What is "diane"

n. (given name female from=Latin). Popular in the middle of the 20th century.

Diane may refer to:

• Diane (given name)
• Diane, a name of the deity Artemis
• Hurricane Diane, a disastrous Atlantic hurricane during 1955
• Group Diane, a former special forces unit of the Belgian gendarmerie
• Steak Diane, a culinary dish
• Diane (film), a 1956 film starring Lana Turner
• Project DIANE, the Diversified Information and Assistance NEtwork, a U.S. videoconferencing based community service network
• Co-cyprindiol, an oral contraceptive marketed with the trade names Diane and Diane-35

Diane is a 1956 American historical film drama about the life of Diane de Poitiers, distributed by MGM, directed by David Miller, and produced by Edwin H. Knopf from a screenplay by Christopher Isherwood based on a story by John Erskine. The music score was composed by Miklós Rózsa, and Robert H. Planck was the cinematographer, who filmed in CinemaScope and Eastmancolor. The exceptionally lavish costumes were designed by Walter Plunkett.

The film stars Lana Turner, Pedro Armendáriz, Roger Moore, and Marisa Pavan, and features Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Torin Thatcher, Taina Elg, John Lupton, Henry Daniell, Melville Cooper and an early film appearance by Stuart Whitman. It was Turner's last film under her longtime MGM contract and thus marked another stage in the decline of the studio star system.

"Diane" is a song by Erno Rapee and Lew Pollack, originally written as a theme song for the 1927 silent movie Seventh Heaven. In 1928, The Nat Shilkret Orchestra had a hit with the song. The song appears (without lyrics) on the 1961 Miles Davis Quintet album Steamin', originally recorded in 1956. Instrumental version was recorded on March 22, 1962, for the LP There Is Nothing Like a Dame with Pete Candoli and Conte Candoli on trumpets, Shelly Manne on drums, John Williams on piano, Howard Roberts on guitar and Gary Peacock on bass.

Mario Lanza sang this song on radio, and his recording has been released in a compilation album from 1996, Be My Love. Sergio Franchi recorded this song on his 1963 RCA Victor Red Seal album Women in My Life.

The song was a popular single by Irish band The Bachelors, which was released on 25 January 1964 on the Decca label (Decca F11799) and produced by Shel Talmy. It reached Number 1 in the UK's Record Retailer chart (though not in the Pick of the Pops chart used by the BBC or the NME chart used by Radio Luxembourg). In the US, "Diane" was The Bachelors most successful single, peaking at number ten on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1964.

Jim Reeves also covered the song in the 1950s, and so did The Mudballs in the 1990s. Their recording has never been released officially though. Billy May and Vic Damone both covered this much-recorded standard.

The song title is sometimes mistakenly referred to as 'My Diane' or confused with The Beach Boys song " My Diane", which is a different song. Country singer Slim Whitman featured a version on his number #2 hit album Home on the Range.

"Diane" was originally recorded by US band Hüsker Dü for their Metal Circus EP in 1983. The song was written by drummer Grant Hart, and concerns the murder of West St. Paul waitress Diane Edwards by Joseph Ture in 1980.

Northern Irish metal band Therapy? covered the song and released it as a single on November 6, 1995 on A&M Records. The song is featured on the Infernal Love album. The single reached number 26 in the UK Singles Chart, and number 20 in the Irish Singles Chart. The single went Top 10 in many countries in Europe, winning an award for best single from Humo Magazine in Belgium. The single was released on CD, CD Digipack, CD Velvet Digipack, Red 7" Vinyl and Cassette.

Alternative spellings include Dianne, Dian, Diahann, Dyan and Dyane. See also Di and Diana

Diane or Diane, the Story of a Parisian'' or (German:Diane - Die Geschichte einer Pariserin'') is a 1929 German silent film directed by Erich Waschneck and starring Olga Tschechowa, Pierre Blanchar and Henry Victor.

The film's sets were designed by the art director Andrej Andrejew.

Diane is an album by trumpeter Chet Baker and pianist Paul Bley recorded in Denmark in 1985 and released on the SteepleChase label.