Personal Life
Foster was married to Claudette Colbert from 1928 until their divorce in 1935. In October 1935, he wed actress Sally Blane, an older sister of Loretta Young. He and Sally had their first child in June 1936 named Gretchen after her sister Loretta Young, they also had a son named Robert.
He died in 1976 from cancer in Santa Monica, aged 72. He and Blane are interred in Culver City's Holy Cross Cemetery.
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