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Esther Howard is a Actor American born on 2 april 1892 at Helena (USA)

Esther Howard

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Nationality USA
Birth 2 april 1892 at Helena (USA)
Death 8 march 1965 (at 72 years) at Hollywood (USA)

Esther Howard (4 April 1892 – 8 March 1965) was a stage and film character actress who played a wide range of supporting roles, from man-hungry spinsters to amoral criminals, appearing in 108 films in her 23-year career.

Biography

D'abord actrice de théâtre, Esther Howard joue notamment à Broadway (New York) entre 1917 et 1929, dans cinq pièces, six comédies musicales et une revue. Citons la pièce L'Élévation d'Henri Bernstein (1917, avec Lionel Atwill et Alison Skipworth) et la comédie musicale Wildflower , sur une musique d'Herbert Stothart et Vincent Youmans (1923-1924, avec Charles Judels et Olin Howland).

Après ce passage à Broadway, elle poursuit sa carrière au cinéma (comme second rôle de caractère ou dans des petits rôles non crédités), avec cent-neuf films américains sortis entre 1930 et 1952, dont plusieurs réalisations de Preston Sturges.

Mentionnons Annie du Klondike de Raoul Walsh (1936, avec Mae West et Victor McLaglen), Les Voyages de Sullivan de Preston Sturges (1941, avec Joel McCrea et Veronica Lake), Adieu, ma belle d'Edward Dmytryk (1944, avec Dick Powell et Claire Trevor), Né pour tuer de Robert Wise (1947, avec Claire Trevor et Lawrence Tierney), ou encore Le Champion de Mark Robson (1949, avec Kirk Douglas et Marilyn Maxwell).

Esther Howard meurt à Hollywood en 1965, à 72 ans, d'une crise cardiaque.

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Esther Howard (64 films)

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Actress

No Man of Her Own, 1h38
Directed by Mitchell Leisen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes L'usurpation d'identité, Escroquerie
Actors Barbara Stanwyck, John Lund, Phyllis Thaxter, Lyle Bettger, Jane Cowl, Henry O'Neill
Roles Frowsy Woman in boardinghouse (uncredited)
Rating73% 3.693773.693773.693773.693773.69377
Helen Ferguson (Barbara Stanwyck) is eight months pregnant and unmarried. When she goes to her unfaithful boyfriend Morley for help, all he gives her is a train ticket back to where she came from.
Caged
Caged (1950)
, 1h36
Directed by John Cromwell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Prison films, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, Women in prison films
Actors Eleanor Parker, Agnes Moorehead, Ellen Corby, Hope Emerson, Betty Garde, Jan Sterling
Roles Grace (uncredited)
Rating75% 3.793933.793933.793933.793933.79393
A married 19-year-old, Marie Allen (Eleanor Parker), is sent to prison after a botched armed robbery attempt with her equally young husband, Tom, who is killed. While receiving her initial prison physical, she finds out that she is two months pregnant.
The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend, 1h17
Directed by Preston Sturges
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Action, Romance, Western
Themes Children's films
Actors Betty Grable, Cesar Romero, Rudy Vallée, Olga San Juan, Porter Hall, Hugh Herbert
Roles M Smidlap
Rating59% 2.9992252.9992252.9992252.9992252.999225
Hot-headed Winifred "Freddie" Jones (Betty Grable) is a saloon singer in the Old West who catches her boyfriend, gambler Blackie Jobero (Cesar Romero), flirting with another woman and takes a shot at him with the six-shooter she always carries. Unfortunately, she hits a Judge (Porter Hall) instead, so she and her friend Conchita (Olga San Juan) take it on the lam. When they get to a tiny hole-in-the-wall town, Freddie and Conchita are mistaken for the new schoolmarm and her Indian maid. They meet the local muckety-mucks, including wealthy Charles Hingelman (Rudy Vallee), owner of a valuable gold mine, who starts to romance Freddie. When Blackie shows up while tracking Freddie down, complications ensue.
Hellfire
Hellfire (1949)
, 1h30
Directed by R. G. Springsteen
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Marie Windsor, Wild Bill Elliott, Forrest Tucker, Jim Davis, H. B. Warner, Paul Fix
Roles Birdie
Rating66% 3.3334453.3334453.3334453.3334453.333445
Drifting gambler Zeb Smith promises a dying preacher who saved his life that he'll fulfill the preacher's lifelong goal to build a church.
The Lady Gambles, 1h39
Directed by Michael Gordon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir
Actors Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Preston, Stephen McNally, Edith Barrett, John Hoyt, John Harmon
Roles Gross Lady
Rating65% 3.2893353.2893353.2893353.2893353.289335
When his estranged wife Joan is found badly beaten after using loaded dice in a back-alley game, David Boothe looks back on how she came to this sorry state.
Champion
Champion (1949)
, 1h39
Directed by Mark Robson
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films, Le boxe anglaise
Actors Kirk Douglas, Marilyn Maxwell, John Arthur Kennedy, Ruth Roman, Paul Stewart, Lola Albright
Roles Mrs. Kelly
Rating72% 3.6420953.6420953.6420953.6420953.642095
The drama charts the story of Midge Kelly (Kirk Douglas), a boxer who pushes himself to the top of his game by knocking out opponents and back-stabbing friends. He has no qualms about deceiving the various females he encounters and he eventually double-crosses Tommy Haley (Paul Stewart), the manager who found him and helped pave his road to fame.
The Crooked Way, 1h30
Directed by Robert Florey
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Actors John Payne, Sonny Tufts, Ellen Drew, Rhys Williams, Percy Helton, John Doucette
Roles nosey hotel desk clerk
Rating65% 3.29453.29453.29453.29453.2945
After sustaining a head wound in combat, decorated World War II veteran Eddie Rice (John Payne) is treated at a San Francisco military hospital for a permanent form of amnesia. This leaves him with no knowledge of his life, family and friends prior to his enlistment, a void that the army intelligence unit was unable to fill as they couldn't find any information about him, other than the fact he enlisted in Los Angeles. Doctors tell him that no medical cure exists for his case, but that if he returns to Los Angeles he might run into people who know him and could help him fill in the blanks.
Homicide
Homicide (1949)
, 1h17
Origin USA
Genres Crime
Actors Robert Douglas, Helen Westcott, Robert Alda, Monte Blue, Warren Douglas, John Harmon
Roles Mrs. Brucker, Landlady
Rating62% 3.1397553.1397553.1397553.1397553.139755
June Bride
June Bride (1948)
, 1h36
Directed by Bretaigne Windust
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Films based on plays
Actors Bette Davis, Robert Montgomery, Betty Lynn, Fay Bainter, Tom Tully, Jerome Cowan
Roles Mrs. Mitchell
Rating67% 3.397933.397933.397933.397933.39793
Foreign correspondent Carey Jackson returns to New York City when his newspaper's Vienna office is closed and is offered a job on a women's magazine called Home Life. He accepts the position only because it will put him in daily contact with editor Linda Gilman, whom he once loved. Linda is averse to the idea because of his leaving her three years earlier, but agrees to hire him if he will keep their relationship on a strictly professional level.
The Velvet Touch, 1h40
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Rosalind Russell, Leon Ames, Leo Genn, Claire Trevor, Sydney Greenstreet, Frank McHugh
Roles Pansy Dupont
Rating67% 3.389483.389483.389483.389483.38948
Broadway leading lady Valerie Stanton (Russell), accidentally kills her producer and former lover, Gordon Dunning (Ames), during an argument about the direction her career should take. He expects her to sign for his next production, a typical frothy comedy for which he is known, while she wants to star in a revival of Hedda Gabler in order to prove her versatility as an actress.
Song of the Thin Man, 1h26
Directed by Edward Buzzell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians
Actors William Powell, Myrna Loy, Keenan Wynn, Dean Stockwell, Phillip Reed, Leon Ames
Roles Sadie (uncredited)
Rating68% 3.448033.448033.448033.448033.44803
A charity benefit sponsored by David Thayer is staged aboard the S.S. Fortune, Phil Brant's gambling ship. The entertainment is provided by a jazz band led by Tommy Drake and featuring singer Fran Page and talented but unstable clarinetist Buddy Hollis.
Wedlock Deadlock, 17minutes
Directed by Edward Bernds
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Joe DeRita, Christine McIntyre, Esther Howard, Dorothy Granger, Charles Williams
Roles Lydia - Betty's Mother
Rating63% 3.19963.19963.19963.19963.1996
Just as Eddie (Joe DeRita) and his bride Betty (Christine McIntyre) are getting settled into their new home, her irascible family comes to visit.
Born to Kill, 1h32
Directed by Robert Wise
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Noir, Crime
Actors Claire Trevor, Lawrence Tierney, Walter Slezak, Phillip Terry, Audrey Long, Elisha Cook, Jr.
Roles Mrs. Kraft
Rating71% 3.594853.594853.594853.594853.59485
Helen Brent (Claire Trevor) has just received a Reno divorce in Nevada. That night, she discovers one of her neighbors, Laury Palmer, and Palmer's gentleman caller both murdered in Palmer's home. The killer is Palmer's other boyfriend, Sam Wilde (Lawrence Tierney), an insanely jealous man who won't abide anyone "cutting in" on him.
Without Reservations, 1h47
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Claudette Colbert, John Wayne, Don DeFore, Anne Triola, Phil Brown, Frank Puglia
Roles Sarah (uncredited)
Rating64% 3.2475753.2475753.2475753.2475753.247575
Successful author Christopher "Kit" Madden (Claudette Colbert) travels to Los Angeles to work on the film adaptation of her best-selling book Here is Tomorrow. It is supposed to star Cary Grant as the hero Mark Winston and Lana Turner, but Grant has just dropped out and the producer thinks they need an unknown actor to play Winston. On a train to Hollywood Kit meets two Marines, Captain "Rusty" Thomas (John Wayne) and 1st Lieutenant "Dink" Watson (Don DeFore). She considers Rusty the best choice to play Mark Winston, but he is dismissive of her book: she wrote a political allegory and he does not believe Cary Grant would refuse Lana Turner for 400 pages. Unsure how he will react if he discovers she is a famous writer, she keeps her identity secret (saying her name is "Kitty Kloch"). During their journey across the country on trains, the trio end up in various comedic and dramatic situations. When Rusty finally learns the truth, he thinks that she has been using him just so he would be in the motion picture. Nonetheless, after a number of missteps, the couple eventually are able to resolve their differences.
A Letter for Evie, 1h29
Directed by Jules Dassin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Marsha Hunt, John Carroll, Hume Cronyn, Spring Byington, Pamela Britton, Norman Lloyd
Roles Mrs. Edgewaters
Rating69% 3.4856153.4856153.4856153.4856153.485615
New York city girl Evie O'Connor works as a secretary for the Trojan Shirt Co. in Brooklyn. She has her mind set on finding a tall, strong man to marry - one that can wear a Trojan shirt with a 16 1/2 neck size.