page_title: Jennifer Howard (actress)
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Jennifer Howard (actress) / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: This is a photograph taken in 1952 of the screenwriter William Templeton in conversation with the actress Jennifer Howard. Jennifer Howard starred in the TV series 'Checkmate'. William Templeton was one of its episodic scriptwriters.
context_page_description: Jennifer Howard was an American stage and film actress active between the mid-1940s and early 1960s. Howard appeared in a number of classic television shows during the American Golden Age of Television and was also an accomplished watercolor and acrylic artist. She was the daughter of the playwright and screenwriter Sidney Howard and first wife of Hollywood producer Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
context_section_description: Clare Jenness Howard was born in New York, the daughter of dramatist Sidney Howard and stage and screen actress Clare Eames. She was a grandniece of the American opera singer Emma Eames and great-granddaughter of William Thomas Hamilton, a governor of Maryland.
  In 1930, Howard's mother died in London, and the following year, her father married Polly Damrosch, a daughter of the German-American conductor and composer Walter Damrosch. Howard lost her father nine years later in a tractor mishap on their farm near Tyringham, Massachusetts.
  Howard graduated from Milton Academy and attended classes at Barnard College, and in May 1946, she married Mortimer Halpern, a one-time actor known as Morty Halpern, who became a Broadway stage and production manager. At the time of their marriage, Howard was an actress with the Theatre Guild Shakespeare Repertory Company where Halpern was the stage manager. The marriage was short-lived, and in August 1950, she married film producer Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.. The couple had four children, including business executive Francis Goldwyn, actor Tony Goldwyn, and studio executive John Goldwyn. This marriage also ended in divorce, some 16 years later.
caption: Jennifer Howard in 1952 with screenwriter William Templeton
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