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With her luxurious, sun-streaked, long mane of curly blond hair, voluptuous and beautiful Dyan Cannon is an actress who is hard to miss. She has been in films and occasionally on television since making her debut opposite Art Carney in The Ding-a-Ling Girl, a presentation on the television series Playhouse 90. Born Samille Diane Friesen in Tacoma, WA, Cannon got her start as a showroom model in L.A. following two years of study in anthropology at the University of Washington. Thanks to the help of writer/producer Jerry Wald, who came up with her stage name (which was originally Diane Cannon), she landed a contract at MGM and made her feature film debut playing Wiggles, a troubled high school student in This Rebel Breed (1960). She then appeared in The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960). After a couple appearances on Broadway and some work on television, Cannon met and fell in love with Cary Grant, who was 38 years her senior. While involved with him, she placed her acting career on hold. The two married in 1965 and she bore him a daughter. Three years later, Grant and Cannon went through a bitter public divorce. In 1969, Cannon returned to films in the then-controversial sex comedy Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice and won the Best Supporting Actress award from the New York Film Critics. Her role also won her an Oscar nomination. The 1970s were her most active period as an actress and Cannon appeared frequently in films. In 1978, she earned another Best Supporting Actress nomination for playing a conniving, adulterous wife in Heaven Can Wait. By the early '80s, Cannon sharply curtailed her feature-film career, but did appear in a few television movies and miniseries. In 1976, Cannon wrote, produced, directed, and even helped edit a 42-minute film sponsored by the American Film Institute. Titled Number One, Cannon designed it to teach children about sexuality and their bodies. It earned an Oscar nomination for best live-action short. Cannon has since directed two more films, including The End of Innocence, which is based on her autobiography. Cannon returned to acting on a limited basis in the 1990s and continued to appear on television in such outings as Arnold Schwarzenegger's Christmas in Connecticut (1992) and features such as Out to Sea (1997). ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide less

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My Mother the Spy (2000)
Tags: Spy Film Glamorized Spy Film
Length: 95min
While vacationing in the Azores, attractive young book editor Alison Shaeffer (Jayne Brook) discovers to her dismay that her "absentee" mother Gloria (Dyan Cannon) is a longtime CIA agent. Alison doesn't quite swallow this revelation until both she...
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Diamond Girl (1998)
Tags: Romantic Drama Romance
Length: 95min
A Plain Jane paralegal is transformed into an irresistible beauty, only to realize that her ravishing new appearance is as much a blessing as it is a curse when two brothers begin competing for her affections. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
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The Sender (1997)
Tags: Supernatural Thriller Science Fiction Sci-Fi Action
Length: 98min
The survivors of an unusual aviation tragedy race to save the granddaughter of their fallen friend when the young girl develops psychic powers and gets targeted by the government. The year was 1965; a group of American fighter pilots were flying over...
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Boynton Beach Club (2005)
Cast: Susan Seidelman
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Drama
Length: 105min
A handful of men and women "of a certain age" pick up the pieces of their lives and look for new love after the loss of their mates in this comedy drama from writer-director Susan Seidelman. Jack (Len Cariou) married his high school sweetheart when...
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That Darn Cat (1996)
Cast: Christina Ricci
Tags: Family-Oriented Comedy Family Comedy Animal Picture
Length: 89min
The original Disney feature film, That Darn Cat, was a feel-good hit in 1965, thanks largely to stars such as Hayley Mills, Roddy McDowall, and William Demarest. This 1996 remake also closely follows the novel -Undercover Cat by Mildred Gordon and...
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The Pickle (1993)
Cast: Shelley Winters Danny Aiello Paul Mazursky Ally Sheedy
Tags: Showbiz Comedy Comedy
Length: 103min
Paul Mazursky directed this comedy, which blends a broad satire of the film industry with a thoughtful tale of a middle-aged man looking back on his life's failures. Harry Stone (Danny Aiello) is a film director who desperately needs a hit -- so...
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Based on an Untrue Story (1993)
Cast: Dyan Cannon
Tags: Parody/Spoof Comedy
Length: 90min
Attempting to take a well-deserved sharp poke at those based-on-a-true-story television movies that have usurped the old B-movies that once fed the public's addiction for exploitation fare, this satire chronicles the tragedy of a perfume magnate whose...
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Out To Sea (1997)
Cast: Jack Lemmon Walter Matthau Gloria de Haven
Tags: Romantic Comedy Buddy Film Comedy
Length: 109min
A pair of grumpy old men hit the high seas in this comedy. Small-time con man Charlie (Walter Matthau) fast-talks his considerably more straight-laced friend Herb (Jack Lemmon) into joining him for a luxury cruise on an ocean liner headed to the...
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Christmas in Connecticut (1992)
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger Kris Kristofferson Tony Curtis
Tags: Farce Comedy Family-Oriented Comedy
Length: 93min
Made for cable television, a TV-show homemaker (Dyan Cannon) invites a local hero (Kris Kristofferson) over for a live-broadcast Christmas dinner, but her lack of cooking skills could cause a problem. The film was directed by Arnold Schwarzenegger. ~...
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Jailbirds (1991)
Tags: Comedy Crime
Length: 96min
The made-for-TV Jailbirds is a distaff comedy variation on The Defiant Ones. Phylicia Rashad plays an important LA business executive, while Dyan Cannon portrays a trailer-trash babe from Louisiana. Both Rashad and Cannon are thrown into a dank...
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