Phoebe Foster

Phoebe Foster

Known for

Acting

Born

July 9, 1895

Birthplace

Center Harbor, New Hampshire, USA

Died

June 1, 1975 (aged 79)

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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 Car...

Best known work

Dinner at Eight
Dinner at Eight
1933
Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina
1935
Our Betters
Our Betters
1933
Tarnished Lady
Tarnished Lady
1931
The White Angel
The White Angel
1936
O'Shaughnessy's Boy
O'Shaughnessy's Boy
1935
The Night Angel
The Night Angel
1931
Grounds for Murder
Grounds for Murder
1930
An Honorable Cad
An Honorable Cad
1919

Filmography

  1. 1936

    The White Angel

    as Elizabeth Herbert

  2. 1935

    O'Shaughnessy's Boy

    as Girl on Camel in Parade

  3. 1935

  4. 1933

    Dinner at Eight

    as Miss Alden

  5. 1933

    Our Betters

    as Princess

  6. 1931

    The Night Angel

    as Theresa Masar

  7. 1931

    Tarnished Lady

    as Germaine Prentiss

  8. 1930

  9. 1919

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