Dana Hill – Passed Away

Born Dana Goetz, Dana Hill was a child actress who got famous for her role in National Lampoon’s European Vacation. Her father used to direct commercials which helped her get in the industry at a very young age. Dana was a promising athlete who could have gotten in college with a full scholarship, but she was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes which prevented her from making a career in sports. She avoided her father’s last name and used her mother’s so that people won’t complain that she used her father’s name to get work. She made a name for herself with her performance in the movie Fallen Angel. At the age of only 32, she died from a diabetic stroke.