Nina Foch Tribute
Nina Foch, who died last December, will be remembered by USC’s School of Cinematic Arts with “A Tribute to Nina Foch” on Tuesday, April 14, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. "A Tribute to Nina Foch" will feature film clips as well as onstage remembrances with several of her colleagues, students, friends, and family.
The Dutch-born stage, film, and television actress, among whose motion picture credits are the B-noir classic My Name Is Julia Ross (1945), the Oscar-winning musical An American in Paris (1951), an her Oscar-nominated supporting turn in Executive Suite (1954), was also an acting coach and a senior faculty [...]
by Andre Soares | April 8, 2009
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Nina Foch
Nina Foch, best remembered as an acting teacher and for her role as Gene Kelly’s "sponsor" in the Oscar-winning MGM musical An American in Paris (1951), died of complications of long-term myelodysplasia, a blood disorder, on Friday, Dec. 5, at the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. Foch was 84.
According to the Los Angeles Times obit, Foch became ill Thursday while teaching "Directing the Actor" at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, where she had been teaching for 40 years. Among her former students are Randal Kleiser, Amy Heckerling, Edward Zwick, and Marshall Herskovitz.
She was born Nina Consuelo Maud Fock in Leiden, The Netherlands, on April 20, 1924 — her father was Dutch composer-conductor Dirk Fock; her mother was American [...]
by Andre Soares | December 7, 2008
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Tags: An American in Paris, Classic Movies, Executive Suite, Gene Kelly, Johnny O'Clock, My Name Is Julia Ross, Nina Foch, The Undercover Man