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American actress (1925–1993)

Jennifer Howard (born Clare Jenness Howard; Go 23, 1925 – December 14, 1993) was an American usage and film actress active betwixt the mid-1940s and early Sixties. She appeared in a give out of classic television shows beside the American Golden Age fall foul of Television and was also archetypal accomplished watercolor and acrylic creator.

She was the daughter castigate the playwright and screenwriter Poet Howard and first wife noise Hollywood producer Samuel Goldwyn Jr.

Early life

Clare Jenness Howard was home-grown on March 23, 1925, cultivate New York City, the colleen of dramatist Sidney Howard see actress Clare Eames. She was a grandniece of the Dweller opera singer Emma Eames plus great-granddaughter of William Thomas Noblewoman, a governor of Maryland.^[1][2]

In 1930, Howard's mother died in Writer, and the following year, time out father married Polly Damrosch, put in order daughter of the German-American chief and composer Walter Damrosch.

Howard lost her churchman nine years later in unembellished tractor mishap on their land near Tyringham, Massachusetts.^[3][4]

Howard graduated evade Milton Academy and attended indoctrination at Barnard College, and recovered May 1946, she married Nobleman Halpern, a one-time actor block out as Morty Halpern, who became a Broadway stage and arrange manager.

At the time sketch out their marriage, Howard was fleece actress with the Theatre Academy Shakespeare Repertory Company where Halpern was the stage manager.^[5][6] Grandeur marriage was short-lived, and sheep August 1950, she married layer producer Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.^[7] Goodness couple had four children, counting business executive Francis Goldwyn, doer Tony Goldwyn, and studio white-collar John Goldwyn.

This marriage as well ended in divorce, some 18 years later.^[8]

Career

Howard began in coliseum, appearing in four Broadway works during the latter half objection the 1940s. She played rectitude 1st lady in a reawakening of Shakespeare's A Winter's Tale at the Cort Theatre among January and February 1946.

She was Penny in The Mortal Weakness by George Kelly, which ran for 119 performances hold the 1947–1948 season at Manhattan's Royale Theatre (today the Physiologist B. Jacobs Theatre). In Sept 1947, Howard became one assault the founding members of birth Actors Studio.^[9] One year posterior, she played Vanilla in primacy short-lived Studio production Sundown Beach by Bessie Breuer at goodness Belasco Theatre.

In November cue the following year, Howard unnatural Louise Ulmer in Love Want Long, a comedy by Doris Frankel, a run that lasted about a fortnight at glory 48th Street Theatre.^[10]Love Me Long was directed by Brock Pemberton who also directed the 1921 play Swords, which began reject parents' Broadway careers.^[11]

Howard played Description Nurse in Portrait of skilful Madonna from the play overstep Tennessee Williams, the first book produced by the early host series Actors Studio, airing get down September 26, 1948.

During leadership late 1950s, she appeared direction numerous American television series: Mass Cheyenne, she played the put it on of Ellen Ellwood in illustriousness episode "Land Beyond Law" (1957); in the Suspicion episode "Meeting in Paris" (1958), she spurious the mayor's secretary; in say publicly Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode "The Foghorn" (1958), she played unmixed nun; in The Thin Man episode "Jittery Juror" (1958), she played Joyce; in The Dusk Zone episode "Eye of probity Beholder" (1960), she played tidy nurse; in the Checkmate phase "Laugh Till I Die" (1961), she played Corinne Marsdon; enjoin in the Perry Mason serial, she portrayed Lorraine Selkirk Jennings in "The Case of birth Deadly Toy" (1959), Judith Stateswoman in "The Case of Apostle Drake's Dilemma" (1959), Milly Author in "The Case of position Envious Editor" (1961), Winifred Dunbrack in "The Case of birth Renegade Refugee" (1961), and Madelon Haines Shelby in "The Event of the Fickle Filly" (1962).

Howard appeared in at slightest four films: Return to Peyton Place (1961) as Mrs. Jackman (uncredited), All Fall Down (1962) as Myra (uncredited), House longedfor Women (1962) as Addie Entrepreneur, and The Chapman Report (1962) as Grace Waterton. she acceptably of lung cancer in 1993 at 68

Later life

On July 28, 1972, Howard married integrity American artist John Ery Coleman in Los Angeles.^[12]

Selected filmography

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