Phoebe Foster
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Phoebe Foster has worked as an American actress, and the public account of her work stops at the credits. What the public record holds is 7 credits. She has a role in 'Dinner at Eight', credited as Miss Alden. The name shows up again in 'Anna Karenina'. Drama is the territory she has worked in most often.
Phoebe Foster
7 Movies
Phoebe Foster has worked as an American actress, and the public account of her work stops at the credits. What the public record holds is 7 credits. She has a role in 'Dinner at Eight', credited as Miss Alden. The name shows up again in 'Anna Karenina'. Drama is the territory she has worked in most often.
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Is Phoebe Foster still alive?
Phoebe Foster passed away on June 1, 1975 at age 79.
What are the most famous roles of Phoebe Foster?
Phoebe Foster is best known for roles in Dinner at Eight, Anna Karenina, Our Betters.
How many movies has Phoebe Foster been in?
Over a 56-year career (since 1919), Phoebe Foster has appeared in 7 movies and 0 TV shows.
What was Phoebe Foster's first movie?
The career of Phoebe Foster began with An Honorable Cad (1919).
What is Phoebe Foster's most recent movie or series?
Phoebe Foster's most recent release is The White Angel, which premiered on June 25, 1936.
Phoebe Foster
1895-07-09 · Center Harbor, New Hampshire, USA
Phoebe Foster (born Angeline Egar; July 9, 1896 - June 1975) was an American theater and film actress.
Foster studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She began appearing on Broadway in 1914, starting with a production of Roi Cooper Megrue's Under Cover. Her subsequent Broadway appearances included The Cinderella Man (1916), Three's a Crowd (1919), Captain Applejack (1921), The Jazz Singer (1925), and Topaze (1930).
After appearing in a couple of short films, in 1931 she made her feature film debut in George Cukor's Tarnished Lady alongside Tallulah Bankhead. That same year she also appeared in Edmund Goulding's The Night Angel with Nancy Carroll and Fredric March. In 1933, she was in the comedies Our Betters and Dinner at Eight, both directed by Cukor. Two years later she appeared in the Tolstoy adaptation Anna Karenina with Greta Garbo. In 1935 she also returned to Broadway for the brief run of Living Dangerously. In 1936 she had her first stage appearance in London, starring in a production of Night of January 16th. Foster's last movie was The Gorgeous Hussy in 1936. Her final Broadway production was American Landscape (1938).
Personal life
Foster was born in 1896 as Angeline Egar (possibly Eager) in Center Harbor, New Hampshire. She was the daughter of Arthur and Emily Egar.
Foster married millionaire Harold LeRoy Whitney, heir to an ironworks fortune, on September 12, 1927. Whitney had divorced his previous wife just days before. The couple kept the marriage secret for several days before the press discovered it. They filed for divorce in 1943. Phoebe Foster died in 1975 in Boston, Massachusetts.