Actress Diana Douglas, first wife to Kirk Douglas and the
mother of Oscar winner Michael Douglas has died at 92. Her husband, Donald
Webster, confirmed her passing to The Hollywood Reporter, saying she died
Saturday from cancer at the Motion Picture and Television Home in Woodland
Hills, Calif.
Diana Douglas was born as Diana Love Dill on 22 January,
1923 in Devonshire, Bermuda. Later she had immigrated to US. She had started
her career as an actress in 1942 with Warner Bros Studios and had appeared in
more than 50 films since then. She had modelled on the cover of Life Magazine
in 1943. Some of her famous movies are The Indian Fighter; Planes, Trains and
Automobiles; The Days of Our Lives. Her last appearance was Runs in the Family
in 2003 and retired from acting in 2008. She had married famous US actor Kirk
Douglas in 1943 and is mother of Oscar winning actor Michael Douglas and Joel
Douglas.
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