Spencer Tracy, Pat O'Brien, and Basil Rathbone, and was nominated for a BAFTA award. In 1958, she starred with Alan Ladd in The Deep Six, and that same year, she appeared alongside Jack Hawkins in Gideon of Scotland Yard before her last really big picture, The Last Hurrah.

In 1957, she co-starred in the biopic Monkey on My Back about boxer Barney Ross, Night Passage with James Stewart, and The Brothers Rico with Richard Conte. Īlthough her film career continued, it was not on the same upward trajectory as before. In 1955, Foster appeared on the cover of Picturegoer and co-starred in two films, Glenn Ford's The Violent Men and Burt Lancaster's The Kentuckian. 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. In 1953, she co-starred alongside Charlton Heston and Lizabeth Scott in the middling Bad for Each Other. In March 1952, her husband returned to Canada, while she stayed in London, to honor her five-year contract with a British film company. She became a Walter Thornton model and also taught modeling at the Thornton school. She appeared on Radio Luxembourg in a broadcast of The Lives of Harry Lime. Īt 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. In London in 1951, she appeared on stage in Agatha Christie's The Hollow and Orson Welles's Othello. She began her career at the age of 13 in a stage adaptation of James Barrie's What Every Woman Knows.

Early life įoster was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Dianne Foster (born Olga Helen Laruska Octo– July 27, 2019) was a Canadian actress of Ukrainian descent.

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