Diane Varsi | |
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.jpg) Varsi in 1958 | |
| Born | Diane Marie Antonia Varsi February 23, 1938 San Mateo, California, U.S. |
| Died | November 19, 1992 (aged 54) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Resting place | Mount Tamalpais Cemetery |
| Alma mater | Bennington College |
| Years active | 1957–1977 |
| Spouses | James Dickson
(m. 1956; div. 1958)Michael Hausman
(m. 1961; div. 1965)Russell Parker
(m. 1966; div. 1970) |
| Children | 2 |
"The very thing that led me to want to act was very mysterious, even to me. I thought there was a whole communal feeling in film. That the idea of film was to be a service of humanity, a means of communication. But the spirit was power."
Varsi on her acting motives and the film industry.[1]
Diane Marie Antonia Varsi (February 23, 1938 – November 19, 1992) was an American film actress[2] best known for her performances in Peyton Place – her film debut, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award – and the cult film Wild in the Streets. She left Hollywood to pursue personal and artistic aims, notably at Bennington College in Vermont, where she studied poetry with poet and translator Ben Belitt.
- ^ San Antonio Light - January 3, 1971, San Antonio, Texas. p.46: Diane Varsi is on the way back
- ^ Hyams, Joe (December 16, 1957). "In Hollywood: Diane Varsi Sees Herself as 'Just an Actor,' Not Star". New York Herald Tribune. p. 15. Retrieved January 21, 2021. "'I'm just an actor.' Don't you mean actress? 'No, I'm an actor, not an actress. Stanislavsky always talks about the actor and he means female as well as male. Well, I'm an actor.'"