

" Besides acting and modeling, Webber was also a belly dancer and dancing teacher. She appeared as herself in the obscure 1962 Russ Meyer nudie cutie short "This Is My Body. Playboy Playmate of the Month February 1956 (as Marguerite Empey). She married Joe Webber in 1955 and was discovered by the same man who discovered the young Marilyn Monroe. Webber was the Playmate of the Month in the May 1955 and February 1956 issues of "Playboy" magazine. In addition, she also was featured on the cover photos for the music albums "Sea of Dreams" by Nelson Riddle and "Jewels of the Sea" by Les Baxter. An avowed nudist, Diane appeared on the covers of many publications that endorsed the "naturist" lifestyle. " Among the noted glamor photographers she posed for are Bunny Yeager, Russ Meyer and Peter Gowland. With her lovely face and exceptionally toned, shapely and voluptuous 39C-23-37 figure, hypnotically sensual presence and large natural breasts, Diane was a popular pin-up girl of the 1950s and 1960s, doing pictorials for and/or gracing the covers of such men's magazines as "Frolic," "Escapade," "Adam," "Beau," "Jem," "Tiger," "Modern Sunbathing," "Mermaid," "Monsieur," "Fling," "American Nudist," "Rogue," "Nugget," and "Esquire.

Diane worked as a chorus girl and took formal ballet training. She was the daughter of writer/producer Arthur Guy Empey and his wife Marguerite Andrus.

