Diana Hyland. Actress: The Boy in the Plastic Bubble. Diana Hyland, a striking, knowing beauty with a confident air about her, was born Joan Diana Gentner on January 25, 1936, in Ohio and appeared on stage in summer stock, as a teen, before graduating from Cleveland Heights High School.

Diana Hyland was a TV actress who met Travolta on the set of The Boy in the Plastic Bubble in 1976. They fell in love and planned to move in together, but she passed away two weeks later at age 41.

In 1977, actress Diana Hyland, who the actor had been seriously dating for a year, died of the very same cause. "I thought I was in love before — but I wasn't," Travolta said in 1977.

Diana Hyland was an American TV, film, and stage actor. She was mostly known for her roles in TV productions. Diana initially used her birth name for her acting credits but later changed it on her agent’s insistence. She chose her mother’s maiden name as her stage moniker.

Decades before losing wife Kelly Preston to breast cancer, John Travolta mourned his girlfriend Diana Hyland, who died of the same disease. On Sunday, Preston died at age 57 following a secret...

How could it miss, with Dick Van Patten and Diana Hyland as parents Tom and Joan Bradford, with a cast that included a number of future teen idols? But what was completely unexpected was that Diana would lose a sudden and intense battle with cancer that would claim her life after only four episodes had been shot.

Diana Hyland was a TV actress who appeared in shows like The Twilight Zone, The Fugitive, and Marcus Welby, M.D. She also starred in a few films, such as The Chase, One Man's Way, and The Boy in the Plastic Bubble.

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LOS ANGELES, March 28 (AP)—Diana Hyland, who played a mother of eight in the ABC‐TV series “Eight Is Enough,” died yesterday at her home here. She was 41 years old. Miss Hyland, who had been...