Diane McBain--Rare TV Interview

[@margeshilling7983]

Diane McBain was one of the most beautiful actresses ever in Hollywood. So glad to see her-what a warm, funny, and down to earth woman she is.

[@spapsppspspspsnewso]

I suddenly should have plays Ulla in the movie The Producers (Original or Remake)

[@marymary68ify]

OMG she is such a sweet and spiritual person. She comes across as not being at all vain and she just draws you into her spiritual light. I truly adore her. WHAT A GREAT BEAUTY SHE WAS AT AGE 18 AND SHE IS STILL BEAUTIFUL.

[@marymary68ify]

She is truly a down to earth person. She worked with the homeless and AIDS victims, she really gave of her self. Just a wonderful and Godly individual.

[@wandahoward2624]

RIP Diane McBain. I enjoyed this interview and the movie Parrish among other work from her.

[@jod6cindy]

A lovely, classy, and down to earth lady. A very talented actress, too. She is great!

[@lindadavis3728]

An exquisite beauty of her time and still a beauty.

[@cynthiawilliams737]

I recently read her book & life was not easy for her in Hollywood!!

[@catirerubio]

She is so smart and engaging. Just a person that you would love to hang out with.

[@juliusbocala676]

I was so excited to watch Diane’s interview. I am such a big fan of hers, and I’ve seen many of her films and television shows. She is a very talented actress and a very wonderful person. 🙂

[@donnysarian]

I used to go to the Glendale Center Theater all the time with my family when I was a kid. They had great plays there and still do. My family used to go every year to see A Christmas Carol. I had no idea that Diane acted there. She is still gorgeous!

[@jimmyo1123]

She looks awesome!!!!

[@billfleming6211]

Still just gorgeous!

[@Jocular64]

Beautiful! Intelligent! Witty! Talented! Terrific interview! New fan!

[@andrewmasset8751]

Classy and gorgeous lady..Rest...

[@margeshindollar6490]

I enjoyed watching this interview with the lovely Diane McBain! I remember reading about her in all the fan magazines back in the early 60’s. Diane, you are as classy and beautiful now as you were back in the day.

[@MovieJon]

Such a shame that he constantly has to interrupt her and change the subject just as she's on the verge of revealing something interesting. Still, she did manage to get a few things out. A lovely woman.

[@RJT80]

MovieJon He violates every single rule of interviewing. It's tough to watch. Normally you'd leave the interviewee the chance to walk-back the Crawford stuff, or to elaborate. Did you have any actual interactions with her? Anyone who knows about Crawford knows she was a taskmaster who lived on first impressions. Find out what soured her on the person you are interviewing.

[@tubagee]

MovieJon the interviewer is a woman .

[@kelime]

No, the interviewer is male. An effeminate male, but male.

[@TheWriterWalker]

Man or ugly woman.

[@garysmith8073]

That's not a he it's a she LOL.

[@Barnabasbytes]

Thank you for this. Claudelle Inglish was my favorite movie growing up.

[@arjay777]

What a great interview. Diane McBain grows more beautiful as she ages. And what a sweet personality. I wish she had done more film work. I knew an actress from Diane's era, in fact she was married to Troy Donahue for a few years. All of them had such great personalities. Sadly lacking today in this Kardashian world.

[@edwardgeorge4881]

Interesting woman; very beautiful - very bright! 💐🇦🇺🇺🇸 Spiritual you are - you glow!💐

[@bwayland1290]

I never realized until the clip fr. "Parish," how much DIANE favors Carole Lombard. Such a beautiful spirit. Wish we'd see alot more of her today. They used to show Surfside 6 in syndication on Sat. when I was growing up. My first boyfriend looked just like Troy Donahue, so I can't 4get that ! Very enjoyable interview.

[@marymary68ify]

B wayland yes she does resemble Carole Lombard. She also resembles Carole Lynley

[@maxt69992008]

I just saw her as "Carla Stevens" in the 6th season of 77 Sunset Strip filmed 1963 in a very nourish kind of way. She died in the end. Very tragic. That was 77 Sunset Strip's final season. She did a couple of other episodes of 77 Sunset Strip. She was good in all of them.

[@1dannaa]

she should have been a "superstar"

[@gonecountry64]

Stumbled upon this after watching Diane in “Spinout” with Elvis on TCM. She was gorgeous then, as well as in this interview. (I believe she’s 80-years old now).

[@claytonmcsheridan5391]

RIP Sweet lady.

[@robynheavner4689]

Rest in Peace, Diane ❤

[@valuecalc]

Happy Birthday, Ms. Diane McBain.

[@neildickson5394]

She is strangely one of the first big stars I was aware of. Her film, Claudell Inglesh was on TV, then I never saw it again until recently on KZbin. It was like seeing the holy grail again. I see she is still alive at 77, I wonder if she knows the impact she had, and still has for some?

[@SenorZorrozzz]

Beautiful. She is very beautiful. She’s kind of perfect , really.

[@dgray9020]

I saw a clip of Diane McBain when she was on Days of Our Lives in the 80s.

[@jamesfox2579]

Diane is such an Incredibly Beauuuutiful and Lovely Woman!

[@JJJBRICE]

Skip Lowe has an unique turn of phrase when he says at 11:47 about Richard Burton giving her pointers in the movie Ice Palace He should said he assisted her in her acting scenes. He does not ask about Diane McBain's' being attacked by those men , although she does make a subtle reference to it when she talks about different programs at the end of the interview. She seems to be a strong, upbeat women who is not chained to the past glamourous life. Working with Miss Colbert and Miss Crawford must have been challenging since they were her age back in the 1920s at the time .. ;

[@rickdavis1030]

When was this interview filmed? I had seen her on several TV shows in the '60s, but the first time I saw her on screen was in "The Mini-Skirt Mob" in 1968.Not a very good movie by any means, but she was so incredibly sexy it made sitting through that thing bearable. I was blown away by how staggeringly beautiful she still is all these years later.

[@jimmyo1123]

Yay diane!!!!👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

[@ZJ-ne9kn]

He was not the best interviewer, but asked good questions and i loved the guests he had. some were kinda stars but hadn't been in a while off the cuff interviews are the best. I've always been a diane mcbain fan.. 😮

[@JJONNYREPP]

Diane McBain--Rare TV Interview 0340am 27.3.23 she must have been a looker if a studio just signed her up even though she had no concept of the acting profession...

[@jochenstossberg5427]

Why didn't somebody dispense with him? He's embarrassingly bad. He's beyond rude and painfully ill informed. Her slightly uptight, crisp demeanor was effective on the screen. I always loved her. Pity she can't speak without him putting himself in the picture.

[@SlimKeith11]

Still stunning in this video, you can't fake that bone structure with plastic surgery. I'm watching Claudelle Inglis from '61, I've never seen it. Thank God for TCM!! I alternated between the news & TCM during quarantine for a year.

[@leciawarner5497]

Too funny! I'm doing the same exact thing and just looked her up myself! Beautiful lady, inside and out!!

[@tonykool5347]

Parrish, Claudelle Inglish, Surfside 6, great entertainment. Diane you still look great. And she seems to be a lovely lady - which makes all the difference.

[@wandahoward2624]

I like this lady I find her really unassuming.

[@tateandemmy]

Born in Cleveland Ohio! She was up for the role of Carol Brady on The Brady Bunch.

[@rongreen2976]

Thanks for the upload! Great interview! Looks like Mr. Lowe never got these shows copyrighted. I was looking for a date at the end, but nothing. Maybe early 1990s?

[@bwayland1290]

Ron Green In reference to what year ; U said early 90s, but on the clip at approximately 11:12, when asked about working w/ Richard Burton, she makes a remark saying ...."he IS a great actor." By referring to him as still alive,that would mean before Aug 1984, which was when Burton died. I have seen copyrights on Skip E's shows before, that's odd to 4get it. Glad you brought it to our attention. Anyway, this is only a clue as to the date, or I should say my assumption, so to speak.

[@rongreen2976]

Good catch.

[@debra13]

@@bwayland1290 She also talks about Troy in the present tense, but if this was taped in 1984 or before she would have been 43 or younger, and she does seem to appear older than that.

[@spapsppspspspsnewso]

Should play Ulla in the movie The Producers (original or remake)

[@billfleming6211]

love her...

[@ThePiratemachine]

Spectacular interview. Diane McBain so charming and enchanting. I used to love her in SurfSide 6. She looks great. ( Aside: Skip could have been a good cross-examining defense attorney. Just like Charles Laughton. )

[@spapsppspspspsnewso]

Diane McBain should have plays Ulla in the Producers (Both Original or Remake)

[@gerrydooley951]

I see a bit of Jiminey Glick in Skip E. Lowe

[@leprechaunstud582]

You aren't kidding! Call him Shiminy Slick!

[@neildickson5394]

Gerry Dooley That's because Glick was based on Lowe.

[@LISA1967KT]

I thought Diane was Kristin Bells mom...so beautiful

[@TheConcludingChapterofCrawford]

Please know that McBain is FLAT OUT LYING regarding Joan having her cut out of the film. This is not true whatsoever. Joan did NOT have money invested in this film. Joan's scenes were also cut out by the director, Hall Bartlett, and Joan wrote him a letter chastising him for doing so. McBain must simply have been angry and chose the easy target to blame.

[@johnflynn9619]

Diane was a Great Actress.

[@ToughXArmy69]

Diane McBain had a great "entrance" in "Parrish" anyone who has seen the movie will verify the scene. Her eyes in that scene are mesmerizing. Diane starred in Claudelle Inglish, Black Gold, and co starred in Mary Mary with Debbie Reynolds and two great Troy Donahue movies Parrish -with the legendary Claudette Colbert! and. A Distant Trumpet. Diane left WB when she refused a small part in Natalie Wood's Sex And The Single Girl. Richard Quine directed that movie and he was the great Director at Columbia who made all those lushly romanic Kim Novak movies. Diane should have stayed with the Wood movie. Quine may have enhanced her role nay WB. film. I met Diane McBain's son a Los Angeles Policeman. Great Officer

[@hziegler]

Diane McBain looks so beautiful in anything she did on the screen.

[@daveroache7753]

This was filmed in 1997.

[@VisualTedium]

That's a classy woman, wow

[@mikepowers9265]

Diane would be reunited with Van Williams her co-star on Surfside 6 when both of them would guest star on the Batman TV show. Van as Britt Reid & Bruce Lee as Kato were appearing as crossover guest stars on Batman from their Green Hornet series.

[@SuperHartline]

In 1970 something I acted at the Glendale Center Theatre where Diane was discovered, and Connee Stevenson was discovered there too. I won a Willie, their Oscar.

[@HarryandCarlyle]

Is Connie Stevens any relation to Connee Stevenson or are they two different people? Btw, how's your Willie doing these days?

[@peggylopez2475]

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[@debra13]

When was this taped/filmed?

[@marymary68ify]

Carole Lynley and Diane McBain resembled. Unfortunately Carole Lynley looks awful today and Diane Mcbain is still beatiful

[@11rokerito]

Love Joan 💕

[@gonecountry64]

Never realized Martin Short’s hilarious, Jiminy Glick character, was based on a real person. However, the vocal inflection, mannerisms and annoying habit of interrupting are all dead giveaways.

[@MRDINGLEBARRYNWO]

Does anyone know when this interview was done?

[@wandahoward2624]

Refreshing to hear someone I'm very quiet.

[@thebahana]

I bet she regrets Five The Hard Way AKA The Sidehackers. Don't watch that if you're a fan of hers.

[@garrettmeadows2273]

That interviewer is insufferable.

[@johnnymfan5065]

The interviewer is the most annoying ever

[@1957MCL]

As annoying as the interviewer is (the battle of the blondes) he at least gets her to open up beyond the usual platitudinal comments. Still, he's rather in your face, back off man fer Chrissakes.

[@tubagee]

Thats interesting that she admits shes in a progeam .

[@teeniebeenie8774]

alwys liked her,,,,,still a b3eauty

[@freelancefreddie]

And then they end the show with the graphics over her face!!! The crew the staff awful

[@freelancefreddie]

This guy was the worst interviewer ever on any channel in any market. How he kept getting all these old celebrities to come on his show is a mystery. If it were not for wanting to see these past stars I would turn him off in 60 seconds.

[@Garsons-oq4lh]

McBain is such a liar saying Crawford fixed it so her scenes were cut - wrong Diane, Crawford did no such thing. To give some insight according to a January 15, 1963 letter from Joan to director Hall Bartlett, "There is no rhyme nor reason for my performance in 'The Caretakers', since you have eliminated my scene with McBain, and all cuts and looks that I played subtly to indicate my attraction for Stack. Cutting the scene where McBain accuses of me of being in love with Stack was drastic beyond belief; and my one big scene of trying to sell Herbert Marshall on my old-fashioned ideas was the crux of my performance. Anyone could have played my part as it stands now. I'm heartsick beyond belief." *Courtesy of The Concluding Chapter Of Crawford*

[@1bol390]

maybe she didn't know of the letter

[@SenorZorrozzz]

I like her a lot, but this interview isn’t very interesting, except her comments on Joan Crawford.

[@Garsons-oq4lh]

McBain isn't even right with her comment about Joan fixing it so her scenes were cut. In fact it was the director Hall Bartlett who was responsible.

[@johnnymfan5065]

Is Skip Lowe still alive? This must have been about 20 years ago. Was he gay?

[@mr.balloffur]

Her book was full of embellishments and flat out lies.

[@johnnymfan5065]

It sounds like she is telling the truth about Crawford.

[@11rokerito]

@@johnnymfan5065 Crawford never had power over that movie to throw her out of the movie. So all truth is not ...

[@Muirmaiden]

@@11rokerito Maybe that was what she thought.

[@Muirmaiden]

You didn't live her life.

[@elizabethperry3458]

Elephant in the room!! I have never heard of this woman! Who is she? Some B actress. I know who Joan Crawford is!! Maybe Crawford saw something she did not like in her. Insincerity, "I was from Glendale, so innicent."

[@kathleenmerwin4184]

Fur??? Really?? None of these jerks had any kind of conscience or morals. Cruel much???

[@gonecountry64]

Skip E Lowe’s obituary at www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/skip-e-lowe-dead-talk-735285/amp/ says he was The inspiration for Martin Short’s Jiminy Glick character.