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Sally Blane Facts
| Sign | Cancer |
| Born |
Jul 11, 1910 Salida, CO |
| Died |
Aug 27, 1997 Los Angeles, CA |
| Age | Died at 87 |
| Total Facts | 9 |
All four sisters appeared in The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939).
Aunt of Judy Lewis and Christopher Lewis, sister-in-law of Grant Withers, half-sister-in-law of Ricardo Montalban.
Half-sister Georgiana Young, the youngest, married Ricardo Montalban.
Mother of Robert Foster who, from 1975 to 1978, played the role of Grimsley, the vampire-mortician horror host of "Fright Night With Grimsley," on Channels 9 (then KHJ-TV) and 5 (KTLA) in Southern California.
One of her biggest Hollywood disappointments was losing the major role of Paul Muni's fiancée Helen in I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) which was played by actress Helen Vinson.
She first met her husband Norman Foster while he was courting her sister Loretta. They reconnected in England in 1935 at a dinner party given by Colleen Moore. Sally had been working in England for about a year.
She was a close friend of singer and actor Russ Columbo and was at his bedside when he died after a freak gun accident in 1934.
Sister of Polly Ann Young and Loretta Young, half-sister of Georgiana Young.
Sister-in-law of Jean Louis.