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Dianne Foster is a Canadian actress of Ukrainian descent who began her career at the age of 13 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. For a holiday in 1951 she traveled to London, England, where she met, and later married, Andrew Allen, drama supervisor for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. 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... MORE

Dianne Foster is a Canadian actress of Ukrainian descent who began her career at the age of 13 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. For a holiday in 1951 she traveled to London, England, where she met, and later married, Andrew Allen, drama supervisor for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. 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 39 he was 14 years her LESS