Esther Howard

Esther Howard

Nacimiento : 1892-04-04, Butte, Montana, USA

Muerte : 1965-03-08

Perfil

Esther Howard
Esther Howard

Películas

Caught on the Bounce
Aunt Tildy
Joe Besser needs money to pay back a loan of $2500 and travels to ask his aunt for the money. She boards the train, along with a man who looks like a wanted bank-robber, and tells Joe she needs $2500 herself and can not help him. Between them they capture the bank robber and split the $5,000 reward.
All That I Have
Mrs. Dalton
Dr. Charles Greyson is a famous and wealthy former surgeon. His nephews have taken him to court to challenge his competency, due to his recent inexplicable gifts of large amounts of cash to the church, and, apparently, to some nefarious scam artists. The film is portrayed as a courtroom drama first painting "Dr. Charlie" as incompetent and easily swindled, then telling his side of events and putting them into context. In the courtroom, and by use of flashback, we hear of Dr. Charlies' move away from impersonal contribution on an institutional level, and preferring to express Christian stewardship directly to people who need it, and by helping spread the word of God by donating to Mission fronts who fight fear, anxiety and destitution around the world. We even find the scam artists having turned a new leaf, and creating new lives for themselves. Message being that all that we are we owe to God, and the profits gained from our God-given abilities require care and thought before sharing.
Sin remisión
Grace (uncredited)
Después de cometer un atraco en el que su marido resulta muerto, Marie Ellen (Eleanor Parker), una joven de clase media, ingresa en la prisión del Estado. Tras ser sometida a un reconocimiento médico, se entera de que está embarazada. Tras dos semanas de depresión en la sala médica de aislamiento, Marie tiene una entrevista con Ruth Benton (Agnes Moorehead), una superintendente amable y humana que lucha contra los viejos métodos penales.
Hellfire
Birdie
Zeb Smith is a gambler with a larcenous streak, but when an itinerant preacher takes a bullet meant for him, Zeb vows to fulfill the preacher's mission of building a church. Frustrated in his attempts to get donations, Zeb attempts to capture fugitive Doll Brown in order to obtain the reward. But he finds that there's more to Doll than meets the eye. When his old friend Bucky McLean shows up gunning for Doll, Zeb sees a chance to redeem them all... one way or another.
Dirección prohibida
Gross Lady
Cuando Joan Boothe acompaña a su marido, que es reportero, a Las Vegas, empieza a jugar para pasar el tiempo mientras él realiza su trabajo.
El ídolo de barro
Mrs. Kelly
Midge Kelly y su hermano se dirigen a California. En la carretera, los recoge el boxeador Johnny Dunne que anima a Midge a participar en una velada de boxeo, en la que recibe una gran paliza. Sin embargo, el mánager Tommy Haley, que presiente que tiene talento, le hace una oferta, pero Midge la rechaza. Los dos hermanos encuentran trabajo en un café regentado por Lew Bryce y su hija Emma. Cuando Midge y la chica se hacen novios, el padre de ella los obliga a casarse. Después de la boda, Midge recurre a Haley y llega a ser un aceptable boxeador, aunque excesivamente violento. Finalmente, decide abandonar a su mánager y empieza a pelear para unos gángsters.
Homicide
Mrs. Brucker, Landlady
Michael Landers, a police lieutenant, sets out to investigate an intricate murder case. But, the case is closed after the only witness is found dead. Will Michael be able to fathom the mystery?
La novia de junio
Mrs. Mitchell
Carey Jackson recibe una oferta de trabajo de Home Life, una revista "para mujeres". Él acepta cuando descubre que la editora es su vieja amiga Linda Gilman. Ocurrencias verbales vuelan entre Carey y Linda cuando van a Indiana a cubrir la "típica boda americana" de la familia Brinker. Pero detrás de la superficie hay algo oculto. A pesar de los conflictos, ¿podrá Carey salvar la historia (y su trabajo)? ¿Podrán los corazones rotos volverse a unir?
The Velvet Touch
Pansy Dupont
After accidentally killing her lecherous producer, a famous actress tries to hide her guilt.
Wedlock Deadlock
Lydia - Betty's Mother
Newlyweds Eddie (Joe DeRita) and Betty (Christine McIntyre) barely moved into their new house before Betty's mother (Esther Howard), aunt (Patsy Moran) and brother (Charles Williams) show up and give every indication of becoming permanent free-loading guests. Dick (William Newell) gives Eddie a plan that will cause his unwanted guests to vacate the premises, by having Dick and his wife, Ruby (Dorothy Granger), move in as Eddie's relatives, and even bigger pests, thereby causing Betty's relatives to move out. The plan works and Eddie and Betty are pleased until Dick announces that he and Ruby have intentions of staying on.
La ruleta de la muerte
Sadie (uncredited)
A bordo del S.S. Fortune en una velada de apuestas para actos de caridad, las mesas están calientes, la música de Jazz aún más caliente, y antes de que te des cuenta, el director de orquesta está fiambre. ¡Están tocando vuestra canción, Nick y Nora Charles!. William Powell y Myrna Loy regresan como el matrimonio de detectives que son, sacando de la cama a los sospechosos a las 4 de la madrugada para interrogarlos mientras tratan de entender la jerga musical bebop del jazz de los años 40.
Nacido para matar
Mrs. Kraft
En Reno (Nevada), Helen Brent (Claire Trevor), una mujer fría y calculadora acaba de recibir una demanda de divorcio. Esa misma noche, se produce un doble asesinato en su barrio: Sam Wild (Lawrence Tierney), un atractivo psicópata, mata sin motivo alguno a una pareja. Para no verse involucrada en el asunto, al día siguiente, Helen coge un tren para San Francisco, pero Sam ha tenido la misma idea
Dick Tracy vs. Cueball
Filthy Flora, Dripping Dagger Proprietor
A police detective uses his girlfriend to track down a homicidal maniac.
Sucedió en el tren
Sarah (uncredited)
Kit Madden es una novelista que viaja en tren a Hollywood para colaborar en una película que se basa en su nuevo libro 'Aquí está el mañana'. Durante el trayecto conoce al marine Rusty Thomas, un caballero que discutirá con ella diversos aspectos del libro, mostrando su desacuerdo en algunos puntos, sin saber que está hablando con la autora.
The Falcon's Alibi
Gloria Peabody
A society sleuth sets out on the trail of a society matron's lost jewels.
A Letter for Evie
Mrs. Edgewaters
Evie's co-workers at the uniform shirt factory, and her almost-fiancée's inability to kiss, inspire her to slip a letter into a size sixteen-and-a-half shirt for some anonymous soldier. It's received by "Wolf" Larson, who immediately throws it away, but his sensitive, dreaming--and short--buddy John McPherson snags it, and begins a correspondence with Evie, pretending to be Wolf. But things get complicated when Evie wants to meet her tall, handsome soldier. And even more complicated when Wolf sees Evie and likes what he sees.
Aventura
Woman with Mudgin in bar
Un marino mercante que lleva una vida bastante despreocupada se enamora de una dulce y sumisa bibliotecaria, pero muy pronto se da cuenta de que no puede seguir con ella porque su vida es el mar.
Desvío
Holly
La vida de Al Roberts, pianista en un club nocturno de Nueva York, se convierte en una pesadilla cuando decide hacer autostop hasta Los Ángeles para visitar a su novia.
El Gran Flamarion
Cleo
Flamarion es la atracción de un Music Hall. Con éxito presenta su show en vivo. Dentro de su espectáculo se encuentra su bella ayudante, casada pero enamorada de un acróbata que participa en el show. La ayudante decide seducir a El Gran Flamarion para que mate a su marido y poder huir con el acróbata. Cuando El Gran Flamarion descubre la trama, la busca para acabar con ella
Historia de un detective
Jesse Florian
Esta intriga policiaca narra las aventuras de Philip Marlowe, un detective privado de Los Ángeles que resuelve todo tipo de misterios. Cuando el exconvicto Moose se pone en contacto con él sobre lo que parece un caso de lo más rutinario, una serie de pistas falsas aparecen en escena acusando al protagonista de unos crímenes que no ha cometido. Sin embargo, todas las pruebas clarifican su intervención en el terrible homicidio… ¿Conseguirá Philip resolver el enrevesado enigma?
El milagro de Morgan Creek
Sally (uncredited)
La tranquilidad de un pequeño pueblo de Estados Unidos se ve alterada después de un baile al que asistieron algunos soldados. Trudy Kockenlocker (Betty Hutton), una hermosa chica, aparece al día siguiente borracha, con un anillo de casada en el dedo y embarazada de un hombre del que sólo conoce el apellido. Había seis soldados, pero no recuerda quién es el afortunado.
Idle Roomers
Hazel's Roommate (uncredited)
The stooges are working as bellboys in a large hotel when a side show promoter shows up with 'Lupe', a wild wolfman who promptly escapes. The stooges try to capture the wolfman by playing music to calm him, but music makes the wolfman go berserk and soon the stooges are the ones trying to run away. The boys end up caught in an elevator with the wolfman who shoots them into the sky.
True to Life
Woman (uncredited)
Un escritor de seriales radiofónicos anda desesperadamente falto de ideas. Hasta que se muda a un apartamento contiguo a la casa de una encantadora familia que le sirve de inspiración. El tipo pone en marcha un programa de gran éxito, pero se siente culpable de su enfoque de chanza, más cuando se enamora de la hija mayor del clan.
Un marido rico
Wife of Wienie King
Inexplicablemente, un novio y una novia no pueden asistir a su propia boda porque se lo impiden sus dobles, que son los que se casan. Seis años más tarde, el administrador del piso de Park Avenue de Tom y Gerry Jeffers enseña la casa, aunque todavía viven en ella, a otros posibles inquilinos, ya que ellos se han retrasado en el pago del alquiler. Gerry se siente frustrada porque su marido, un arquitecto que intenta sacar adelante sus proyectos, no permite que ella utilice su belleza para conseguir que alguien se los financie. Entonces, Gerry conoce accidentalmente a John D. Hackensacker III, uno de los hombres más ricos del mundo.
Jackass Mail
Dancehall Girl
An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father.
Mi rubia favorita
Mrs. Topley
Karen Bentley, una agente especial inglesa, tiene que formar equipo con el estrambótico Larry Haines, para frustrar los planes de unos espías alemanes.
Los viajes de Sullivan
Miz Zeffie
Estrenada primero en Portugal el 5 de Diciembre 1941. Obsesionado con la idea de rodar una película sobre la miseria y el sufrimiento, el director de cine John L. Sullivan convence a los ejecutivos del estudio para que le permitan recorrer el país disfrazado de vagabundo antes de empezar a rodar. Después de trabajar como peón para una viuda que espera de él algo más que cortar leña, huye de su casa, pero el camión que lo recoge lo lleva de vuelta a Hollywood. Sintiéndose completamente frustrado, Sully entra en una cafetería, donde conoce a una actriz rubia, que, entusiasmada con su proyecto, decide acompañarlo en su aventura.
The Lady from Cheyenne
Landlady
Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes to manipulate the sale of town lots to give him control, but Quaker schoolmarm Annie Morgan bags one of the key lots. Cork's lawyer Steve Lewis tries romancing Annie to get the lot back, finding her so overpoweringly liberated she leaves him dizzy. Still, Steve attains his nefarious object...almost...then has cause to deeply regret having aroused the sleeping giant of feminism!
El gran McGinty
Madame Juliette La Jolla
Estados Unidos, años 30. Durante la Gran Depresión, un vagabundo es reclutado por un partido político de su ciudad para colaborar en un fraude electoral.
Boobs in the Woods
Mrs. Clyde
Andy's annoying brother-in-law Gus gets him fired from his job, and then tag-a-longs on a vacation with Andy and his wife.
Alex in Wonderland
Blanche - Fred's Wife
In this Warner Bros. short film, Alex visits his sister Belinda and her husband Fred. It looks like Alex is going to be around for a while, much to Fred's displeasure. Alex in is New York to look for a job and he sees an ad for a champagne salesman. He decides to crash a swank party given by railroad tycoon J.D. Swinnerton and his wife. Alex has his own zany way of getting an introduction to the man. Mayhem ensues when several of the guests come as Robin Hood and one of them is a jewel thief.
Ride, Cowboy, Ride
Cactus Kate Ramsey
Dinny and his cowhand friends rescue Laura from a runaway stagecoach after it is robbed by outlaw Pancho Dominguez and his gang. Dinny is attracted to Laura, who isn't interested in him at all. The climax arises when Pancho's gang raids the town and robs the bank.
The Gracie Allen Murder Case
Florist
The zany plot follows nitwit Gracie Allen trying to help master sleuth Philo Vance solve a murder.
Se llevó mi corazón
Mrs. Fellows
Hale y Jimmy Seymour son una pareja que trabaja en en pequeños clubes nocturnos con la esperanza de tener éxito. Una noche, Larry Bryant (un productor de Broadway) ve a Mary y se enamora de su belleza y su voz. Larry Bryant le pide que haga una audición para el Sr. Collier y que Jimmy la acompañe. Después de escuchar a Mary, Collier quiere que Mary esté en su show. Jimmy anima a una Mary reacia a seguir el camino sin él.
Swing, Sister, Swing
Miss Fredericks
In this musical comedy, two star-struck small town kids head for the Big Apple and become famous for their jitterbug act. Their fame doesn't last long, but they had fun anyway. Songs include: "Baltimore Bubble," "Gingham Gown," "Just a Bore," "Wasn't It You," "Kaneski Waltz" (Frank Skinner, Charles Henderson).
Maria Antonieta
Streetwalker (uncredited)
Siglo XVIII. La princesa de Austria María Antonieta (Shearer) se casa con el delfín de Francia, Luis XVI (Morley), un hombre tan retraído que su relación con la joven es puramente formal. Antonieta se dejará fascinar por las fiestas de París y derrochará el dinero a manos llenas, aunque esta situación no durará mucho. Un drama de época que obtuvo 4 nominaciones a los Oscar: Actriz principal (Norma Shearer), actor secundario (Robert Morley), banda sonora y dirección artística.
Scandal Street
Birdie Brown
Joe McKnight temporarily leaves his fiancée, Nora Langdon, for an expedition in a South American jungle. Nora gets a position as librarian in the small town of Midberg, where she boards with the Smith family. Nora is befriended by her next-door neighbor Austin Brown, who, unknown to his wife, is engaged in a moneymaking scheme with James Wilson.
Siempre Eva
Mrs, Mack
Un tímido contable (Leslie Howard) trata de salvar de la bancarrota a un estudio de Hollywood con la ayuda de una sexy mujer (Joan Blondell) y un cínico productor de buen corazón (Humphrey Bogart).
Partners in Crime
Mrs. Wagon
Detective Hank Hyer investigates a blackmail case involving a candidate for mayor.
Calle sin salida
Neighbor with Coarse Voice (Uncredited)
En una calle de Nueva York, la miseria y la delincuencia conviven con la riqueza de los inquilinos de un lujoso bloque de apartamentos. Inevitablemente esos agudos contrastes acabarán desencadenando tensiones entre los dos mundos.
Rhythm in the Clouds
Mrs. Madigan
Judy Walker is a poor songwriter who, through mistaken identity, gets her songs played on the radio.
M'Liss
Rose
The third film version of the Bret Harte tale, starring Anne Shirley as a miner's daughter in a small town who falls for a handsome young schoolteacher.
Klondike Annie
Fanny Radler
A San Francisco singer flees Chinatown on murder charges and poses as a missionary in Alaska.
Stars Over Broadway
Mary Sporesgate
An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation.
It Always Happens
Mrs. Clyde
While on a business trip, Andy accidentially gets into a compromising position with the wife of a client.
The Misses Stooge
The Hostess
Thelma and Patsy get a job working for a magician.
The Best Man Wins
Mamie
A diver saves his best friend's life but loses his own arm in doing so. Later, unable to find work because of his missing arm, he is forced to go to work for a criminal searching for lost treasures. Meanwhile his friend, who has since become a policeman, finds himself assigned to break up the crook's operation and bring in his gang--including the man who saved his life.
Ready for Love
Aunt Ida
In this fluffy romance, a young woman fights against the narrow-minded residents of her small town. The trouble begins when a young woman flees her boarding school to stay with her retired aunt, a former actress, who try as she might, has never been welcomed into the snobbish community in which she resides. The young woman too, is shunned and ends up being victimized in witchcraft trial and ducked into a pool of water.
Honrarás a tu padre
Violet's Madame (Uncredited)
Daniel es un hombre que se ha hecho a sí mismo. A partir de la nada construyó uno de los almacenes más grandes e importantes de Chicago. Sin embargo, cuando llega el momento de que sus hijos lo releven, no le resultará nada fácil compaginar sus intereses con los de sus vástagos.
Below the Sea
Lily
A wealthy woman funds an underwater expedition to explore for marine life, but what she doesn't know is that her "colleagues" have other intentions.
Grand Slam
Mary
A Russian waiter in New York City becomes a national celebrity after he develops a "system" for winning at contract bridge.
The Iron Master
Mrs. Stillman
The wealthy owner of an iron foundry dies, and his greedy heirs are outraged when they find out that he left his entire estate not to them but to the foreman of his foundry.
Rackety Rax
'Sister' Carrie
Gambler/racketeer "Knucks" McGloin takes note of just how much money and action (aside from the game itself) takes place around and about the annual Rose Bowl football game, and decides this is one sweet proposition and could be even sweeter if one had his own college and football game and had a large say beforehand as to the outcome of any game this team had. So he ups and creates his own college---Carnasie after his own neighborhood. His gangster rival. Gilatti, thinks this give McGloin a definite inside advantage and, if there is one thing a gambler can't abide, it is that someone has an inside advantage and they are not that someone. Gilatti gets himself a college football team. Education marches on.
Tee for Two
Louisa
A musical revue in which a golfer is knocked unconscious by a golf ball and dreams that the Country Club is loaded with beautiful girls.
Winner Take All
Ann, Joan's Friend
Overworked boxer Jim goes to a health ranch in New Mexico to recover where he falls in love with Peggy and her sickly son. Once recovered, Jim leaves to return to the ring. Can their romance survive the distance?
Tuya para siempre
Vi
Un escritor alcohólico se dispone a estrenar su primera obra en Broadway, pero le conlleva tanto trabajo que le crea problemas matrimoniales...
The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood
Mrs. Maggie Kelly
The Cohens and the Kellys invade a Hollywood studio after Kitty becomes the darling of the studio.
A Fool's Advice
Mrs. Prescott
An elevator operator invents a machine that he believes can help to defeat a corrupt politician in the city's upcoming mayoral election.
Ladies of the Big House
Clara Newman
Una pareja de recién casados es víctima de las maniobras del ex de la mujer, un gangster rencoroso y cruel. Acaban acusados de un crimen que no han cometido, él sentenciado a muerte y ella a cadena perpetua. Perro la anterior novia del gangster, que está en la misma cárcel, la ayuda a demostrar su inocencia.
The Yellow Ticket
Prisoner
A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British journalist find their lives endangered when she reveals to him information regarding the social crimes rampant in her country.
The Vice Squad
Josie
A diplomat is blackmailed by crooked vice cops into helping them frame prostitutes.
Ship Ahoy
The Mother
Two sailors get romantically involved with a mother and daughter.