Susanna Foster Dies
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Susanna Foster, who starred opposite Claude Rains in the 1943 version of “Phantom of the Opera,” died Saturday in Englewood, N.J. She was 84.
Her death, at the Lillian Booth Actors’ Home, was announced by Dale Olson, a publicist.
Ms. Foster made only a dozen movies, but she was very popular in the early 1940s. She got a contract with MGM at 12 on the strength of her singing, then moved to Paramount, where at 14 she made her film debut in “The Great Victor Herbert” (1939).
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Michael Evans survives her, along with two grandchildren. According to comments by Michael on a Web site about his family, his mother struggled for decades with alcoholism and mental illness. She made only one more movie, “Detour,” a remake of a 1940s noir thriller, in 1992.
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