Phoebe Foster

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

Career

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. 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: Captain Applejack 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: The Night Angel 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)