Dianne Foster Net Worth

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Dianne Foster net worth is
$1.5 Million

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Dianne Foster (born October 31, 1928) is a Canadian actress of Ukrainian descent who began her career at the age of thirteen in a stage adaptation of James Barrie's What Every Woman Knows. At fourteen 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. For a holiday in 1951 she traveled to London, England, where she and Andrwe Allen married. In London that same year she appeared onstage in Agatha Christie's The Hollow and Orson Welles's Othello. In March 1952 her husband returned to Canada while she stayed in London to honour her five-year contract with a British film company.In 1953, she co-starred alongside Charlton Heston and Lizabeth Scott in the middling Bad for Each Other. In 1954 she was signed by Columbia Pictures and relocated to Hollywood, where her first appearance proper that year was with Mickey Rooney in the well-received Drive a Crooked Road.Foster's marriage to Allen effectively was over before she left for the United States. In 1954, she married Joel A. Murcott, a Hollywood radio-television scriptwriter, during location filming for The Kentuckian. At thirty-nine, Murcott was fourteen years her senior and had been married previously.In 1955, Foster appeared on the cover of Picturegoer, and co-starred in two big films, Glenn Ford's The Violent Men and Burt Lancaster's The Kentuckian.On February 14, 1956, she gave birth to twins: a son, Jason, and a daughter, Jodi. Although her film career continued, it was not on the same upward trajectory as before. 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. That same year she also filed for divorce from Murcott, claiming he struck her in the face and kicked her in the stomach. She asked for custody and $1 in token alimony. The couple reconciled, but it proved to be temporary as they separated twice more before finally divorcing in 1959, with Foster being awarded $250 a month in child support. It was the third time she had filed for divorce, and she gave her age as 24, although she was in fact 31.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. It featured an all-star cast that included Spencer Tracy, Pat O'Brien, and Basil Rathbone, and was nominated for two BAFTA awards.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. Her fellow guest stars were Barton MacLane and Denver Pyle. 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 Riverbo 
Net Worth$1.5 Million
Date Of BirthOctober 31, 1928
Place Of BirthEdmonton, Alberta, Canada
OccupationActress; painter, musician
ProfessionActress
SpouseDr. Harold Rowe DDS child
NicknamesDianne Foster, Foster, Dianne
Star SignScorpio
#Quote
1Acting in the theater teaches you a great work ethic. When you do eight performances a week, you develop a discipline and a dedication to go out there and perform in front of an audience over and over again. Along the way you try to find a little extra magic to make it different every night. Once you've had experience working in the theater, it helps serve you when you work in movies . . . I always loved the kind of control an actor has in their performance on stage. In film, the control is really in the hands of the director and editor.
2I always preferred a director who allowed me to contribute something of my own. Some directors don't want any contribution. They prefer to tell you exactly what to do and where to move.
3[2009 interview in "Films of the Golden Age" magazine] The opportunity to communicate with a live audience every time I performed on stage--I really miss that. However, what I found when working in the movies was that the people behind the camera would applaud a good scene. So in that sense, I had a live audience there as well and that was always a thrill for me. I loved acting and all the wonderful people that I had the opportunity to work with.
#Fact
1She was supposed to work with Alan Ladd in a film while she was in England in the early 1950s. She did not agree, however, to the four-year option in the contract because she wanted the freedom of working in theater and already had a binding film contract with Tempean Films. The tabloids papers unkindly suggested that she "walked out" on Ladd. Years later, after coming to America, she was offered the lead in The Deep Six (1958) that was to star Ladd. She thought Ladd would never agree to her casting after the earlier incident. He did, surprisingly, and told her that he admired and respected what she did back then.
2She married first husband Andrew Allan (1907-1974), Scots-born national head of CBC Radio Drama, in 1951 but the marriage was over by the time she made her move to America in 1953. He stayed in England. Son and daughter twins Jason and Jodi were born to her during this five-year second marriage to radio/TV writer Joel Murcott in America. A third marriage in 1961 to a dentist, Dr. Harold Rowe, produced her third child, Dustin Louis. The marriage lasted happily until his death in 1994.
3She said she had a wonderful working relationship with Mickey Rooney while filming Drive a Crooked Road (1954). He later recommended her to Burt Lancaster when he started directing The Kentuckian (1955) and she won the role.
4Is an accomplished pianist.
5She skipped two grades in elementary school. She was 13 when she started high school.
6Was asked to play the part of Fred MacMurray's new wife on the TV series My Three Sons (1960). She turned the part down in order to stay at home with her three children. The part was eventually played by Beverly Garland.
7Talented and accomplished painter/artist.
8She has five grandchildren: One of them, Jordan Matheson Rowe, was named after the writer Richard Matheson, who lived next door to her when she resided in Hidden Hills, CA. As a result, her son Jason grew very fond of the entire Matheson family.
9She holds dual citizenship: Canadian & American.
10She is of Ukranian descent.
11Fraternal twins: a son Jason and a daughter Jodi (b. 14 February 1956). Jason was named after Jason Robards and Jodi was a combination of their names: Joel & Dianne.

Actress

TitleYearStatusCharacter
The Wild Wild West1966TV SeriesAmanda Vautrain
Green Acres1966TV SeriesAmy Collins
The Big Valley1966TV SeriesTherese Marvin
Perry Mason1962-1965TV SeriesLinda Blakely / Elaine Meacham / Lori Richards / ...
Honey West1965TV SeriesMaggie Lynch
Slattery's People1965TV SeriesClaudia Strickland
Ben Casey1963-1965TV SeriesKaren Fischer / Helen Kulik
My Three Sons1964-1965TV SeriesTrudy Bennett / Marta Robbins
The Fugitive1965TV SeriesJanice Cummings
The Rogues1965TV SeriesAlice Singer
Petticoat Junction1964TV SeriesPhyllis Marsh
Breaking Point1964TV SeriesDeborah Phillips
Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?1963Mona Kaufman
Kraft Mystery Theater1962-1963TV SeriesMarge
77 Sunset Strip1960-1963TV SeriesConnie Beck / Marta Wentworth
Going My Way1963TV SeriesEdith Sedgewick
The Gallant Men1963TV SeriesThe Contessa
Hawaiian Eye1960-1963TV SeriesNorma Marriott / Lola Richmond
The Lloyd Bridges Show1962TV SeriesVirginia Matron
The Eleventh Hour1962TV SeriesFay Tyner
Bus Stop1961-1962TV SeriesBarbara Cullum / Sally Wagner
Gunsmoke1962TV SeriesCornelia Conrad
The Detectives1962TV SeriesEleanor Curran
Tales of Wells Fargo1960-1962TV SeriesElla Congreve / Elaine
Outlaws1960-1961TV SeriesLainie McDonough / Ann Dineen
Checkmate1961TV SeriesPhyllis Wood / Edna Margate
King of Diamonds1961TV SeriesSue Bennett
King of the Roaring 20's: The Story of Arnold Rothstein1961Carolyn Green Rothstein
Route 661961TV SeriesAnita Delgado
Laramie1961TV SeriesEllie Jacobs
Have Gun - Will Travel1961TV SeriesMarion Sutter
The Roaring 20's1960TV SeriesZena Lawrence
Peter Gunn1960TV SeriesKatherine Hartley
The Deputy1960TV SeriesLaurie Harris
Bonanza1960TV SeriesJoyce Edwards
Thriller1960TV SeriesJudy Patterson
Bourbon Street Beat1960TV SeriesMarcia Sterling
Wagon Train1960TV SeriesLeslie Ivers
Shotgun Slade1960TV SeriesJenny Dupree
General Electric Theater1960TV SeriesAntoinette 'Tony' Warren
Overland Trail1960TV SeriesHelen Jackson
Riverboat1960TV SeriesMarian Templeton
Markham1959TV SeriesFriday Bozman
The Last Hurrah1958Maeve Caulfield
Gideon of Scotland Yard1958Joanna Delafield
The Deep Six1958Susan Cahill
The Brothers Rico1957Alice Rico
Night Passage1957Charlotte Drew ( Charlie )
Monkey on My Back1957Cathy Holland
Chevron Hall of Stars1956TV Series
The Ford Television Theatre1956TV SeriesRhia Powell
Celebrity Playhouse1956TV Series
The Kentuckian1955Hannah Bolen
The Violent Men1955Judith Wilkison
Three's Company1954Elsa (segment "Take a Number' story)
Lux Video Theatre1954TV SeriesLux Video Theatre Guest
The Bamboo Prison1954Tanya Clayton
Uncle Willie's Bicycle Shop1954Virginia van Stuyden
Three Hours to Kill1954Chris Palmer
Drive a Crooked Road1954Barbara Mathews
Bad for Each Other1953Joan Lasher
The Steel Key1953Sylvia Newman
Rheingold Theatre1953TV SeriesElsa
Four Star Playhouse1952TV SeriesLaura
The Big Frame1952Dianne Wrigley
The Quiet Woman1951Helen

Self

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Here's Hollywood1962TV SeriesHerself - Guest
The Ed Sullivan Show1955TV SeriesHerself

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