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DIANA DOUGLAS, THE first wife of Kirk Douglas and mother of Michael Douglas, has died in Los Angeles. She was 92.
Douglas died of cancer at a motion picture industry retirement home in the Woodland Hills neighborhood, according to an obituary from Michael Douglas’s production company, Furthur Films. It cited Diana Douglas’s husband of fifteen years, Donald A. Webster of Washington.
Born Diana Love Dill in Bermuda, where her family had lived for centuries and her father was the attorney general, Douglas later moved to New York and met Kirk Douglas while they were both studying at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
She later went to California on a $200-a-week contract with Warner Bros against Douglas’s advice that she try for Broadway instead.
She went on to have a six-decade as an actress and model, appearing in dozens of movies and television episodes, including the 1987 Steve Martin film Planes, Trains and Automobiles and the TV shows ER and The West Wing.
She also did stage roles, including some on Broadway.
In May 1943, Douglas appeared on the cover of Life magazine, modeling spring fashions.
“Kirk Douglas, by then serving in the Navy during World War II, saw her on the cover and told his shipmates he would marry her,” according to the obituary.
They wed that November and went on the have two sons, Michael and Joel, before divorcing in 1951.
“We had brought to marriage such different concepts of what it constituted, what was expected due,” she wrote in her memoir, “In the Wings and Beyond.”
The two remained on amicable terms. She even appeared with him in several movies, including her last film, 2003′s “It Runs in the Family,” which also starred Michael Douglas and one of her grandsons, Cameron.
Douglas was also married to actor Bill Darrid from 1956 until his death in 1992.
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It should be called Diageo day!
It should be called, ‘national, thanks lads I have yer money and ye have yer piss’ day.
I have decided to produce and sell a strong alcoholic drink called “Responsibly” That way everyone in the country can get shit faced drinking responsibly. And all the other drinks makers will be advertising for me on their cans with the slogan “please drink responsibly” Probably will annoy the government as well.
genius
Find Arthur’s day quite embarrassing; we just lost a Junior Health Minister for among other things failing to break the link between drinking and sports events. Never mind Róisín we now drink, we’ll… because… Arthur tells us to?!
You really need to get out more often ;-)
I couldnt After more but I see you already have the moron comments after your post.
Nice Advertisement, I hope you got a nice bit of money off Diageo and Drink Aware? Oh wait….they basically are the same people. I’m sick if this Arthur’s day crap and the way the media roll in behind it, presumably for some free passes and some pints.
It is marketing genius!
Guinness in a plastic glass? Urrgh.
Plastic glass for the plastic paddys.
To Arthur!
it is a bit of a buy our product that was once owned by an Irish man and is now owned by an English company day…. but it’s a social event none the less, which I enjoy… a few bands playing, drink, craic, easy drunk chicks etc…. :-D could you ask for much more?
it is a bit of a buy our product that was once owned by an Irish man and is now owned by an English company day…. but it’s a social event none the less, which I enjoy… a few bands playing, drink, craic, easy drunk chicks etc…. :-D could you ask for much more?
better than paddies day…. ;-)
Just what we need another reason to drink….. Feckin sheep..
Happy Arthurs day folks. hope everyone enjoys a few tonight and stays safe.
Dave, you really need go get out more.
Ireland could do without another dedicated drink day.
On a Thursday too, with tomorrow being a work and school day. It’s ridiculous.
Athurs Day…A Thursday, get it…always gonna be on a Thursday. Genius!
Arthur’s Day…A Thursday, get it…always gonna be on a Thursday. Genius!
Does anyone know if there is still a free pint at 17:59? The last couple of years the barman would give a round of free Guinness to anyone who wanted it at a minute to six. Just wondering if anyone knows if this was an official marketing tactic of diageo or just a courtesy by individual pubs?
It’s up to the individual publicans.
Roisin Shortall is going on the session today.
Why a Thursday? Who wants to go on the piss on a Thursday if you’ve work the next morning?
Not on a Thursday thanks, work in the morning.
Some people are quite funny and presumptuous as to the origin of Diageo.
It’s not owned by an Englishman and never has been. It’s Spanish.
I don’t know where you’re getting that from. It’s headquartered in the UK and it’s main listing is on the LSE. It is most definitely not Spanish.
All the people on the dole don’t have work in the morning..the Monday Club has moved to Thursday for this week
I wouldn’t say all Colm but you have a point there . There are a few that like to sit there all day but I would say they are very much a minoraty.
Most people on the dole are bearly scraping through (btw I’m not on the dole)
Diageo is British surely. Grand Metropolitan merged with Guinness to form Diageo in 1997.
Could somebody in journal.ie explain the heavy hitting all week on behalf of Guinness/Diageo?
Agree johncleary. I’m a big fan of the Journal, but have found their promotion of Arthur’s Day quite shameless. Any sign of Susan Daly , Hugh ?
I do enjoy a few pints but I like to leave it until Friday night when I’m not driving on Sat.
But sure I’ll go out and support another multi and drink a few diet cokes while enjoying the atmosphere.
Amazing to read the comments by people taken in with this farce. Also how much did journal.ie get payed for this advertisement.
A better tip, Don’t Drink! How low do you go, to help plastic paddy’s get plastered? Well Journal.ie, how much did you sell your soul for?
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