Diana Gibson

Biography

American leading lady, born Rosemary LaBie in Chicago, Illinois, and educated at Our Lady of Loretto Academy. Diana came equipped with some stage training (from a stint with Chicago's Goodman Theatre) and had won several beauty contests before moving to Los Angeles as a high fashion model. She also posed for commercial artists. Before long, she was noticed by talent scouts and spent most of the 1930s as a minor starlet at Universal and RKO. Unfortunately, her one leading role was in what some regard as John Wayne's worst-ever film, Adventure's End (1937), effectively short-circuiting Diana's career. She made several more films until exiting stage right to become a bigger fish in a smaller pond, as Mrs. Rosemary Schropp (wife of John Jack Schropp), resident of Mount Gretna, Pennsylvania, where she performed to great acclaim in such local stage productions as 'Tillie the Mennonite Maid'.