Jennifer Howard (actress)
| Jennifer Howard | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Clare Jenness Howard March 23, 1925 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | December 14, 1993 (aged 68) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Resting place | Tyringham Cemetery, Tyringham, Massachusetts |
| Occupation | Actress, artist |
| Years active | 1948–1980 |
| Spouse(s) |
Mortimer Halpern Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. (1950–1968; divorced) John Ery Coleman (1972–1993; his death) |
Jennifer Howard (March 23, 1925 – December 14, 1993) was an American stage and film actress active between the mid-1940s and early 1960s. Howard 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.
Clare Jenness Howard was born in New York, the daughter of dramatist Sidney Howard and stage and screen actress Clare Eames. She was a great-niece of the American soprano opera singer, Emma Eames and great-granddaughter of William Thomas Hamilton, a governor of Maryland.
In 1930, Howard’s mother died in Britain and the following year her father married Polly Damrosch, a daughter of the German-born American conductor and composer, Walter Damrosch. Howard lost her father nine years later in a tractor mishap on their farm near Tyringham, Massachusetts. Howard graduated from Milton Academy and attended classes at Barnard College and in May 1946 married Mortimer Halpern, a one-time actor known as “Morty Halpern” who became a Broadway stage and production manager. At the time of their marriage Howard was an actress with the Theatre Guild Shakespeare Repertory Company where Halpern was the stage manager. The marriage was short-lived, and in August 1950 she married film producer Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.. The couple would go on to have four children, including business executive Francis Goldwyn, actor Tony Goldwyn and studio executive, John Goldwyn. This marriage ended in divorce some sixteen years later.
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 A Winter's Tale at the Cort Theatre between January and February 1946. She was Penny In the modest success, The Fatal Weakness by George Kelly, that ran for 119 performances over the 1947–1948 season at Manhattan's Royale Theatre (today the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre). In September 1947, Howard became one of the founding members of the Actors Studio. One year later, she played Vanilla in the short-lived Studio production Sundown Beach by Bessie Breuer at the Belasco Theatre. In November of the following year, Howard played Louise Ulmer in Love Me Long, a comedy by Doris Frankel that had a run that lasted about a fortnight at the 48th Street Theatre.Love Me Long was directed by Brock Pemberton who also directed the 1921 play Swords, which began her parents' Broadway careers.
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