She's so well-known for playing worn-out floozies and bug-eyed matrons that it's virtually inconceivable that she might once have been youthful (!) and attractive (!!).
Monday, April 7, 2014
ESTHER HOWARD IN SWEETHEART SHOP
Images of Esther Howard as a young woman are exceedingly scarce.
She's so well-known for playing worn-out floozies and bug-eyed matrons that it's virtually inconceivable that she might once have been youthful (!) and attractive (!!).
Here's the proof, in a photo dating from 1920 and her big success in the Broadway comedy The Sweetheart Shop, where she was playing a character with a name that Preston Sturges should have been the one to think up--Minvera Butts.
She's so well-known for playing worn-out floozies and bug-eyed matrons that it's virtually inconceivable that she might once have been youthful (!) and attractive (!!).
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