Meet the Focher

NINA FOCH

April 20, 1924 - December 5, 2008

A Friendly Reminder

Don't bore Nina!

Edith Head Gave Good Costume

Joan Fontaine, September Song (1950)

Nina Foch, You're Never Too Young (1955)

Vera Miles, Beau James (1957)

Marilyn Maxwell, Off Limits (1953)

Marilyn Maxwell, Rock-a-Bye Your Baby (1958)

Lucille Ball, The Facts of Life (1960)

A Class Apart

We love everything about Nina Foch. We love her classy-as-hell looks, her throaty voice, her obvious intelligence and opinionated manner. She's the poor man's Joan Fontaine, but without La Fontaine's early gallery of dithering, simpering ingenue roles to taint our perception of her. We are truly saddened to learn of her passing this Friday; we came across this lengthy, fascinating, prickly interview here. The then-82 year old Foch is exactly as we'd want her to be: brutally honest, fiercely intelligent, often challenging, but in the end -- she offers a mea culpa for being a difficult subject -- very much a class act.


NINA FOCH
April 20, 1924 - December 5, 2008