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4 unusual facts about Diane Baker


City Pier A

The pier was briefly featured in the 1965 thriller Mirage with Gregory Peck and Diane Baker.

Diane Baker

Alfred Hitchcock cast her in his film Marnie (1964) as Lil Mainwaring, the sister-in-law of Mark Rutland (Sean Connery).

Finally out of her contract with Fox after starring in 1960 in the fourth screen version of Grace Miller White's novel Tess of the Storm Country, Baker appeared in The 300 Spartans (1962) and Stolen Hours, a 1963 remake of Dark Victory, and, the same year, opposite Paul Newman and Elke Sommer in The Prize.

Since August 2004, Baker has been the director of the Motion Pictures and Television major at Academy of Art University in San Francisco.


Starhawk

With Anne Hill and Diane Baker: Circle Round: Raising Children in the Goddess Tradition (1998)

The Best of Everything

In 1959, the novel was adapted into a film of the same name released by Twentieth Century Fox directed by Jean Negulesco and starring Diane Baker, Hope Lange, Stephen Boyd, Suzy Parker, Robert Evans, Brian Aherne and Joan Crawford.


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