Signed "With Best Norman Foster"
Actor and Director. Born Norman Hoeffer in Richmond, Indiana, he made
his Broadway debut in 1926 and arrived in Hollywood at the beginning of
the talkie era, playing light leads in such films as "Love at First
Sight" with Suzanne Keener (1930), "It Pays to Advertise" with Carole Lombard & Louise Brooks (1931), "Smilin' Through" with Norma Shearer (1932),
and "State Fair" with Janet Gaynor & Lew Ayres (1933). In 1936 Foster started directing programmers at
Fox, including several entries in the "Mr. Moto" and "Charlie Chan"
series, and went on to make several interesting, offbeat features, among
them "Journey into Fear" (1942), "Rachel and the Stranger" with Robert Mitchum & William Holden (1948),
"Kiss the Blood Off My Hands" with Burt Lancaster & Joan Fontaine (1948), "Woman on the Run" with Ann Sheridan (1950), and
"Navajo" (1952). He later directed for TV. Foster was married to actress
Claudette Colbert from 1928 to 1935, and to actress Sally Blane from
1935 until his death.