Suzanne DeLee Flanders Larson Net Worth is $2 Million
Suzanne DeLee Flanders Larson Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Susanna Foster was brought to Hollywood at the age of 12 by MGM, who sent her to school and groomed her for a singing and acting career.Two of her classmates in school were Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland. Oddly enough, MGM never used her, and she was signed by Paramount in 1939, where she made The Great Victor Herbert (1939). William Randolph ...
[in a 1963 interview] I thought I was Jeanette MacDonald, my idol. When I looked in the mirror, that's who I was. I did not see me. When I first saw myself on the screen in The Great Victor Herbert (1939), I thought, "Oh my God, I'm not Jeanette MacDonald!" I was so disappointed. I never liked myself on the screen.
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I was never really ambitious. At least not in the cutthroat way that's required to succeed. The truth is that I hated a career and everything that went with it.
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Her unique ability to easily render B above high C was often lost among filmgoers, even though properly exploited by Universal's musical department, who rearranged her songs in order to feature it.
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Never met one of her singing idols, Nelson Eddy, the whole time she was at MGM, then finally got to work with him in Phantom of the Opera (1943). Later Eddy, a sculptor, did an original bust of Susanna. He also tried to persuade her to do a concert tour with him after "Phantom", but she was still young, developed cold feet and politely declined.
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Started her film career at MGM in 1937 when the studio had just let Deanna Durbin go. She had just gotten over a serious case of pneumonia about six months before.
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Relocating to Manhattan, she trained herself and found work as a receptionist for several Wall Street firms and an answering service operator.
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Her son Philip was named in honor of England's Prince Philip. In 1985 he lapsed into a hepatic coma (liver failure) on the family's living room floor and died three days later in a Los Angeles (Van Nuys) Hospital. Her surviving son, Michael eventually brought her back to the East Coast, where she spent the last years of her life living in various nursing homes. She died at age 84 at The Lillian Booth Actor's Home in Englewood, New Jersey, where she had been residing since 2003.
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Foster walked out of her marriage to opera baritone Wilbur Evans, citing the reason that she was no longer in love with him. She later struggled in raising her two children and sometimes lived in dire poverty.
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Was guest soloist for the White House Press Photographer's Ball with President Harry Truman and former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt in attendance.
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She abruptly quit the film business in 1945 in order to rescue her two younger teenage sisters from their abusive alcoholic mother. She sold her mink coat and rented Jean Arthur's house for them on the Monterrey peninsula for a time.
Signed by MGM, she was handed the lead in National Velvet (1944), which she declined because there "wasn't any singing in it". This led to MGM's decision to drop her. The role went to young Elizabeth Taylor who became a star as a result.
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Noteworthy if only for her attendance at the "great unveiling" of Claude Rains in Universal's Technicolor Phantom of the Opera (1943). She was found living in a car in 1982.
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
Detour
1992
Evie
That Night with You
1945
Penny Parker
Frisco Sal
1945
Sally Warren
Bowery to Broadway
1944
Peggy Fleming Barrie
The Climax
1944
Angela Klatt
This Is the Life
1944
Angela Rutherford
Follow the Boys
1944
Susanna Foster (uncredited)
Top Man
1943
Connie Allen
Phantom of the Opera
1943
Christine DuBois
Star Spangled Rhythm
1942
Susanna Foster (uncredited)
Glamour Boy
1941
Joan Winslow
The Hard-Boiled Canary
1941
Toodles LaVerne
The Great Victor Herbert
1939
Peggy
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Frisco Sal
1945
"Beloved" / performer: "Beloved", "Good Little, Bad Little Lady", "Silent Night", "Hark the Herald Angels Sing", "Come All Ye Faithful"
This Is the Life
1944
performer: "L'amour, toujours, l'amour", "With a Song in My Heart", "Open Thy Heart", "Ciri-Biri-Bin", "It's the Girl" - uncredited
Phantom of the Opera
1943
performer: "LULLABY OF THE BELLS", "MARTHA Act III, opera excerpt", "AMOUR ET GLOIRE" - uncredited
Glamour Boy
1941
performer: "Love Is An Old Fashioned Thing", "The Magic of Magnolias"
$2 Million
