Jobyna Howland (March , â€" June , ) was an American stage and screen
actress.Born to a Civil War veteran named Joby Howland (who at age
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.
Her brother was character actor Olin Howland. Tall, regal and
beautiful, red-haired Howland was one of several models for Charles
Dana Gibson's famous sketches of Gibson Girls.Howland made her first
appearance on the New York Stage in 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.She decided to try her luck in film
and moved to a Lloyd Wright (Frank Lloyd Wright, Jr.) bungalow in
Beverly Hills which was maintained by Hernando, a Navajo servant who
liked to sample Howland's makeup. She appeared in a few silent
pictures, but this medium did not seem to suit her booming, direct and
distinct voice. In sound films, she typically played the kind of roles
she had mastered on the stage, the domineering but dependable support.
Her appearances in the comedies of Bert Wheeler & Robert Woolsey are
some of her best known.
actress.Born to a Civil War veteran named Joby Howland (who at age
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.
Her brother was character actor Olin Howland. Tall, regal and
beautiful, red-haired Howland was one of several models for Charles
Dana Gibson's famous sketches of Gibson Girls.Howland made her first
appearance on the New York Stage in 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.She decided to try her luck in film
and moved to a Lloyd Wright (Frank Lloyd Wright, Jr.) bungalow in
Beverly Hills which was maintained by Hernando, a Navajo servant who
liked to sample Howland's makeup. She appeared in a few silent
pictures, but this medium did not seem to suit her booming, direct and
distinct voice. In sound films, she typically played the kind of roles
she had mastered on the stage, the domineering but dependable support.
Her appearances in the comedies of Bert Wheeler & Robert Woolsey are
some of her best known.
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