Frances howard biography
Frances howard (actress)!
Frances Howard (actress)
American actress (1903–1976)
Frances Howard Goldwyn (née McLaughlin; June 4, 1903 – July 2, 1976) was an American actress.
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She was the second wife of producer Samuel Goldwyn, and the paternal grandmother of actors Tony and John Goldwyn.
Early life
Frances Howard McLaughlin[1] was born in Kansas City, Kansas[2] or Omaha, Nebraska in 1903[3] to Helen Victoria (née Howard) and Charles Douglas McLaughlin.[4] She was raised as a Catholic.
Her mother, nicknamed Bonnie, had been raised a Quaker but converted to Catholicism, and she predeceased her daughter by five years. Her father was reportedly a grandson of Irish nationalist politician Daniel O'Connell. Howard had two sisters and a brother.[4]
Career
Howard began her professional career at age 16 with a stock theater company.[5] When she was 21, Howard portrayed a flapper on Broadway in The Intimate Strangers.[6] She followe
