page_title: Dianne Foster
section_title: Film
hierarchical_section_title: Dianne Foster / Film
caption_attribution_description: English: Dianne Foster in Drive a Crooked Road (1954) - trailer (cropped screenshot)
context_page_description: Dianne Foster was a Canadian actress of Ukrainian descent.
context_section_description: In March 1952, her husband returned to Canada while she stayed in London, England, to honor her five-year contract with a British film company. In 1953, she co-starred alongside Charlton Heston and Lizabeth Scott in the middling Bad for Each Other. In 1954, she was signed by Columbia Pictures and relocated to Hollywood, where her first appearance proper that year was with Mickey Rooney in Drive a Crooked Road. In 1955, Foster appeared on the cover of Picturegoer and co-starred in two films, Glenn Ford's The Violent Men and Burt Lancaster's The Kentuckian.
  Although her film career continued, it was not on the same upward trajectory as before. In 1957 she co-starred in the biopic Monkey on My Back about boxer Barney Ross, Night Passage with James Stewart and The Brothers Rico with Richard Conte. In 1958, she starred with Alan Ladd in The Deep Six, and that same year she appeared alongside Jack Hawkins in Gideon of Scotland Yard before her last really big picture, The Last Hurrah. It featured an all-star cast that included Spencer Tracy, Pat O'Brien, and Basil Rathbone, and was nominated for a BAFTA award. In 1963, she made her last film appearance, in the Dean Martin vehicle Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?.
caption: Foster in Drive a Crooked Road, 1954
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