She worked many temporary jobs including as a receptionist at KHJ-TV and a tabulator at a bank clearing house. With her poise, grace and perfect proportions she was a natural model.Īt twenty, Diane returned to Los Angeles to pursue her career.
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On one of her trips to visit Los Angeles, she used her new found confidence and contacted a professional photographer to take some photos. At 5' 2" Diane was too short to be principal dancer, but she was hired to be in the pony line at Bimbo's in San Francisco.ĭuring her time in San Francisco, Diane was asked to model at an art class at the University of California at Berkeley. At the urging of a roommate, she auditioned for a job with the Dorothy Dorbin Dancers. When Diane graduated from Hollywood High School at eighteen, she moved into the Hollywood Studio Club, a YWCA sponsored hotel for aspiring actresses, singers and dancers. She agreed to some demure photos in her toe shoes. At the age of 16 she was approached by a photographer after her ballet class and asked to pose. After school, she worked as an usherette at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood. She participated in theater productions as a dancer and choreographer. The ballet training was put to good use when Diane attended Hollywood High School. She immediately decided she wanted to be a ballerina and began taking lessons from Russian ballerina Maria Bekefi. She also loved horses and hoped to own one someday.Īt the age of ten, Diane saw her first ballet, "The Nutcracker Suite". She chose her confirmation name, Theresa, becoming Marguerite Diane Theresa Empey.Įven at this young age, Diane loved to read and her artistic talents were evident in her drawings and paintings.
Raised a Catholic, Diane's first communion came in 1939. Marguerite got the house and custody of the "minor child". The divorce wasn't finalized until 1938 when Diane was six. Guy referred to his wife as a "dumbbell". Guy Empey filed for divorce in 1934 when his daughter was two. Her mother Marguerite (nee Andrus) was a Hollywood starlet and former Miss Long Beach, Ca.
Her father, Arthur Guy Empey, was a WWI veteran, book author, screen writer and song lyricist. M arguerite Diane Empey was born July 29, 1932, at Hollywood Hospital in Hollywood, Ca.
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