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Dianne Foster is a Canadian actress. Of Ukrainian descent, Foster began her acting career at the age of 13 in a stage adaptation of James Barrie's What Every Woman Knows. At 14 she began a radio career and subsequently moved to Toronto and became one of Canada's top radio stars. In 1951 she went to London, England for a holiday and after meeting and marrying Andrew Allen, drama supervisor for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, she decided to stay. Foster appeared onstage in Agatha Christie's The Hollow and Orson Welles's Othello that same year. In March of 1952 her husband returned to Canada while she stayed in London to honour her five-year contract with a British film company.
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Edmonton-born "Dianne Foster" relocated to England at an early age. By age 13, Foster was an established model and film actress ("The Quiet Woman", "Isn't Life Wonderful?") She moved to the U.S. in 1954, where she was signed by Columbia Pictures. Her best-remembered credits under the Columbia banner include "John Ford"'s "The Last Hurrah" (1958) and "Gideon's Day" (1959). On loan to "Kirk Douglas"' Bryna Productions, she co-starred with Douglas in "The Kentuckian" (1955). Dianne Foster retired from show business in the early 1960s, after wrapping up her Columbia obligations with "Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?" (1963).
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It chronicles Ross's thrilling championship days as a boxer, his reckless gambling habits, his marriage to nice showgirl Cathy (Dianne Foster) and finally his struggle with a drug addiction. When finished as a boxer it takes us through his wartime heroics as a marine fighting the Japanese at the jungles of Guadalcanal (won a Silver Star award), who comes down with malignant malaria and is given morphine as a treatment and becomes addicted to the drug. The heart of the film has him at home and trying to fight his drug addiction with the help of his wife and friends. With the most intense scenes of him at the Federal hospital in Lexington, Ky., going through the "withdrawal" period of his cure.
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The nearest thing to a leading lady is Dianne Foster (Joanna Delafield). Other key roles were enacted by Cyril Cusack (Herbert 'Birdie' Sparrow), Ronald (son of Leslie) Howard (Paul Delafield), Laurence Naismith (Arthur Sayer), Jack Watling (Rev. Julian Small), and Donal Donnelly (Feeney*).
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Dianne lives in Tigard with her two canine friends Peach and Bailey, and likes sailing, kayaking, biking and reading. She has ... served on the Board of Washington County Community Youth Services.
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This time, the wrath of Gideon is being visited upon a corrupt detective-sergeant named Eric Foster -- changed to (Rip-Off?) Kirby for the film version. Foster/Kirby was played by Derek Bond (1919British leading man whose career never matched the chequered suit he wore in Nicholas Nickleby (1947). Forget P.C. 49 (American readers think T.J. Hooker):
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