- Although she was semi-retired and living in New York in 1971, Paramount offered her the role of Anthony Perkins' wife in Play It As It Lays (1972). She returned to Los Angeles in preparation for her role, but suffered a fatal stroke before filming began.
- Retired for the most part in 1970 to become the director of GO (Travel) Agency in Manhattan, but died a year later at age 45, just nine days after suffering a stroke.
- In the late 1960s she operated "GO," a travel agency situated at a Bonwit Teller store in New York City.
- Starred with the late Gail Russell in the highly popular Our Hearts Were Young and Gay (1944), in which she played writer Emily Kimbrough and Russell played close friend and author Cornelia Otis Skinner. Both Kimbrough and Skinner would outlive their 20-odd-years younger screen actresses playing them.
- According to Laura Wagner's article on Diana in "Films of the Golden Age" (Winter 2013/2014 issue), Diana also played piano for a couple of movies and albums but eventually let that enormous talent slip away. One summer, the actress claims, she broke her arm and just never started back again.
- Gore Vidal is godfather to one of her children.
- Proved to be a critically praised Broadway performer. She followed Barbara Bel Geddes in the title role in "Mary Mary" to acclaim, and starred in both new plays and comedies as well as revivals.
- Her accomplishments as a pianist were evident in her early Hollywood days when she made several important recordings, including George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue".
- Upon her death, her remains were interred at the Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest in New York City.
- She was the niece of composer, arranger and conductor Robert Armbruster.
- Her father, Louis William Loehr, was a prosperous oil company exec and her mother, the former Eartha Thes, an accomplished pianist and teacher who guided Diana's early musical career. By age 12, the young prodigy was playing with the Los Angeles Junior Symphony Orchestra.
- Her second husband, Mortimer Hall, the son of New York Post publisher Dorothy Schiff, was once married to actress Ruth Roman. Stepson: Richard Roman Hall, born November 12, 1952, in Los Angeles County, California. Son: Matthew W. Hall, born July 6, 1958, born Los Angeles County, California. Daughter: Dorothy Theresa "Dolly" Hall, born April 26, 1960, in Los Angeles County, California. Daughter: Maryaman M. "Mary" Hall, born July 2, 1962, in Los Angeles County, California. Daughter: Margaret A. Hall, born in Los Angeles County, California, on August 6, 1964.
- Playwright Mart Crowley wrote "The Boys in the Band" while house sitting for his friend Lynn who had gone to Europe with her husband.
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