Nina Foch Articles

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 [...]

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 [...]