Diana Bourbon Explained

Diana Bourbon
Other Names:Diana Hunt, Diana Hillson (after marriage)
Birth Name:Ruth Hunt
Birth Date:August 28, 1900
Birth Place:New York City
Death Date:March 19, 1978
Death Place:Los Angeles, California
Occupation:Writer, actress, producer

Diana Bourbon (born Ruth Hunt; August 28, 1900 – March 19, 1978) was an American actress, journalist, producer, director, and writer. She wrote for The New York Times from 1923 to 1927.

Early life

Diana Bourbon was born Ruth Hunt in New York City, the daughter of John Wesley Hunt and Mary Ellen Hunt. Her father was a newspaper editor. She studied ballet, and was educated in Paris, and at Oxford University.[1] As a young woman in World War I, she drove an ambulance and worked in a canteen.[2] [3]

Career

Bourbon began her career as a stage actress,[4] and appeared in one Broadway show, in the original cast of John Galsworthy's Loyalties (1922–1923).[5] [6] She also starred in Edith Millbank's Tancred in London in 1923.[7] Later in life, she returned to the stage in Los Angeles, in Music in the Distance (1960).[8]

Bourbon wrote articles for The New York Times from 1922 to 1927, usually on cultural topics while she was based in London and Paris,[9] [10] [11] [12] such as a 1924 interview with Emma Goldman in exile,[13] a 1924 interview with Amelita Galli-Curci about feminism,[14] and a 1926 interview with H. G. Wells, in which he speculates on the century ahead.[15] She also wrote for Cosmopolitan,[16] and Harper's Bazaar.[17]

Bourbon was a writer, producer, and director in radio,[18] including Burns and Allen's Hollywood Hotel, the game show Double or Nothing (1940–1954),[19] the drama anthology The Campbell Playhouse (1940),[20] [21] the comedy The Judy Canova Show (1943–1944), Club Fifteen (1947–1953), and the soap operas Brenda Curtis (1939–1940) and Life Begins (1940).[22] [23] She also acted on radio, in The Vanishing Lady (1957).[24]

For the screen, she co-wrote Born That Way (1936), and co-wrote the stories adapted as Atlantic Adventure (1935) and Roaming Lady (1936). She had three television acting credits, for roles in episodes of Thriller (1961), The Fugitive (1963), and Mission: Impossible (1968).

Personal life

Bourbon married English writer and editor K. Norman Hillson in 1928; they later divorced. She died in 1978, aged 77 years, in Los Angeles.[25]

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Kelling. Vesta. 1941-06-22. Dynamic Diana Bourbon Keeps Radio's Soap and Soup Serial Dramas Always Humming. 34. Fort Worth Star-Telegram. 2021-09-02. Newspapers.com.
  2. News: 1941-02-01. Woman Director was Actress, War Ambulance Driver. 24. Harrisburg Telegraph. 2021-09-02. Newspapers.com.
  3. News: 1919-09-28. American Girl Wears Beautiful Gown at Royal Presentation. 8. San Francisco Chronicle. 2021-09-02. Newspapers.com.
  4. https://books.google.com/books?id=0Znzn0FJObwC&q=Bourbon&pg=RA3-PA45 "In Striking Successes of the Season"
  5. Web site: Diana Bourbon. 2021-09-02. Playbill. en.
  6. Web site: Bourbon. Diana. February 15, 1923. Acting Doesn't Require Brains. live. 2021-09-02. Maclean's The Complete Archive. en-US. https://web.archive.org/web/20210902213409/https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1923/2/15/acting-doesnt-require-brains . 2021-09-02 .
  7. News: July 17, 1923. 'Tancred' Acted in London. 14. The New York Times. ProQuest.
  8. News: 1960-03-04. 'Distance' Play Winds Sunday. 9. Valley Times. 2021-09-02. Newspapers.com.
  9. News: Bourbon. Diana. 1924-11-23. Aged Empire Builder is Almost an American; Sir Bradford Leslie, Who Has Passed 93, Constructed Indian Railways and Many Bridges -- His Father, a Famous Artist, Was Born in This Country. en-US. The New York Times. 2021-09-02. 0362-4331.
  10. News: Bourbon. Diana. 1926-01-10. The Tiger Plays Demosthenes; Although He Denies the Allegation, Some Frenchmen Hold That Clemenceau in His New Book Has Drawn a Self-Portrait, Reproaching His Enemies Indirectly and Picturing France Today. en-US. The New York Times. 2021-09-02. 0362-4331.
  11. News: Bourbon. Diana. 1925-08-09. First Woman Wins Grand Prix de Rome for Canvas; Odette Pauvert, 22, Parisian Artist, Has Captured Coveted Award With Picture Displaying Mystical Imagination and Grasp of Portraiture. en-US. The New York Times. 2021-09-02. 0362-4331.
  12. News: Bourbon. Diana. 1927-04-10. England Hunts by Motor; Ancient Traditions of Riding to Hounds Are Rudely Jarred by Crowds of Autoists. en-US. The New York Times. 2021-09-02. 0362-4331.
  13. News: Bourbon. Diana. December 7, 1924. Emma Goldman Weary of Bolshevism. XX5. The New York Times. ProQuest.
  14. News: Bourbon. Diana. 1924-03-09. Galli-Curci Deplores Feminism; Singer Pleads for Return of Old-Fashioned Womanhood -- Says Home Makers Wield Greatest Power. en-US. The New York Times. 2021-09-02. 0362-4331.
  15. News: Bourbon. Diana. 1926-06-06. Wells Looks Ahead One Hundred Years; Century of Struggle at Hand, Says British Writer, Between the Unified World Idea and Persistent And "Suicidal" Nationalism -- He Foresees New and Great Groupings of Mankind. en-US. The New York Times. 2021-09-02. 0362-4331.
  16. News: Marshall. Marguerite Mooers. 1928-11-29. The Woman of It. 16. The News Tribune. 2021-09-02. Newspapers.com.
  17. News: 1931-08-24. Lack Clan Spirit. 6. The Tampa Times. 2021-09-02. Newspapers.com.
  18. News: Donnell. Darrell. 1937-02-10. Woman Produces Radio Shows; Diana Bourbon Star in 3 Different Fields. 11. The San Francisco Examiner. 2021-09-02.
  19. Book: Terrace, Vincent. Radio Programs, 1924-1984: A Catalog of More Than 1800 Shows. 2015-09-02. McFarland. 978-1-4766-0528-9. 103. en.
  20. Web site: 2011-11-06. The Campbell Playhouse. live. 2021-09-02. Pumpkin FM-Old Time Radio. en-GB. https://web.archive.org/web/20201204174652/https://pumpkinfm.com/the-campbell-playhouse/ . 2020-12-04 .
  21. News: 1940-12-06. Miss Bourbon in Action. 6. The Gazette. 2021-09-02. Newspapers.com.
  22. Book: Dunning, John. On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio. 1998-05-07. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-977078-6. 207, 294. en.
  23. Web site: July 1, 1940. Diana Bourbon directs the radio serial Life Begins for CBS Radio. live. 2021-09-02. Getty Images. en-us. https://web.archive.org/web/20210902213408/https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/diana-bourbon-directs-the-radio-serial-life-begins-for-cbs-news-photo/603215572 . 2021-09-02 .
  24. Web site: Vanishing Lady, The. live. 2021-09-02. RUSC. https://web.archive.org/web/20210902213408/https://www.rusc.com/old-time-radio/Vanishing-Lady.aspx?id=26763 . 2021-09-02 .
  25. April 10, 1978. Deaths. Broadcasting. 109.

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