Diane J. McBain

 Diane J. McBain (May 18, 1941 – December 21, 2022)

She was best known for playing an adventurous socialite in the 1960–1962 television series Surfside 6 and as one of Elvis Presley's leading ladies in 1966's Spinout. McBain also guest-starred on four episodes of ABC’s Batman, first as a hat shop assistant who’s in cahoots with David Wayne’s Mad Hatter in 1966. She played a stamp company queen who had a thing for pink in the live adaptation of "Batman" from 1966 until 1967. In her first film, McBain appeared with Richard Burton in Vincent Sherman’s Ice Storm (1960), then starred alongside Troy Donahue and Claudette Colbert in Delmer Daves’ campy Parrish (1961) and as the title character, a farm girl who meets a tragic end, in Claudelle Inglish (1961). Later, she appeared in episodes of hit shows like Hawaii Five-O, Charlie's Angels, Dallas, Days of Our Lives and Knight Rider. Her last credited role was in 2001’s Strong Medicine. McBain died from liver cancer on the morning of December 21, 2022, at the Motion Picture Country Home in Los Angeles, California, where she had lived for a number of years. She was 81.