Diane Varsi was an American ballet dancer, born in 1938 in San Mateo, who died in 1992.
Biography
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, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award – and the cult film Wild in the Streets. She left Hollywood to pursue personal and artistic aims, notably at Bennington College in Vermont, where she studied poetry with poet and translator Ben Belitt.
Contemporaries
Suki Schorer
American ballet dancer, ballet mistress, teacher, and writer
Sharon Farrell
American actress (1940–2023)
Sara Leland
American ballet dancer (1941-2020)
Bené Arnold
ballet dancer, educator
Raven Wilkinson
first African American woman to dance for a major classical ballet company
Patricia McBride
American ballet dancer
Alan Bergman
ballet dancer and photographer (1943–2010)
Eric Emerson
Musician, actor, dancer (1945–1975)
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