Alice Howell (born Alice Florence Clark; May 20, 1886 – April 12, 1961)[1] was a silent film comedy actress from New York City. She was the mother of actress Yvonne Howell.
Biography
Early reviews of her movies describe her as "the scream of the screen". One reviewer likened her to a "sort of
Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., and Max Linder." All this was compressed into "one more or less diminutive package of femininity". Sometimes called "the girl Charlie Chaplin", she worked for Mack Sennett and later L-KO Kompany. Her early comedies were often produced by Universal Pictures
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Career
Alice Howell in 1920
At Mack Sennett's Keystone Film Company, Howell quickly worked her way up from crowd scenes to featured parts in shorts such as Charlie Chaplin's
Howell's film career continued into the sound-movie era with a role as a mute servant of the master murderer in the motion picture The Black Ace (1933).
^Slide, Anthony. Silent Players: A Biographical and Autobiographical Study of 100 Silent Film Actors and Actresses. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2002. p. 185.
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