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Dyan Cannon is an award-winning film and television actress, director, screenwriter, editor, and producer. Cannon made her screen debut in 1960 in The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond; however, her small screen debut was in a late 1950s role as Mona Elliott in the CBS drama, The Reporter. She also made appearances on 77 Sunset Strip, the perennial western series Gunsmoke, The Untouchables, and the syndicated Two Faces West. In 1969, Cannon starred with an ensemble cast led by Natalie Wood in Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice, a film about sexual revolution in which she played Alice. She received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the film, as well as two Golden Globe nominations. She also received a Best Actress Golden Globe nomination for Such Good Friends (1971). In addition, she became the first Oscar-nominated actress to be nominated in the Best Short Film, Live Action Category for Number One (1976), a project which Cannon produced, directed, wrote, and edited. In 1978, Cannon starred in Revenge of the Pink Panther. That same year, she appeared opposite Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, and James Mason in Heaven Can Wait. This performance earned her a second Oscar nomination and also won her a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. In the 1980s, Cannon, who is also a singer/songwriter, appeared in Honeysuckle Rose (1980) with Willie Nelson, Deathtrap (1982) with Christopher Reeve and Michael Caine, andCaddyshack II (1988), and starred in several TV movies. In the 1990s, she appeared on the popular television shows Diagnosis Murder and The Practice, as well Ally McBeal as a semi-regular. She made appearances in films such as That Darn Cat (1997), 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag (1997), Out to Sea (1997) with the duo Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon, and Kangaroo Jack (2003). She also starred on the short-lived sitcom Three Sisters (2001-2002). In 2005 she appeared in Boynton Beach Club, a movie about aging Floridians who have

"[Cannon's] candid memoir chronicles the near fairy tale May-December romance between the ing?nue and the legendary star."--Los Angeles Times