Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
1st Oscar Nomination
Directed by Martin Scorsese – 1974…Diane had the opportunity to do the TV series “Alice” based on the original movie, instead she chose Broadway. However, in 1980 – Warner Bros. and CBS enticed Diane to join the TV series…Polly Holiday portraying “Flo” (based on Ladd’s original character in the film) was leaving the show. Ladd created a brand new character, Isabelle (“Belle”) a country western singer/songwriter/waitress from Mississippi (Diane’s home state).
Wild At Heart
2nd Oscar Nomination
Directed by David Lynch – 1990…Also starring Diane’s daughter, Laura Dern, the film won the “Palme D’or Award” at Cannes 43rd International Film Festival.
Rambling Rose
3rd Oscar Nomination
Directed by Martha Coolidge – 1991…Laura Dern and Diane Ladd – The first mother/daughter in tandem to both be nominated for the “Oscar” in the same year. Princess Diana chose “Rambling Rose” as one of her all-time favorites, and held a London Royal Premiere and a party in the cast’s honor.
16 yr old Rose Diane Ladner appearing at the Gallery Circle Theatre, New Orleans, Louisiana
17 years old - Copa Girl- New York’s World Famous Copacabana
New York debut - 17 year old Diane portrays Carol Cutrere in cousin Tennessee William’s off-Broadway hit Revival, Orpheus Descending, with Bruce Dern to rave reviews. “A splash of Tabasco sauce; tarte, tasty, and capable of turning the bland into something exotic; between her technical outpouring of craft and her mental emotional creation of acting art, the thinnest layer of gauze, she is perfectly clear as Shakespeare told us, all artists should be!” –Tennessee Williams
Diane with Ben Gazzara, National Tour of A Hatful of Rain by Michael V. Gazzo directed by Frank Corsaro
Chicago’s Medium Rare Review- Singing/Dancing/Comedy
Broadway - Carry Me Back to Morningside Heights, directed by Sidney Portier with David Steinberg, Lou Gossett, and Cecily Tyson
Off-Broadway - "Noisy Passengers" with Robert Deniro and Shelley Winters, directed by Pete Masterson
Opening Night Broadway - "Luanne Hampton Laverty Oberlander" - Zoe Caldwell, Diane and Robert Whitehead
Celebrating Luanne at Sardi’s, NY. Maury Povich, Former Miss America Yolande Fox, Diane Ladd, and Ambassador Cherif Guellal
The Fantastics National Tour
Love Letters with Christopher Walken
Love Letters with Christopher Walken
Shelley Winter’s livingroom, Head of the Actor’s Studio, Lee Strasberg, giving Diane away in marriage to her second husband William Shea Jr.
With Jane Fonda, Roxy Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, Women Speak
Driving Miss Daisy, with Charlie Robinson, Los Angeles, CA
Diane Ladd, Actress: Chinatown. Southern belle Diane Ladd was born Rose Diane Ladner in Meridian, Mississippi. Her mother, Mary Bernadette (Anderson), was a former actress, from a Norwegian and German immigrant family, and her father, Preston Paul Ladner, was a veterinarian, from a family with deep roots in the American South.
