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Suzanne DeLee Flanders Larson (known professionally as Susanna Foster) (December 6, 1924 – January 17, 2009) was an American film actress best known for her leading role as Christine in the 1943 film version of The Phantom of the Opera. Foster was born in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She was taken to Hollywood at the age of twelve by MGM, who sent her to school and groomed her for an acting and singing career. Two of her classmates at this school were Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland. She claimed the high point of being at MGM was meeting her idol Jeanette... MORE

Suzanne DeLee Flanders Larson (known professionally as Susanna Foster) (December 6, 1924 – January 17, 2009) was an American film actress best known for her leading role as Christine in the 1943 film version of The Phantom of the Opera. Foster was born in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She was taken to Hollywood at the age of twelve by MGM, who sent her to school and groomed her for an acting and singing career. Two of her classmates at this school were Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland. She claimed the high point of being at MGM was meeting her idol Jeanette MacDonald and Clark Gable, who treated her like "the Queen of England." Foster was originally slated to star in the MGM production of B Above High C, a film that was never made. The movie's title referred to the top of her vocal register. MGM offered her the lead in National Velvet, which she declined because there "wasn't any singing in it". This in part, led to MGM dropping her. It later would become Elizabeth Taylor's breakthrough role. After hiring agent Milo Marchetti, Foster was signed by Paramount Pictures where she began to study voice for the first time with Marchetti's sister Gilda. She soon LESS