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Diana Love Dill (born January 22, 1923) is a Bermudian actress, active in the U.S., who has also appeared professionally under the names Diana Douglas and Diana Douglas Darrid.
Dill was born in Bermuda, the daughter of Ruth Rapalje (née Neilson) and Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Melville Dill (also the name of her great-grand-father, a mariner), who was a former Attorney General of Bermuda, and former Commanding Officer of the Bermuda Militia Artillery. Hers is a prominent Bermudian family, present on the island since the very early seventeenth century. Her sister, Ruth Dill, was married to... MORE
Diana Love Dill (born January 22, 1923) is a Bermudian actress, active in the U.S., who has also appeared professionally under the names Diana Douglas and Diana Douglas Darrid.
Dill was born in Bermuda, the daughter of Ruth Rapalje (née Neilson) and Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Melville Dill (also the name of her great-grand-father, a mariner), who was a former Attorney General of Bermuda, and former Commanding Officer of the Bermuda Militia Artillery. Hers is a prominent Bermudian family, present on the island since the very early seventeenth century. Her sister, Ruth Dill, was married to John Seward Johnson II, heir to the Johnson & Johnson fortune. Dill was raised in the Church of England. In 2002, at age 79, Ms. Dill married Donald Webster, who once served as Treasury chief of staff under President Richard Nixon.
She was once married to Kirk Douglas, with whom she had studied acting before the Second World War. During the War, Douglas was serving in the U.S. Navy when he saw the May 3, 1943, issue of Life magazine, which featured a photograph of Dill on the cover. He showed the cover to his ship-mates and said that he would marry her. The two were married on November 2, 1943. They LESS
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