john travolta accepting emmy for diana hyland
//window.requestAnimationFrame(function() { Things got even more real than that when Diana starred in the 1976 TV movie The Boy in the Plastic Bubble, which starred John Travolta then en route to superstar status thanks to his co-starring roles in the TV series Welcome Back, Kotter (1975 to 1979) and the film version of Carrie (1976), with Saturday Night Fever about a year away. Diana Hyland (born Diane Gentner; January 25, 1936 March 27, 1977)[1] was an American stage, film and television actress. No, Travolta was linked to Diana Hyland who played Tods mother in the film. @media screen and (min-width: 1024px){ Career. Travolta's first loss came in 1977 when Diana Hyland died due to breast cancer. var woof_overlay_skin = "default"; Interestingly, her next role was as an older woman Fonzie falls for on Happy Days (1977). e.tabh = e.tabh===undefined ? for (var i in e.rl) if (e.gw[i]===undefined || e.gw[i]===0) e.gw[i] = e.gw[i-1]; "John Travolta Lost Girlfriend Diana Hyland to Breast Cancer Decades Before Kelly Preston's Death", Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Diana_Hyland&oldid=1129383412, Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie Primetime Emmy Award winners, Short description is different from Wikidata, All Wikipedia articles written in American English, Articles with unsourced statements from December 2021, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Comedy or Drama Special, Episode: "Stop the Parade! jQuery(document).trigger('woof_ajax_done'); 0 : e.tabw; You really should. The Peyton Place star, Diana Hyland, played his on-screen mother and would become one of the greatest influences in Johns life. Tragically, Travolta has been here before. The two remained together until Diana died of cancer at the age of 41. The Peyton Place star, Diana Hyland, played his on-screen mother and would become one of the greatest influences in John's life. And it contains this cutting gem that would make Blanche Devereaux proud: "My agents told me I'd never work on TV, that I wasn't photogenic. try { Although Travolta had his share of playing both the good guyand the bad guy in many movies throughout the years, the actor said thathe still has one more dream role to achieve.