Clare Jenness Howard was born in New York, the daughter of Pulitzer Prize winning author, playwright and screenwriter Sidney Howard and stage and screen actress Clare Eames. She was a great-niece of the American soprano opera singer, Emma Eames and great grand-daughter of William Thomas Hamilton, a former governor of Maryland. In 1930 Howard’s mother died in Britain and the following year her father married Polly Damrosch, a daughter of the German-born 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 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. Their marriage ended a short while later, for in August 1950 she married film producer Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.. The couple would go on to have four children, including business executive Francis Goldwyn, actor Tony Goldwyn and studio executive, John Goldwyn. This marriage ended in divorce some sixteen years later.
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Clare Jenness Howard was born in New York, the daughter of Pulitzer Prize winning author, playwright and screenwriter Sidney Howard and stage and screen actress Clare Eames. She was a great-niece of the American soprano opera singer, Emma Eames and great grand-daughter of William Thomas Hamilton, a former governor of Maryland. In 1930 Howard’s mother died in Britain and the following year her father married Polly Damrosch, a daughter of the German-born 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 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. Their marriage ended a short while later, for in August 1950 she married film producer Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.. The couple would go on to have four children, including business executive Francis Goldwyn, actor Tony Goldwyn and studio executive, John Goldwyn. This marriage ended in divorce some sixteen years later.
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Born Clare Jenness HOWARD
