Flora Foster Explained

Flora Foster
Birth Place:	Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Death Date:	September 21, 1914
Death Place:	Chicago, Illinois
Occupation:	Actress
Years Active:	1911–1914
Relatives:	Edna Foster (sister)

Flora Foster was an American actress known for her roles in films during the silent film era.

Biography

Flora Foster was born in Boston to Anne Louise Ramsell Foster and Conrad Houteling Foster. Conrad Foster was a theater owner in Chicago and eventual mayor of Traverse City, Michigan.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

She worked with the Biograph Company and the Thanhouser Company.^{[5] [6]} She had roles in at least several films; she played young David in David Copperfield (1911).^[7]

Her sister, Edna Foster, was also a child actress. They both worked in vaudeville. Foster attended boarding school in New York near Biograph's studios while their father remained in Chicago.

Foster's favorite stage actress was Maude Adams. She and her sister both enjoyed working with D.W. Griffith and Harry Carey. She had grey eyes and blonde hair.^[8]

Foster died of heart failure in Chicago on September 21, 1914.^[9]

Selected filmography

• David Copperfield (1911)
• Prince Charming (1912)
• The District Attorney's Conscience (1912)
• The Wedding Gown (1913)

Notes and References

1. News: October 18, 1914 . Miss Flora Foster . 61 . Chicago Tribune . May 24, 2023.
2. Book: Horak, Laura . Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908–1934 . February 26, 2016 . Rutgers University Press . 9780813574844 . en.
3. Web site: April 3, 1940 . Former Traverse City Mayor Dies . August 31, 2019 . The Herald-Press . en.
4. Web site: Who Was Con Foster? . May 24, 2023 . Traverse City News & Events.
5. Web site: Foster, Flora . May 24, 2023 . Thanhouser Company.
6. Book: Motion Picture Story Magazine . 1913 . Macfadden-Bartell. . en.
7. Book: Laird, Karen E. . The Art of Adapting Victorian Literature, 1848-1920: Dramatizing Jane Eyre, David Copperfield, and The Woman in White . March 3, 2016 . Routledge . 978-1-317-04450-5 . en.
8. July 4, 1914 . Biograph Kids Are Wonderful Girls: Chicago Exhibitor's Daughters . . 3–4.
9. News: November 4, 1914 . Obituary for Flora Foster . 5 . The Sacramento Star . May 24, 2023.