Time really snuck up on me with that one. I still think of her has the perpetual ingenue.
Diane was the beautiful, innocent love interest in a host of 1980’s genre pics. Bill and Ted saved her from the Royal Ugly Dudes. The devil cajoled her in the Garden of Eden, in a film called Second Time Lucky. Our hero tried hard to seduce her in Better Off Dead. Our hero lost, then won, then sadly lost her again in The Last American Virgin.
After some time off to enjoy normal life, she recently wrote a memoir entitled “Diane Franklin: The Excellent Adventures of the Last American, French Exchange Babe of the 80s,” and has now apparently resumed full-time acting, IMDb shows her in three flicks in either 2019 or 2018, and she will be in another that has not yet posted its cast at IMDb. One of the flicks is a new Amityville film, which is fitting because Diane was in Amityville II almost 40 years ago. (Gasp!) Another of her new films, the one for which IMDb does not yet list a cast, is called This Gets Ruff, and will be directed by her daughter!
Sigh.
Diane Franklin’s daughter is a seasoned show-biz pro.