![]() ![]() 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. The nudie version of Mermaids of Tiburon was also distributed under the title The Aqua Sex.M arguerite Diane Empey was born July 29, 1932, at Hollywood Hospital in Hollywood, Ca. The original version of The Mermaids of Tiburon featured noted pin-up model Diane Webber as the queen of the mermaids, complete with a fishy tail when the movie failed to do much business, director John Lamb added new footage in which the queen is joined by a bevy of other underwater beauties, who mysteriously have legs but also swim topless through the ocean depths. Jamison discovers the pearls are being guarded by a handful of beautiful mermaids who are determined to see that the treasure doesn't fall into the wrong hands. Jamison charters a boat to Tiburon in search of the pearls, but he's not the only one who knows about the treasure Milo (Timothy Carey), a vicious gangster, stole Steinhauer's maps and killed the old man, and is now sailing to Tiburon to claim the valuables. ![]() However, when Jamison pays Steinhauer a visit, he finds the place ransacked, the pearls gone and old man missing. Steinhauer shows Jamison some remarkable specimens of "flame pearls," rare jewels of the sea that change color in a prismatic fashion, which he discovered during a recent visit to the island of Tiburon he wants to know more about them and invites Jamison to his home to discuss his find. Samuel Jamison (George Rowe) is a marine biologist on the staff at an aquatic theme park who one day receives a visit from an elderly gentleman named Ernst Steinhauer (John Mylong). Alluring but mysterious females come to rescue of a man on a mission in this beautifully photographed underwater adventure. ![]()
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