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Kathleen Howard is a Actor Canadienne born on 27 july 1884 at Ontario (Canada)
Kathleen Howard (July 27, 1884 - April 15, 1956) was a a Canadian-born American opera singer magazine editor and character actress from the mid-1930s through the 1940s. She spent her childhood in Buffalo, New York and is buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery there.
Howard was part of the repertory system in the opera houses of Metz and Darmstadt previous to World War I. She told of her life as an opera singer in an autobiography, Confessions of an Opera Singer (Knopf 1918).
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Kathleen Howard
Nationality Canada
Birth 27 july 1884 at Ontario (Canada)
Death 15 april 1956 (at 71 years) at Hollywood (USA)
Birth 27 july 1884 at Ontario (Canada)
Death 15 april 1956 (at 71 years) at Hollywood (USA)
Biography
She created the role of Zita in Giacomo Puccini's Gianni Schicchi at the Metropolitan Opera in 1918. She was also memorable as Amelia, the nagging, shrewish wife of W.C. Fields in It's a Gift (1934). She appeared in two other films of W.C. Fields: You're Telling Me! (1934) and Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935).Howard was part of the repertory system in the opera houses of Metz and Darmstadt previous to World War I. She told of her life as an opera singer in an autobiography, Confessions of an Opera Singer (Knopf 1918).
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Born to Be Bad (1950)
, 1h34Directed by Nicholas Ray
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir
Actors Joan Fontaine, Robert Ryan, Zachary Scott, Joan Leslie, Mel Ferrer, Harold Vermilyea
Roles Mrs. Bolton
Rating65%
Donna Foster works for publisher John Caine. She agrees to have his niece, Christabel, live with her in San Francisco while attending business school.
The Bride Goes Wild (1948)
, 1h38Directed by Norman Taurog, John Waters
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about writers
Actors Van Johnson, June Allyson, Jackie 'Butch' Jenkins, Hume Cronyn, Una Merkel, Arlene Dahl
Roles Aunt Susan
Rating62%
Cry of the City (1948)
, 1h35Directed by Robert Siodmak
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Themes Children's films
Actors Victor Mature, Richard Conte, Fred Clark, Shelley Winters, Betty Garde, Debra Paget
Roles Miss Pruett's Mother
Rating71%
Martin Rome (Richard Conte), a hardened criminal, is recuperating in a hospital from a shootout that leaves a police officer dead. At the hospital, he is briefly visited by his fiancée, Teena Ricante (Debra Paget). A shady lawyer representing another crook, Niles, (Berry Kroeger) claims that he participated in a jewel robbery with her in which a woman was killed. Rome is innocent of the jewel robbery, but the police suspect that he carried out the robbery in conjunction with Teena, and begin a search for her.
Cynthia (1947)
, 1h38Directed by Robert Z. Leonard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Elizabeth Taylor, George Murphy, Mary Astor, S.Z. Sakall, Gene Lockhart, Jimmy Lydon
Roles Mac McQuillan, Jannings' Nurse
Rating61%
The Late George Apley (1947)
, 1h36Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Ronald Colman, Peggy Cummins, Vanessa Brown, Richard Haydn, Richard Neill, Charles Russell
Roles Margaret
Rating69%
George Apley (Ronald Colman) is a stuffy, self-satisfied member of Boston's upper class, supremely confident of the superiority of his hometown. However, his comfortable, predictable world is overturned when he learns, to his horror, that both his son and his daughter have fallen in love with non-Bostonians. However, he is eventually brought around to see reason.
Curley (1947)
, 53minutesOrigin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about education
Actors Frances Rafferty, Billy Gray, Kathleen Howard, Peter Miles
Roles Aunt Martha
Rating57%
The very much appreciated young woman who was the previous teacher in Lakeview elementary school got married, and a substitute is appointed. School rascal William "Curley" Benson gather his classmates to make plans to get rid of their new teacher. They strongly suspect the substitute teacher to be half-mad eccentric, middle-aged Miss Johnson.
Centennial Summer (1946)
, 1h42Directed by Otto Preminger
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Historical, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Jeanne Crain, Cornel Wilde, Linda Darnell, Walter Brennan, William Eythe, Constance Bennett
Roles Deborah
Rating60%
The movie is about two sisters growing up in Philadelphia in the 1870s. They both fall for a Frenchman who has to prepare the pavilion for the Centennial exposition.
Mysterious Intruder (1946)
, 1h1Directed by William Castle
Origin USA
Genres Noir, Crime
Actors Richard Dix, Barton MacLane, Regis Toomey, Mike Mazurki, Pamela Blake, Charles Lane
Roles Rose Denning
Rating63%
Edward Stillwell, the aged proprietor of a music store, hires private detective Don Gale (Dix) to find Elora Lund, a then 14-year-old who vanished seven years ago at the time her mother died. Stillwell can only pay $100, but hints mysteriously that finding Lund could make Gale a rich man.
Eadie Was a Lady (1945)
, 1h7Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Ann Miller, Joe Besser, William Wright, Jeff Donnell, Jimmy Little, Marion Martin
Roles Aunt Priscilla Alden
Rating63%
Shady Lady (1945)
Directed by George Waggner
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Crime, Romance
Actors Charles Coburn, Robert Paige, Alan Curtis, Martha O' Driscoll, Kathleen Howard, James Burke
Roles Butch
Rating66%
Laura (1944)
, 1h28Directed by Rouben Mamoulian, Otto Preminger
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price, Judith Anderson, Dorothy Adams
Roles Ann's Cook Louise (uncredited)
Rating78%
New York City police detective Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) is investigating the murder of beautiful and highly successful advertising executive, Laura Hunt (Gene Tierney). Laura has apparently been killed by a shotgun blast to the face, just inside the doorway of her apartment, before the start of the film.
Crash Dive (1943)
, 1h46Directed by Otto Brower, Archie Mayo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, La bataille de l'Atlantique, Underwater action films, Submarine films, Political films, Children's films
Actors Tyrone Power, Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, James Gleason, May Whitty, Harry Morgan
Roles Miss Bromley
Rating63%
A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new executive officer, Lt. Ward Stewart (Tyrone Power), has been transferred back into submarines after commanding his own PT boat. At the submarine base in New London, Connecticut, he asks his new captain, Lt. Cmdr. Dewey Connors (Dana Andrews), for a weekend leave to settle his affairs before taking up his new assignment. On a train bound for Washington D.C., Stewart accidentally encounters New London school teacher Jean Hewlett (Anne Baxter) and her students. Despite her initial resistance to his efforts, he charms her and they fall in love.
Ball of Fire (1942)
, 1h51Directed by Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson, John Sherwood
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Crime, Romance
Actors Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oskar Homolka, Henry Travers, S.Z. Sakall, Richard Haydn
Roles Miss Bragg
Rating76%
A group of (mainly bachelor) professors have lived together for some years in a New York City residence, compiling an encyclopedia of all human knowledge. The youngest, Professor Bertram Potts (Gary Cooper), is a grammarian who is researching modern American slang. The professors are accustomed to working in relative seclusion at a leisurely pace with a prim housekeeper named Miss Bragg (Kathleen Howard) keeping watch over them. Their impatient financial backer Miss Totten (Mary Field) suddenly demands that they finish their work soon.
Take a Letter, Darling (1942)
, 1h32Directed by Mitchell Leisen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Rosalind Russell, Fred MacMurray, Macdonald Carey, Constance Moore, Robert Benchley, Cecil Kellaway
Roles Aunt Minnie
Rating67%
A struggling painter Fred MacMurray takes a job as private secretary to a tough female advertising executive Rosalind Russell. While working together to win the account of a tobacco company, they end up falling in love.
You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
, 1h37Directed by William A. Seiter
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Adolphe Menjou, Isobel Elsom, Leslie Brooks, Adele Mara
Roles Grandmother Acuña (uncredited)
Rating71%
Robert "Bob" Davis (Fred Astaire) is a well-known American dancer with a weakness for betting on the horses. After he loses his money gambling in Buenos Aires, he goes looking for a job with Eduardo Acuña (Adolphe Menjou), the wealthy owner of a nightclub. Acuña, however, does not wish to see him. Bob's friend, bandleader Xavier Cugat, invites him to perform at the wedding of Acuña's eldest daughter. Acuña insists his daughters must wed in order of age, from oldest to youngest. Maria (Rita Hayworth), who is next in line, is not interested in getting married, much to the dismay of Cecy and Lita, her two younger siblings, who have boyfriends they want very much to wed.