Jennifer Howard (March , â€" December , ) was an American stage and
film actress active between the mid-s and early s. 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 grandniece of the
American opera singer Emma Eames and great-granddaughter of William
Thomas Hamilton, a governor of Maryland.In , Howard's mother died in
London, and the following year, her father married Polly Damrosch, a
daughter of the German-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 ,
she 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 , she married film producer
Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.. The couple had four children, including business
executive Francis Goldwyn, actor Tony Goldwyn, and studio executive
John Goldwyn. This marriage also ended in divorce, some years later.
film actress active between the mid-s and early s. 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 grandniece of the
American opera singer Emma Eames and great-granddaughter of William
Thomas Hamilton, a governor of Maryland.In , Howard's mother died in
London, and the following year, her father married Polly Damrosch, a
daughter of the German-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 ,
she 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 , she married film producer
Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.. The couple had four children, including business
executive Francis Goldwyn, actor Tony Goldwyn, and studio executive
John Goldwyn. This marriage also ended in divorce, some years later.
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