Susanna Foster

Turhan Bey, Susanna Foster, Boris Karloff in The Climax

Actress-singer Susanna Foster, who was featured in The Phantom of the Opera and several other 1940s Universal productions and whose adult life was plagued by alcoholism and mental illness, died of heart failure at the Lillian Booth Actors Home in Englewood, N.J., on Jan. 17. She was 84.
Born in Chicago (on Dec. 6, 1924), Foster came to Hollywood in the 1930s. According to reports, MGM signed her when she was 12, but dropped her not long thereafter. (Reports also claim that MGM offered her the lead in National Velvet, but Foster refused the role because there would be no singing. If the story is true, MGM took forever [...]

by Andre Soares | January 20, 2009   
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