Claiborne Foster
Toronto Daily Star, April 13 1936
Claiborne Foster (1896-1981) was an actress whose first Broadway stage role was The Blue Bird in 1910. She appeared in many Broadway productions between 1913 and 1931. (Interestingly enough, her Internet Broadway Database entry lists her year of birth as 1900.)
She was married and widowed three times. Her first husband, a naval lieutenant, died in the 1918 flu pandemic. Her second husband, Maxwell Rice, passed away in 1943, and her third husband passed away in 1978.
Her Wikipedia page, at the time that I write this, contains the following entry on the plane crash described above: "In 1936, Foster survived a fatal plane crash in Trinidad." Of course, the writer meant to say that others had perished in the crash that she survived, but still.
Created October 17, 2025.