Michael Douglas' mother Diana dies aged 92
(MENAFN- Arab News) LOS ANGELES: Diana Douglas the first wife of Kirk Douglas and mother of Michael Douglas died Saturday 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 D.C.
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.'
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 D.C.
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.'
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