Diane Baker
What happened to Diane Baker? Any rumors or gossip?
She worked alongside the likes of Gregory Peck (Mirage), Sean Connery (Hitchcock's Marine), Paul Newman (The Prize), and Joan Crawford (The Best of Everything and Strait Jacket), but after 1970 her film career fizzled out and she turned to television work.
After she was cast in The Silence of the Lambs she saw a bit of a career resurgence in The Joy Luck Club, The Net, The Cable Guy, Courage Under Fire, Murder at 1600, and several episodes of House.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 36 | July 8, 2025 11:59 PM
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Oh, and Senator, just one more thing.... love your suit.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 1 | July 7, 2025 11:06 PM
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Did she always play weak characters? For a while I confused her with that actress whose nurse character gets her leg amputated in that doctor movie with Ben Gazarra.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | July 7, 2025 11:12 PM
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Lesbian, that’s all I know.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | July 7, 2025 11:17 PM
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She spent A LOT of time with a Robert Osborne.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 7, 2025 11:35 PM
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Take this THING back to Baltimore!
by Anonymous | reply 5 | July 7, 2025 11:38 PM
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She turned her hand to producing for a while.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | July 7, 2025 11:43 PM
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I believe she tragically lost her life fighting an oil rig fire in the Gulf of Mexico
by Anonymous | reply 7 | July 7, 2025 11:48 PM
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Toughened your nipples, didn’t it? 😷
by Anonymous | reply 9 | July 7, 2025 11:55 PM
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She was in Hitchcock's Marine with Sean Connery and Tippi Hedren
by Anonymous | reply 11 | July 8, 2025 12:40 AM
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She wasn’t originally hired to do STRAITJACKET with Joan Crawford.
The role of the daughter was first going to be played by a very sexy actress, Anne Helm. But after just a day or so’s filming Crawford demanded Helm be replaced - and requested Baker (who she remembered from THE BEST OF EVERYTHING.)
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 13 | July 8, 2025 12:44 AM
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She was also in The Cable Guy, where she played Jim Carrey's mother. George Segal was Carrey's father.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | July 8, 2025 1:03 AM
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And she was Margot Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank
by Anonymous | reply 16 | July 8, 2025 1:10 AM
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Anne Helm admitted, decades after the fact, that she had an affair with peak Elvis.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 17 | July 8, 2025 1:17 AM
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One of the very first threads I started (2014).
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 18 | July 8, 2025 1:32 AM
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When her friend Robert Osborne was alive she was pretty active with TCM.
Not sure if she is still there but like 7 years ago or so she was the head of the acting department at an MFA Acting program in San Francisco.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | July 8, 2025 1:35 AM
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R18, what was the blind item? The original link is dead.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | July 8, 2025 1:37 AM
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r20 Several of the posts on the thread quote extensively from the original article.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | July 8, 2025 1:50 AM
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Diane Baker was pretty and mousy at the same time, you can understand why Joan wanted her over Anne Helm.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | July 8, 2025 1:55 AM
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Anne Berlin had 6 fingers....
by Anonymous | reply 23 | July 8, 2025 1:58 AM
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Why do you keep calling Marnie “Marine?!”
by Anonymous | reply 25 | July 8, 2025 2:12 AM
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Alfred Hitchcock originally wanted Suzanne Pleshette to play Lil in MARNIE. She said she would only accept leading roles, and the movie wasn't called LIL.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | July 8, 2025 4:20 AM
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I enjoy her quirky actress daughter Blanche Baker. Her sedative meltdown in Sixteen Candles is terrific.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | July 8, 2025 4:23 AM
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R3 = Helen Hunt, connoisseur of cock.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | July 8, 2025 4:33 AM
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One of the weirdest TV Guide articles I ever read was in the 1970s, when a reporter wrote that he/she was assigned to write a portrait of Diane Baker, but she was so incredibly boring that there was nothing worth mentioning about her.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | July 8, 2025 5:11 AM
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r28 Blanche Baker's mother is Carroll Baker not Diane Baker.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | July 8, 2025 5:34 AM
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Joan Crawford was fucking sexy John Anthony Hays on the set of Strait Jacket
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 33 | July 8, 2025 5:48 PM
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Joan Crawford was also fucking sexy Ty Hardin on the set of Berserk!
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 34 | July 8, 2025 5:51 PM
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And finally, Joan Crawford was fucking hunky John Hamill in Trog.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 35 | July 8, 2025 5:55 PM
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Viagra was invented back then ? ?
by Anonymous | reply 36 | July 8, 2025 11:59 PM
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