Diane McBain

WOmWAm Career Perspective

Her compelling looks pointed her towards stardom early in her career but her best Survey roles are from B-efforts where she offered an even more compelling Bitch Queen-liness... TV work featured many repeat appearances as different characters on the same show, which somewhat works against definitive roles, but both her WWWest roles are some of her strongest... A "near-great''' FEMMEtasm...


Roles of Interest

Bourbon Street Beat
("The Missing Queen")


She's not missing as a Beauty Queen with presence...

Parrish

With her main squeeze, Troy Donahue...

Surfside Six

A regular as "Daphne Sutton" - anybody seen Troy?
Burke's Law
("Who Killed Marty Kelso?")


Distant Trumpet

Yet another appearance with boy-toy Troy...

Burke's Law  ("Who Killed Mr. Cartwheel?")

"Xenobia"
The Wild Wild West
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"The Night of a Thousand Eyes")

An assassin who Jim forgives for trying to kill him...
The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
("The Deadly Toys Affair")

 
Batman ("The Thirteenth Hat")

Spinout

A clinical man-chaser...
The Wild Wild West ("The Night of the Vicious Valentine")

Part of a Femme Fatale Cartel that marries to murder...

Batman ("A Piece of the Action")

"Pinky Pinston" was based on "Daphne Sutton," the flighty rich girl on Surfside Six, where she co-starred with Van Williams, who guest starred  here as "The Green Hornet..." All this explanation doesn't mitigate that it's largely a lame appearance for her...

Thunder Alley

Hot chick in cool shades...

The Man From U.N.C.L.E.  ("The Five Daughters Affair")

I Sailed to Tahiti with an All Girl Crew

The Mini-Skirt Mob

The kind of "Shayne" that comes back in your nightmares, kneeing you in the nuts... The apex of DMcB's career...

Temporada Salvaje

Another of one of her many "I'll do anything" career moves, but she still looks hotter than the Diablo's Salsa...

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