Diane Baker (born February 25, 1938) is an American actress, producer, and educator.
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Early life
Baker was born February 25, 1938 at Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital and raised in the Los Angeles neighborhoods of North Hollywood and Studio City. She is the daughter of businessman Clyde Lucius Baker and Dorothy Helen Harrington, who Diane claims was "always used" to sit on the knee of one of the Marx Brothers in some of their early films but "hated it" and "quit as soon as she married". Baker has two younger sisters, Patricia and Cheryl.
Career
After securing a seven-year contract with 20th Century Fox in 1958, Baker made her film debut when she was chosen by director George Stevens to play Margot Frank in the 1959 motion picture The Diary of Anne Frank. In the same year, she starred in Journey to the Center of the Earth with James Mason and Pat Boone; and in The Best of Everything with Hope Lange and Joan Crawford.
Other Fox films in which Baker appeared include the assassination thriller Nine Hours to Rama, Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man, and The 300 Spartans. Her television work, which began in the 1960s, includes appearances on Follow the Sun, Bus Stop, Adventures in Paradise, The Lloyd Bridges Show, The Nurses, The Invaders (in the first episode), and two episodes of Route 66.
