Esther Howard

Highest Rated: 100% My Favorite Blonde (1942)

Lowest Rated: 63% The Beautiful Blonde From Bashful Bend (1949)

Birthday: Apr 4, 1892

Birthplace: Not Available

Switching from Broadway to Hollywood in 1931, actress Esther Howard was an expert at portraying blowsy old crones, man-hungry spinsters and oversexed dowagers. Utilizing her wide, expressive eyes and versatile voice for both broad comedy and tense drama, Howard was equally at home portraying slatternly tosspot Mrs. Florian in Murder My Sweet (1944) as she was in the role of genteelly homicidal Aunt Sophie in Laurel and Hardy's The Big Noise (1944). She was a regular participant in the films of writer/director Preston Sturges, playing everything from an addled farm woman in Sullivan's Travels (1942) to the bejeweled wife of "The Wienie King" in The Palm Beach Story (1942). From 1935 to 1952, Esther Howard was a fixture of Columbia's short-subject unit, usually cast as the wife or sweetheart of comedian Andy Clyde.

Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
No Score Yet	No Man of Her Own	Boarding House Owner	—	1950
No Score Yet	Caged	Grace	—	1950
63%	The Beautiful Blonde From Bashful Bend	Mrs. Smidlap	—	1949
No Score Yet	The Lady Gambles	Cross lady	—	1949
94%	Champion	Mrs. Kelly	—	1949
No Score Yet	Look for the Silver Lining	Mrs. Moffitt	—	1949
No Score Yet	Hellfire	Birdie	—	1949
No Score Yet	Homicide	Mrs. Brucker	—	1949
No Score Yet	June Bride	Mrs. Mitchell	—	1948
No Score Yet	The Velvet Touch	Pansy Dupont	—	1948
83%	Born to Kill	Mrs. Kraft	—	1947
82%	Song of the Thin Man	Counterwoman	—	1947
No Score Yet	The Trouble with Women	Mrs. Fogarty	—	1947
No Score Yet	Without Reservations	Sarah	—	1946
No Score Yet	Dick Tracy vs. Cueball	Filthy Flora	—	1946
No Score Yet	A Letter for Evie	Mrs. Edgewaters	—	1946
No Score Yet	The Falcon's Alibi	Gloria Peabody	—	1946
No Score Yet	Adventure	Blister	—	1945
98%	Detour	Hedy	—	1945
No Score Yet	The Falcon in San Francisco	Mrs. Peabody	—	1945
No Score Yet	The Great Flamarion	Cleo	—	1945
94%	Murder, My Sweet	Mrs. Florian	—	1944
No Score Yet	San Diego, I Love You	Mother	—	1944
No Score Yet	The Big Noise	Aunt Sophie	—	1944
95%	Hail the Conquering Hero	Mrs. Noble	—	1944
No Score Yet	Once upon a Time	Clerk	—	1944
86%	The Miracle of Morgan's Creek	Sally	—	1944
97%	The Palm Beach Story	Wife of Wienie King	—	1942
No Score Yet	Tales of Manhattan	Woman	—	1942
100%	My Favorite Blonde	Mrs. Topley	—	1942
100%	Sullivan's Travels	Miz Zeffie	—	1941
100%	The Great McGinty	Madame La Jolla	—	1940
No Score Yet	Broadway Serenade	Mrs. Fellowes	—	1939
No Score Yet	Marie Antoinette	Streetwalker	—	1938
No Score Yet	The Texans	Madame	—	1938
No Score Yet	Meet the Mayor	Mrs. Prescott	—	1938
91%	Dead End	Woman with coarse voice	—	1937
No Score Yet	Rhythm in the Clouds	Mrs. Madigan	—	1937
No Score Yet	Swing High, Swing Low	Customer	—	1937
No Score Yet	Klondike Annie	Fanny Radler	—	1936
No Score Yet	Stars over Broadway	Amateur Singer	—	1935
No Score Yet	The Farmer Takes a Wife	Cook	—	1935
No Score Yet	Mary Burns, Fugitive	Landlady	—	1935
No Score Yet	Below the Sea	Lily	—	1933
100%	Merrily We Go to Hell	Vi	—	1932
No Score Yet	The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood	Mrs. Kelly	—	1932
No Score Yet	Meet the Mayor	Actor	—	1932
No Score Yet	Ladies of the Big House	Clara Newman	—	1931
No Score Yet	The Vice Squad	Josie	—	1931
71%	The Great Moment	Wells' Ugly Patient	—	1921

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