Diane Baker

Oh, and Senator, just one more thing.... love your suit.

Did she always play weak characters? For a while I confused her with that actress whose nurse character gets her leg amputated in that doctor movie with Ben Gazarra.

Lesbian, that’s all I know.

She spent A LOT of time with a Robert Osborne.

Take this THING back to Baltimore!

She turned her hand to producing for a while.

I believe she tragically lost her life fighting an oil rig fire in the Gulf of Mexico

Gulf of AMERICA

Toughened your nipples, didn’t it? 😷

^You son of a BITCH!

She was in Hitchcock's Marine with Sean Connery and Tippi Hedren

Marine layer.

She wasn’t originally hired to do STRAITJACKET with Joan Crawford.

The role of the daughter was first going to be played by a very sexy actress, Anne Helm. But after just a day or so’s filming Crawford demanded Helm be replaced - and requested Baker (who she remembered from THE BEST OF EVERYTHING.)

She was also in The Cable Guy, where she played Jim Carrey's mother. George Segal was Carrey's father.

And she was Margot Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank

Anne Helm admitted, decades after the fact, that she had an affair with peak Elvis.

One of the very first threads I started (2014).

When her friend Robert Osborne was alive she was pretty active with TCM.

Not sure if she is still there but like 7 years ago or so she was the head of the acting department at an MFA Acting program in San Francisco.

R18, what was the blind item? The original link is dead.

r20 Several of the posts on the thread quote extensively from the original article.

Diane Baker was pretty and mousy at the same time, you can understand why Joan wanted her over Anne Helm.

Anne Berlin had 6 fingers....

BODY ODOR & FARTS

Why do you keep calling Marnie “Marine?!”

She IS Diane Baker!

Alfred Hitchcock originally wanted Suzanne Pleshette to play Lil in MARNIE. She said she would only accept leading roles, and the movie wasn't called LIL.

I enjoy her quirky actress daughter Blanche Baker. Her sedative meltdown in Sixteen Candles is terrific.

I always liked her

R3 = Helen Hunt, connoisseur of cock.

One of the weirdest TV Guide articles I ever read was in the 1970s, when a reporter wrote that he/she was assigned to write a portrait of Diane Baker, but she was so incredibly boring that there was nothing worth mentioning about her.

r28 Blanche Baker's mother is Carroll Baker not Diane Baker.

Joan Crawford was fucking sexy John Anthony Hays on the set of Strait Jacket

Joan Crawford was also fucking sexy Ty Hardin on the set of Berserk!

And finally, Joan Crawford was fucking hunky John Hamill in Trog.

Viagra was invented back then ? ?

R36 why would Crawford need Viagra?

[quote] why would Crawford need Viagra?

Well….

R34 My God she was ugly.

She must have preferred it from behind when she was doing those men...them too.

[quote]R34 Joan Crawford was also fucking sexy Ty Hardin on the set of Berserk!

Uggh. Why WOULD he?? She was 60 but looked 75.

BERSERK! was supposed to be my big break. Thanks for nothing Joan Fucking Crawford.

R41 for his career, darling

He was hoping to be cast in TROG ? ! ?

R44 gotta fuck the star right

Whatever else anyone says about Diane Baker, she was nothing if not boring.

R14- William Castle looks just like that Closet Queen from Frasier.

Wow, I didn't know that. I fell in love with Anne Helm the last 2-3 years; she pops up in a lot of the dozens of Westerns I watch.

Gorgeous girl. I can understand why Miss Crawford 86'd her.