Jennifer Howard (actress)
Jennifer Howard | |
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Los Angeles, California, U.S. | |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1948–1980 |
Spouse(s) | Mortimer Halpern (m. 1946; div. 19??) |
Children | William Thomas Hamilton (great-grandfather) |
Jennifer Howard (born Clare Jenness Howard; March 23, 1925 – December 14, 1993) was an American stage and film actress active between the mid-1940s and early 1960s. She appeared in a number of classic television shows during the American Golden Age of Television and was also an accomplished watercolor and acrylic artist. She was the daughter of the playwright and screenwriter Sidney Howard and first wife of Hollywood producer Samuel Goldwyn Jr.
Early life
Clare Jenness Howard was born on March 23, 1925, in New York City, the daughter of dramatist
In 1930, Howard's mother died in London, and the following year, her father married Polly Damrosch, a daughter of the German-American conductor and composer Walter Damrosch. Howard lost her father nine years later in a tractor mishap on their farm near Tyringham, Massachusetts.[3][4]
Howard graduated from
Career
Howard began in theatre, appearing in four Broadway productions during the latter half of the 1940s. She played the 1st lady in a revival of Shakespeare's
Howard played The Nurse in
Howard appeared in at least four films: Return to Peyton Place (1961) as Mrs. Jackman (uncredited), All Fall Down (1962) as Myra (uncredited), House of Women (1962) as Addie Gates, and The Chapman Report (1962) as Grace Waterton.
Later life and death
On July 28, 1972, Howard married the American artist John Ery Coleman in Los Angeles,[12] with whom she remained until his death at the age of 69 on April 25, 1993. Howard died that December in Los Angeles at the age of 68 after battling lung cancer.[citation needed]
Selected filmography
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1958) (Season 3 Episode 24: "The Foghorn") as Nun
References
- ^ Broadway by Jack O'Brian; The Zanesville Signal (Zanesville, Ohio); February 5, 1947; p. 11; Ancestry.com
- ^ Clare Aemes, Actress, Dies in England. Hartford Courant (Hartford, Connecticut); November 9, 1930; Ancestry.com
- ^ 1930 US Census; Polly B. Damrosch; Manhattan, New York; Ancestry.com
- ^ Famed Writer Fatally Hurt. The Hagerstown Daily Mail (Hagerstown, Maryland); August 24, 1939; p. 4; Ancestry.com
- ^ Miss Howard, Actress, Bride. The Berkshire County Eagle (Berkshire, Massachusetts); May 8, 1946; p. 23; Ancestry.com
- ^ Marriages. Billboard May 18, 1946; p. 92; col. 4; accessed October 6, 2012.
- ^ Miss Howard Is Engaged to Movie Producer. The Berkshire Evening Eagle (Berkshire, Massachusetts); July 21, 1950; p. 8; Ancestry.com
- ^ Clare Jenness Coleman; California Death Index, December 14, 1993, Los Angeles-March 23, 1925, New York, Ancestry.com
- ISBN 0-02-542650-8.
Others [selected by Kazan] were Tom Avera, Edward Binns, Dorothy Bird, Rudy Bond, Annette Erlanger, Don Hanmer, Anne Hegira, Peg Hillias, Jennifer Howard, Robin Humphrey, Alicia Krug, Michael Lewin, Pat McClarney, Lenka Peterson, Warren Stevens, Joe Sullivan, and John Sylvester.
- ^ Jennifer Howard Internet Broadway Database accessed October 5, 2012
- ^ The Living Theatre. Long Beach Press Telegram (Long Beach, California); November 5, 1949; p. 11
- ^ California Marriage Index 1960–1985; Ancestry.com
External links
- Jennifer Howard at IMDb
- Jennifer Howard at the Internet Broadway Database