Highest rated movie: The Major and the Minor (1942)
Lowest rated movie: The Bride Wore Boots (1946)
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Looking for reviews of Diana Lynn movies? Cinafilm has a total of 298 reviews across 19 movies.
Movies starring Diana Lynn have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average score of 57%.
The Major and the Minor - released in 1942 - is Diana Lynn's highest rated movie, with a score of 75% based on 65 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Diana Lynn is The Bride Wore Boots - released in 1946 - with a score of 43% based on 2 reviews.
She was a child prodigy, pianist, at age 10, and her first movie role was one of the children in, "They Shall Have Music" (1939). You see her playing the piano. She made another movie using her 'real name' - Dolly in, "There's Magic in Music" (1941). She signed a long term contract with Paramount in 1942, and had her named changed to Diana Lynn. She had good roles in, "The Major, and the Minor" (1942); "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek", and, "Our Hearts Were Young, and Gay" - both in 1944. She had fewer roles as she matured; she did do, "Bedtime for Bonzo" (1951), but had a nice career on TV shows. She died of a stroke when she was making a comeback in film. Her marriages were from 1948 to 1954 to architect John C. Lindsay; no children; then in December 6,1956, she married Mortimer C.Hall, president of L.A. radio station, KLAC. His mother was Dorothy Schiff, publisher then of the 'New York Post'. She had four children with him between 1958, and 1964. They moved to New York City so he could assume a post on his mother's paper. She passed away on December 18, 1971 of a stroke / brain hemorrhage in Los Angeles.
Diana Lynn has acted in films with Jerry Lewis, Ray Milland, Dean Martin and Bess Flowers.
Diana Lynn has worked with these film directors: George Marshall, John Farrow, Billy Wilder and John Sturges.
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