Diana Lynn
Diana Lynn ( October 7, 1926 in Los Angeles, California, † December 18, 1971 in New York City, New York) was an American actress and pianist.
Life
Diana Lynn was born in 1926 as Dolores Marie Loehr. She was a child prodigy, already with 12 years she played in the Jugendsynfonieorchester Los Angeles.Ihr film debut at 13 in the film music for life. She was also in this industry already in adolescence, a successful actress in films such as The Major and the Minor in 1942, the Billy Wilder film debut in America. This was followed by great films like sensation in Morgan 's Creek and Every girl should marry with Cary Grant.
As a young woman she continued to play successfully in movies. She played the lead role in Robin Hood's Retribution ( 1950), was to be seen on the side of Jerry Lewis at the Irma movies in the same years. In 1955 she was again to Lewis in the comedy side You're never too young to see. In the same year she starred in The Man from Western Kentucky, the directorial debut of Burt Lancaster.
After that, she was only sparodisch seen in television series, perhaps because in 1956 her second marriage to Mortimer Hall, son of the famous newspaper publisher Dorothy ship went down. She was also with Theather - busy and her work as a pianist - as on Broadway. Lynn and her husband led a happy marriage and had four children.
In 1970, she retired completely from public life. A little later, however, it was contacted to celebrate as the wife of Anthony Perkins in a movie comeback. She said to, but suffered before the start of filming a stroke, the consequences of which Diana Lynn died at the age of only 45 years, nine days later. It has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for film and one for television.