Diane Cilento

The venture allows her to participate in experimental theater. Dorothy Dell was interred in Metairie Cemetery, in New Orleans, Louisana. Cilento continued working as an actress both in films and television, and in the 1980s settled near Cairns Australia, where she built her own outdoor theater, named "Karnak", in the rainforest. Dell was killed instantly and Wagner died several hours later. They are the parents of the actor Jason Connery. On their way to Pasadena their vehicle was involved in an accident. Connery was the second of Cilento's three husbands, and they were married from 1962 until their divorce in 1973. In 1934 she attended a party in Altadena, California with Dr Carl Wagner, to whom she was reported to have become engaged.

She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Tom Jones (1963), but allowed her film career to decline following her marriage to actor Sean Connery. Paramount scheduled her to play opposite Gary Cooper and Shirley Temple in Now and Forever in what was to have been her first major starring role as a romantic lead. She quickly secured work in British films and steadily worked until the end of the decade without making a major impression with film audiences. Her next film Shoot the Works led to comparisons with Mae West, and her rendition of the ballad "With My Eyes Wide Open, I'm Dreaming" in the film became a hit record. She decided at a young age to follow a career as an actress and moved to the United Kingdom in the early 1950s. Her most important and substantial role followed in the Shirley Temple film Little Miss Marker. Born to Raphael and Phyllis Cilento, both highly respected medical practitioners, Cilento and her family settled in Brisbane, Australia. The film was a success and the reviews for Dell were favourable; Paramount began to consider her as a potential star.

Diane Cilento (born October 5, 1933 in Rabaul Papua New Guinea) is a theater and film actress. She won her first film role over such established contenders as Mae Clarke and Isabel Jewell and made her debut in Wharf Angel (1934). She moved to Hollywood in 1933 and was signed to a contract by Paramount Studios. During this time she was closely associated with Russ Colombo and her celebrity status was elevated by the media attention she received while denying rumours of an impending marriage. In 1931 she moved to New York to appear on Broadway in the Ziegfeld Follies, and followed this success with her role in the production of Tattle Tales in 1933.

With this success she established a successful vaudeville act. She began entering and winning beauty pageants and at the age of fifteen won the title of "Miss New Orleans". Born Dorothy Dell Goff in Hattiesburg, Mississippi to entertainers, she spent much of her childhood in New Orleans, Louisiana. Dorothy Dell (January 30, 1915 – June 8, 1934) was an American film actress.

Lamour also won the title of "Miss New Orleans" in 1931, succeeding her friend Dell who had won the title the previous year. Dorothy Lamour, a childhood friend of Dell, credited Dell as the person responsible for the beginning of her own film career. Her final role in "Now and Forever" was taken by Carole Lombard, and provided Lombard with one of her earliest significant successes.