- Alice Howell
Alice Howell (
May 20 1886 -April 11 1961 [Slide, Anthony. "Silent Players: A Biographical and Autobiographical Study of 100 Silent Film Actors and Actresses." Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2002. p. 185.] ), was asilent film comedy actress fromNew York City .Early reviews of her movies describe her as "the scream of the screen."One reviewer likened her to a "sort of
Charlie Chaplin ,Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. , andMax Linder ." All of this was compressed into "one more or less diminutive package of femininity." She was sometimes called "the girl Charlie Chaplin". Howell's early comedies were often produced byUniversal Pictures .Among more than one hundred screen credits Howell made such motion pictures as "Caught In A
Cabaret " (1914), "Mabel and Fatty's Married Life" (1915), "Neptune's Naughty Daughter" (1917), "Green Trees" (1924), and "Madame Dynamite" (1926). "Her Bareback Career" (1917) was the first of twelve two reel comedies for a new corporation which was formed to manufacture and distribute Alice Howell comedies.In this era such female
slapstick stars as Howell,Dorothy Devore , and Billie Rhodes were inhibited by second-rate films andthe absence of genuine star buildup.Howell's film career continued into the sound movie era with a role as a mute servant of the master murderer in the motion picture "The Black Ace" (1933).
Alice Howell died in
Los Angeles, California in 1961.elected filmography
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Distilled Love (1920)
*Mabel and Fatty's Married Life (1915)
* Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914)
*Lover's Luck (1914)
* Laughing Gas (1914)
*Caught in the Rain (1914)
*Caught in a Cabaret (1914)Notes
References
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa Republican, "At The Theaters", October 8, 1926, Page 3.
*Elyria, Ohio Chronicle Telegram, "Public Will Always Love Laughmakers", July 6, 1978, Page 24.
*Janesville, Wisconsin Daily Gazette, "News Notes From Movieland", August 31, 1917, Page 6.
*Los Angeles Times , "Book Alice Howell Comedies-Superba", September 23, 1917, Page III17.
*Los Angeles Times, "Actress Gets Half Job", March 24, 1933, Page 7.External links
*imdb name|id=0397922|name=Alice Howell
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