Joan Diener was an American theatre actress and singer with a three-and-a-half-octave range.
Born in Columbus, Ohio, Diener majored in psychology at Sarah Lawrence College and moonlighted as an actress while still a student. She made her Broadway debut in the 1948 revue Small Wonder, choreographed by Gower Champion and co-starring Tom Ewell, Alice Pearce and Jack Cassidy.
Diener met her future husband, theatre director Albert Marre, when she won the role of Lalume, the seductive wife of the Wazi...
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