Nina Foch born Nina Consuelo Maud Fock April 20 1924 December 5 2008 was a Dutch American actress After signing a contract with Columbia Pictures at age 19 Foch became a regular in the studios horror pictures and films noir before establishing herself as a leading lady in the mid1940s through the 1950s often playing roles as cool aloof sophisticates Her career spanned six decades consisting of over 50 feature films and over 100 television appearances