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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.

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by Anonymousreply 36July 8, 2025 11:59 PM

Oh, and Senator, just one more thing.... love your suit.

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by Anonymousreply 1July 7, 2025 11:06 PM

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 Anonymousreply 2July 7, 2025 11:12 PM

Lesbian, that’s all I know.

by Anonymousreply 3July 7, 2025 11:17 PM

She spent A LOT of time with a Robert Osborne.

by Anonymousreply 4July 7, 2025 11:35 PM

Take this THING back to Baltimore!

by Anonymousreply 5July 7, 2025 11:38 PM

She turned her hand to producing for a while.

by Anonymousreply 6July 7, 2025 11:43 PM

I believe she tragically lost her life fighting an oil rig fire in the Gulf of Mexico

by Anonymousreply 7July 7, 2025 11:48 PM

Gulf of AMERICA

by Anonymousreply 8July 7, 2025 11:48 PM

Toughened your nipples, didn’t it? 😷

by Anonymousreply 9July 7, 2025 11:55 PM

^You son of a BITCH!

by Anonymousreply 10July 7, 2025 11:56 PM

She was in Hitchcock's Marine with Sean Connery and Tippi Hedren

by Anonymousreply 11July 8, 2025 12:40 AM

Marine layer.

by Anonymousreply 12July 8, 2025 12:43 AM

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.)

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by Anonymousreply 13July 8, 2025 12:44 AM
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by Anonymousreply 14July 8, 2025 12:48 AM

She was also in The Cable Guy, where she played Jim Carrey's mother. George Segal was Carrey's father.

by Anonymousreply 15July 8, 2025 1:03 AM

And she was Margot Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank

by Anonymousreply 16July 8, 2025 1:10 AM

Anne Helm admitted, decades after the fact, that she had an affair with peak Elvis.

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by Anonymousreply 17July 8, 2025 1:17 AM

One of the very first threads I started (2014).

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by Anonymousreply 18July 8, 2025 1:32 AM

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 Anonymousreply 19July 8, 2025 1:35 AM

R18, what was the blind item? The original link is dead.

by Anonymousreply 20July 8, 2025 1:37 AM

r20 Several of the posts on the thread quote extensively from the original article.

by Anonymousreply 21July 8, 2025 1:50 AM

Diane Baker was pretty and mousy at the same time, you can understand why Joan wanted her over Anne Helm.

by Anonymousreply 22July 8, 2025 1:55 AM

Anne Berlin had 6 fingers....

by Anonymousreply 23July 8, 2025 1:58 AM

BODY ODOR & FARTS

by Anonymousreply 24July 8, 2025 2:03 AM

Why do you keep calling Marnie “Marine?!”

by Anonymousreply 25July 8, 2025 2:12 AM

She IS Diane Baker!

by Anonymousreply 26July 8, 2025 2:52 AM

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 Anonymousreply 27July 8, 2025 4:20 AM

I enjoy her quirky actress daughter Blanche Baker. Her sedative meltdown in Sixteen Candles is terrific.

by Anonymousreply 28July 8, 2025 4:23 AM

I always liked her

by Anonymousreply 29July 8, 2025 4:27 AM

R3 = Helen Hunt, connoisseur of cock.

by Anonymousreply 30July 8, 2025 4:33 AM

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 Anonymousreply 31July 8, 2025 5:11 AM

r28 Blanche Baker's mother is Carroll Baker not Diane Baker.

by Anonymousreply 32July 8, 2025 5:34 AM

Joan Crawford was fucking sexy John Anthony Hays on the set of Strait Jacket

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by Anonymousreply 33July 8, 2025 5:48 PM

Joan Crawford was also fucking sexy Ty Hardin on the set of Berserk!

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by Anonymousreply 34July 8, 2025 5:51 PM

And finally, Joan Crawford was fucking hunky John Hamill in Trog.

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by Anonymousreply 35July 8, 2025 5:55 PM

Viagra was invented back then ? ?

by Anonymousreply 36July 8, 2025 11:59 PM
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