Diane Varsi
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Diane Marie Antonia Varsi (February 23, 1938 – November 19, 1992) was an American film actress best known for her performances in Peyton Place – her film debut, and for which she was nominated for an Academy Award – and the cult film Wild in the Streets. She left Hollywood in order to pursue personal and artistic aims, notably at Bennington College in Vermont, where she studied poetry with poet and translator Ben Belitt, among others. Description above from the Wikipedia article Diane Varsi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: San Mateo, California, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: February 23, 1938
Age: 87 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: November 19, 1992
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Bloody Mama
Overview: Sexually abused as a young girl, Kate "Ma" Barker grows into a violent and powerful woman by the 1930s. She lovingly dominates her grown sons and grooms them into a pack of tough crooks. The boys include the cruel Herman, who still shares a bed with Ma; Fred, an ex-con who fell in love with a fellow prisoner; and Lloyd, who gets high on whatever's handy. Together they form a deadly, bizarre family of Depression-era bandits.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-03-24
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Compulsion
Overview: Two close friends' plan to execute a flawless crime is crushed when one of them inadvertently leaves his glasses at the crime scene.
Genres: Crime Drama History Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-04-01
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Wild in the Streets
Overview: Musician Max Frost lends his backing to a Senate candidate who wants to give 18-year-olds the right to vote, but he takes things a step further than expected. Inspired by their hero's words, Max's fans pressure their leaders into extending the vote to citizens as young as 15. Max and his followers capitalize on their might by bringing new issues to the fore, but, drunk on power, they soon take generational warfare to terrible extremes.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-05-29
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Peyton Place
Overview: In the outwardly respectable New England community of Peyton Place, shopkeeper Constance McKenzie tries to make up for a past indiscretion -- which resulted in her illegitimate daughter Allison -- by adopting a chaste, prudish attitude towards all things sexual. In spite of herself, Constance can't help but be attracted to handsome new teacher Michael Rossi. Meanwhile, the restless Allison, who'd like to be as footloose and fancy-free as the town's "fast girl" Betty Anderson, falls sincerely in love with mixed-up mama's boy Norman Page.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-13
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From Hell to Texas
Overview: The naive cowboy Tod Lohman accidentally kills the son of the powerful land baron Hunter Boyd. Tod runs for his life, pursued by the dead man's vengeful brothers. Tod shelters on the ranch of Amos Bradley and he falls in love with his daughter Juanita. However, Tod is concerned that he'll eventually have to leave when his pursuers catch up with him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-04-29
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Ten North Frederick
Overview: After her father's funeral, Ann Chapin thinks back over the last five years of his life, years of apparent political and personal failure dominated by a selfish and dissatisfied wife, eased only by alcohol. But it starts to emerge that he had in fact one brief and unsuspected period of happiness and love.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-05-22
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Killers Three
Overview: America's DJ Dick Clark and Robert Walker Jr. star as two country boys who decide to rob a pile of cash from a bootlegger, assisted by the man's restless wife (Diane Varsi). But the heist doesn't go as planned and takes a tragic turn. The trio of would-be thieves then takes off for California, but with the police already on their tail, it's clear that a trail of blood and death is going to follow them all the way there.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-11-01
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Roseanna
Overview: A young American girl is found dead in Gota Kanal, Swedens largest channel. Since there are hardly any clues or evidence at all it seems as if the murder cant be solved. Martin Beck and his men are assigned to the case. Soon they find a likely suspect and together with a police woman they begin a cat and mouse game to catch him.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1967-08-14
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The People
Overview: A young woman is assigned to teach school in a secluded valley whose inhabitants appear stern, secretive and anti-pleasure. Following two children who disappear to play in the woods, she finds that this is actually a community of extraterrestrials with mild paranormal powers who are attempting to repress and deny their heritage for fear of arousing prejudice and hatred in their human neighbors. Based on a series of novels by the late Zenna Henderson.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-22
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Johnny Got His Gun
Overview: A young American soldier, rendered in pseudocoma from an artillery shell from WWI, recalls his life leading up to that point.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-08-04
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Sweet Love, Bitter
Overview: A loose fictitious of Charlie Parker's last years and a portrait of the jazz scene in 1960's New York. A black jazz musician bent on self destruction forms an odd friendship with a white college professor full of feeling sorry for himself.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-30
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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Overview: A disturbed and institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-07-14
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