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Jobyna Howland is a Actor American born on 31 march 1880 at Indianapolis (USA)

Jobyna Howland

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Birth name Jobyna Howland
Nationality USA
Birth 31 march 1880 at Indianapolis (USA)
Death 7 june 1936 (at 56 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Jobyna Howland (March 31, 1880 – June 7, 1936) was an American stage and screen actress. Born to a Civil War veteran named Joby Howland who at eleven was one of the youngest enlistees in the conflict, and his wife Mary C. Bunting, she was given the feminine version of her father's name. Tall, regal and beautiful, Howland was another model for Charles Dana Gibson's famous sketching The Gibson Girl. Howland made her first appearance on the New York Stage in 1899 managed by Daniel Frohman. During her long theatrical career she apprenticed everything from drawing room farces to musical comedies always seeming to play the other woman, a best friend's pal or a distant cousin. She didn't achieve the kind of stardom of other beautiful actresses such as Elsie Ferguson, but was content to play the amiable and much needed support so vital in numerous Broadway productions.

In film she appeared in a scant few silent pictures alas in that medium could not use her booming, direct and distinct voice. When talkies became popular they were more to her calling. She typically played the kind of roles she had mastered on the stage, the domineering but dependable support. Fortunately for film buffs Howland now in her 50s took to talkies better than she had silents and left several examples of the kind of performances she had become famous playing in the theatre. Her appearances in the comedies of Bert Wheeler & Robert Woolsey are some of her best known as the films of those two comedians lapsed into the public domain and were shown on late night television on numerous occasions in many markets for years.

Howland was married once to Arthur Stringer (married 1900) but the marriage didn't last and was dissolved. As far as is known she bore no children. For many years up to the end of her life she was purportedly in a lesbian relationship with famed Broadway playwright Zoë Akins.

She was found dead on the kitchen floor of her home in 1936. Police said death apparently was caused by heart disease.

Her brother was character actor Olin Howland.

Usually with

Fred Fleck
Fred Fleck
(2 films)
William LeBaron
William LeBaron
(3 films)
Robert Woolsey
Robert Woolsey
(3 films)
David Selznick
David Selznick
(3 films)
Walter Catlett
Walter Catlett
(3 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Jobyna Howland (16 films)

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Topaze
Topaze (1933)
, 1h18
Directed by Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays, Escroquerie
Actors John Barrymore, Myrna Loy, Jobyna Howland, Albert Conti, Frank Reicher, Luis Alberni
Roles Baroness Hortense de La Tour-La Tour
Rating66% 3.342483.342483.342483.342483.34248
Prof. Auguste A. Topaze (John Barrymore), is an honest professor facing the reality and dishonesty of the world after he is taken advantage of by a baron's business dealings.
The Cohens and Kellys in Trouble
The Cohens and Kellys in Trouble (1933)
, 1h9
Directed by George Stevens
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Charles Murray, Maureen O'Sullivan, Andy Devine, Jobyna Howland, Maude Fulton, Frank Albertson
Roles Queenie Truelove
Rating20% 1.045891.045891.045891.045891.04589
Kelly's daughter falls for a revenue agent, and his divorced wife is after alimony.
Meet the Baron
Meet the Baron (1933)
, 1h8
Directed by Walter Lang
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Jimmy Durante, Edna May Oliver, Zasu Pitts, Ted Healy, Moe Howard, Bess Flowers
Roles (uncredited)
Rating55% 2.7593352.7593352.7593352.7593352.759335
A couple of bunglers (Jimmy Durante and Jack Pearl) are abandoned in the jungles of Africa by Baron Munchausen. A rescue team mistake Pearl for the missing Baron, and take the two of them back to America where they receive a hero's welcome.
The Story of Temple Drake
The Story of Temple Drake (1933)
, 1h10
Directed by Stephen Roberts
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Miriam Hopkins, Jack La Rue, William Gargan, Irving Pichel, Elizabeth Patterson, Guy Standing
Roles Miss Reba
Rating70% 3.540813.540813.540813.540813.54081
Temple Drake, a frivolous young woman from a prominent Mississippi family, is raped and forced into prostitution by Trigger, a backwoods bootlegger, after Trigger shoots and kills a boy who tries to protect her. Another backwoodsman is charged with the murder. When Temple tries to leave Trigger, he becomes angry and is apparently about to assault her, so she grabs his pistol and shoots him, then flees back home to her family. An idealistic lawyer eventually persuades Temple to tell the truth about the first murder on the witness stand and save the defendant's life, even though her testimony will disgrace herself. According to Pre-Code scholar Thomas Doherty, the film implies that the deeds done to her are in recompense for her immorality.
Big City Blues
Big City Blues (1932)
, 1h3
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Joan Blondell, Humphrey Bogart, Eric Linden, Jobyna Howland, Ned Sparks, Guy Kibbee
Roles Mrs. Serena Cartlich
Rating60% 3.047073.047073.047073.047073.04707
Bud Reeves is an innocent young man who once lived in a small town. After inheriting money, he moves to New York City where he meets his cousin Gibby. He introduces him to chorus girl Vida Fleet, who he falls in love with. Troubles start to come when they decide to throw a party where a woman is killed after accidentally being hit on her head. Bud and Vita try to escape from the police and after arresting everybody, the real killer is soon revealed. Bud immediately goes back to his home in Indiana, but wants to go back to New York to marry Vida.
Rockabye
Rockabye (1932)
, 1h8
Directed by George Cukor, George Fitzmaurice
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Constance Bennett, Joel McCrea, Paul Lukas, Walter Pidgeon, Jobyna Howland, Walter Catlett
Roles 'Snooks' Carroll
Rating57% 2.857612.857612.857612.857612.85761
When stage actress Judy Carroll testifies on behalf of her former lover, accused embezzler Al Howard, she loses custody of Elizabeth, an orphan she had planned to adopt. Her devoted manager Antonie "Tony" de Sola urges her to travel to Europe with her alcoholic mother Snooks to alleviate her emotional pain. While there she reads a play entitled Rockabye, which eerily resembles recent events in her life. Despite Tony's qualms, she is determined to star in a Broadway production.
Silver Dollar
Silver Dollar (1932)

Directed by Alfred E. Green
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Edward G. Robinson, DeWitt Jennings, Bebe Daniels, Robert Warwick, Aline MacMahon, Russell Simpson
Roles Poker Annie
Rating62% 3.1465453.1465453.1465453.1465453.146545
Kansas farmer Yates Martin (Edward G. Robinson) uproots his uncomplaining wife Sarah (Aline MacMahon) and baby son to 1876 Colorado in search of gold. He buys a claim, then immediately abandons it when two prospectors tell him of a strike in Leadville. Taking Sarah's prudent advice, he sets up a store there. To her dismay, however, he stakes miners in return for partnerships in their diggings. Just as the Martins run out of money and decide to return to Kansas, prospectors Rische and Hook show up with the news that they have struck it rich, not with gold but with silver, and Yates has a third share of it.
The Cuckoos
The Cuckoos (1930)
, 1h37
Directed by Paul Sloane
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Lee, June Clyde, Hugh Trevor, Ivan Lebedeff
Roles Fannie Furst
Rating60% 3.001913.001913.001913.001913.00191
Professor Bird (Woolsey) and his partner, Sparrow (Wheeler), are a pair of charlatan fortune tellers who are bankrupt and stranded at a Mexican resort just south of the border. An heiress, Ruth Chester (June Clyde), appears, who is running away from her aunt, Fanny Furst (Jobyna Howland). She is in love with an American pilot, Billy Shannon (Hugh Trevor), but her aunt wishes her to marry the European nobleman, The Baron (Ivan Lebedeff), whom the aunt believes is the "right" type of person for her niece.
Dixiana
Dixiana (1930)
, 1h40
Directed by Luther Reed, Fred Fleck
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Bebe Daniels, Joseph Cawthorn, Bert Wheeler, Jobyna Howland, Robert Woolsey, Bill Robinson
Roles Mrs. Birdie Van Horn
Rating52% 2.6141852.6141852.6141852.6141852.614185
Dixiana Caldwell and her friends, Peewee and Ginger, are circus performers in the antebellum South. When Dixiana falls in love with a young Southern aristocrat, Carl Van Horn, she leaves the circus where she is employed and, with Peewee and Ginger, accompanies Carl to his family's plantation in order to meet Van Horn's family. At first thrilled with the news of their impending nuptials, Carl's father and stepmother, Cornelius and Birdie Van Horn, throw a lavish party for the couple. However, Peewee and Ginger inadvertently disclose Dixiana's background as a circus performer, creating a scandal for the elder Van Horns.
Hook, Line and Sinker
Hook, Line and Sinker (1930)
, 1h12
Directed by Edward F. Cline, Fred Fleck
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Robert Woolsey, Bert Wheeler, William B. Davidson, Stanley Fields, Ralf Harolde, Hugh Herbert
Roles Mrs. Rebecca Marsh
Rating59% 2.950672.950672.950672.950672.95067
Two fast-talking insurance salesmen — Wilbur Boswell and J. Addington Ganzy — help penniless socialite Mary Marsh to turn a dilapidated hotel, which was willed to her, into a thriving success. They soon run into trouble, however, in the form of two sets of rival gangsters who want to break into the hotel safe; also, Mary's mother, Rebecca Marsh, wants her to marry wealthy lawyer John Blackwell, although Mary has fallen in love with Wilbur. And while she takes an instant dislike to Wilbur, Rebecca falls for Ganzy. Adding to the complications is the fact that Blackwell is actually in league with the gangsters. The finale involves nighttime runarounds and a shoot-out in the hotel. During the pitched battle between the rival gangs and the police, Boswell and Ganzy save the jewels, after which Ganzy marries Rebecca, and then gives away Mary at her marriage to Wilbur.
The Virtuous Sin
The Virtuous Sin (1930)
, 1h20
Directed by George Cukor, Louis Gasnier
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Walter Huston, Kay Francis, Kenneth MacKenna, Paul Cavanagh, Jobyna Howland, Oscar Apfel
Roles Alexandra Stroganov
Rating55% 2.760362.760362.760362.760362.76036
Marya is the wife of medical student Victor Sablin, who finds it impossible to deal with military life when he is inducted into the Russian army during World War I. With her husband is sentenced to death by firing squad due to his insubordination, Marya offers herself to General Gregori Platoff in order to save him. When the two unexpectedly fall in love, Victor — not caring that his life has been spared — threatens to kill his rival. His determination to eliminate the general falters when Marya confesses she is not in love with her husband — and never was.