Phoebe Foster (born Angeline Egar; July 9, 1896 – June 1975) was an American theater and film actress.

Career

Foster studied at the

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. 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), ''

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'' (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 ''

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'' 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)Sources differ as to whether the family name was spelled 'Egar' or 'Eager'. in

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. She was the daughter of Arthur and Emily Egar. Foster married millionaire Harold LeRoy Whitney, heir to an

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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.

Credits

Broadway

*1914: ''Under Cover'' *1915: ''Under Fire'' *1915: ''Back Home'' *1916: ''The Cinderella Man'' *1917: ''The Lassoo'' *1917: ''The Gipsy Trail'' *1918: ''By Pigeon Post'' *1919: ''First is Last'' *1919: ''Three's a Crowd'' *1921: ''Toto'' *1921: ''

'' *1924: ''Garden of Weeds'' *1924: ''High Stakes'' *1925: '' The Jazz Singer'' *1926: ''The Donovan Affair'' *1927: ''Interference'' *1929: ''Scotland Yard'' *1929: ''The Amorous Antic'' *1930: ''Topaze'' *1930: ''That's the Woman'' *1930: ''The Truth Game'' *1931: ''Cynara'' *1935: ''Living Dangerously'' *1938: ''Bachelor Born'' *1938: ''American Landscape''

Film

*1919: ''An Honorable Cad'' (Short) *1930: ''Grounds for Murder'' (Short) *1931: '' Tarnished Lady'' as Germaine Prentiss *1931: ''

'' as Theresa Masar *1933: '' Our Betters'' as Princess *1933: '' Scarlet River'' as Phoebe Foster (uncredited) *1933: '' Dinner at Eight'' as Miss Alden *1935: '' Anna Karenina'' as Dolly *1935: '' O'Shaughnessy's Boy'' as Girl on Camel in Parade (uncredited) *1936: '' The White Angel'' as Mrs. Elizabeth Herbert *1936: '' The Gorgeous Hussy'' as Emily Donaldson (uncredited) (final film role)

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Foster, Phoebe 1896 births 1975 deaths 20th-century American actresses Actresses from New Hampshire American film actresses American stage actresses People from Center Harbor, New Hampshire