Highest rated movie: Dinner at Eight (1933)
Lowest rated movie: Anna Karenina (1935)
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Movies starring Phoebe Foster have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 69%.
Dinner at Eight - released in 1933 - is Phoebe Foster's highest rated movie, with a score of 72% based on 85 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Phoebe Foster is Anna Karenina - released in 1935 - with a score of 66% based on 46 reviews.
Phoebe Foster (born Angeline Egar; July 9, 1896 - June 1975) what is an American theatre 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 so 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, therefore, 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 1936. Her final Broadway production of what the 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.
Phoebe Foster has acted in films with May Robson, Harry Beresford, Lionel Barrymore and Basil Rathbone.
Phoebe Foster has worked with these film directors: George Cukor and Clarence Brown.
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