Diana Douglas, the first wife of Kirk Douglas and mother of Michael Douglas, has died at 92.
She died of cancer at a motion picture industry retirement home in Los Angeles' Woodland Hills neighbourhood, according to an obituary from Michael Douglas's production company, Furthur Films.
It cited Diana Douglas's husband of 15 years, Donald Webster, of Washington DC.
Born Diana Love Dill in Bermuda, where her family had lived for centuries and her father was attorney general, she later moved to New York and met Kirk Douglas while they were studying at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
She later went to California on a $200-a-week contract with Warner Bros against Kirk Douglas' advice that she try for Broadway instead.
She went on to have a six-decade career as an actress and model, appearing in dozens of movies and television episodes, including the 1987 Steve Martin film Planes, Trains And Automobiles and the TV shows ER and The West Wing.
She also played stage roles, including some on Broadway.
In May 1943, she appeared on the cover of Life magazine, modelling spring fashions.
"Kirk Douglas, by then serving in the Navy during the Second World War, saw her on the cover and told his shipmates he would marry her," the obituary said.
They wed that November and went on the have two sons, Michael and Joel, before divorcing in 1951.
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