Diane Ladd was part of a star-studded ensemble cast in this classic noir film. The film follows the story of Jake Gittes, played by Jack Nicholson, who is a private investigator, and is entangled in a fabric of lies and deception when a woman who poses as Evelyn hires him to look into her husband's infidelity.

Diane Ladd, the Mississippi-born film actress who shaped her air of eccentricity and steely determination into wildly different characters over a career of more than six decades, died on Monday in Oj...

Per a statement via the Hollywood Reporter on Monday: "My amazing hero and my profound gift of a mother, Diane Ladd, passed with me beside her this morning, at her home in Ojai, Ca.