Diana Millay

Broadway In 1957, Broadway came calling and Millay starred opposite Sam Levene and Ellen Burstyn in Fair Game. Her subsequent Broadway appearances include Drink to Me Only opposite Tom Poston, Roger the Sixth opposite Alan Alda, The Glass Rooster opposite Michael Allinson and Boeing Boeing After that, one of Millay's early roles on television was being the timekeeper on Masquerade Party in 1956. She continued to appear in other "live" productions such as Robert Montgomery Presents, Kraft Television Theatre, Studio One, The United States Steel Hour, Omnibus, Pond's Theater, The Philco Television Playhouse, Playhouse 90, and many others. She made three guest appearances on the CBS courtroom drama series Perry Mason, starring Raymond Burr. In 1961, she played Debra Bradford in "The Case of the Resolute Reformer," and title character and defendant Sue Ellen Frazer in "The Case of the Unwelcome Bride." In 1963, she played murder victim Eula Johnson in "The Case of the Bouncing Boomerang".

Millay's filmed television credits include guest star roles on most of the major shows that were running during the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, including Stagecoach West, Father Knows Best, The Tab Hunter Show, My Three Sons, The Americans, Gunsmoke (as title character in the sixth season episode "Melinda Miles" in 1957), Bonanza, The Virginian, Arrest and Trial, 77 Sunset Strip, Rawhide, Tales of Wells Fargo, Wagon Train, Laramie, Route 66, Hawaiian Eye, The Rifleman, Thriller, Maverick (in the episode "Dodge City or Bust" with Jack Kelly and a brief appearance by Roger Moore), The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, Dobie Gillis, Sam Peckinpah's The Westerner, and The Man from U.N.C.L.E.. Millay made three television pilots for prospective new television series, Slezak and Son, Boston Terrier, and Las Vegas Beat.

In 1962, Millay was chosen as "Miss Emmy" because of her extensive appearances on primetime TV shows. She went on to appear in sixty-two episodes,

Millay died in 2021, at the age of 86.