Virginia Howell

Virginia Howell

Born: January 8, 1883
Died: December 31, 1941
in Timmonsville, South Carolina, USA

Movies for Virginia Howell...

The Women
Title: The Women
Character: Receptionist (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
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Star Reporter
Title: Star Reporter
Character: Julia Randolph
Released: February 22, 1939
Type: Movie
An idealistic young newspaper reporter crusades against organized crime.
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Girls' School
Title: Girls' School
Character: Miss MacBeth
Released: September 30, 1938
Type: Movie
Wealthy high school girls are sent to a boarding school to learn proper etiquette. Linda Simpson stays out all night. She tells her roommate, Betty Fleet, that it was because she's planning to elope. Linda gets in trouble when the faculty finds out from a monitor's report submitted by reluctant Natalie Freeman, a poor girl attending on scholarship.
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The Girl of the Golden West
Title: The Girl of the Golden West
Character: Governor's Wife
Released: March 18, 1938
Type: Movie
Mary Robbins is a moderately educated, beautiful, young woman who owns the saloon called "The Poker". She is the only woman in the town of Couldee - making her the fancy of all the men there, especially to Sheriff Jack Rance. On the way to Monterey to sing at a mass officiated by Father Sienna, her stagecoach is held up by the infamous masked bandit, Ramerez. He too takes a fancy to Mary, and decides to secretly follow her, taking on the identity of an officer named, Lieutenant Johnson. While in Monterey, he dances, sings and courts Mary, who has now fallen in love with him. He then has to make a quick getaway. In the mean-time, Sheriff Jack has set up a trap to catch Ramerez at "The Poker". When Ramerez does arrive he soon discovers that Mary is the owner, and quickly changes to the identity of Lieutenant Johnson. How long can this charade last?
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Blossoms On Broadway
Title: Blossoms On Broadway
Character: Quinterfield Secretary (uncredited)
Released: November 19, 1937
Type: Movie
A young singer hopes to become a success on Broadway.
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Tango
Title: Tango
Character: Mrs. Carver, Tony's Mother
Released: February 13, 1936
Type: Movie
Believing his wife to be unfaithful, a husband deserts her and his child. Destitute, the woman is forced to take a job as a tango dancer.
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While the Patient Slept
Title: While the Patient Slept
Character: Kema - the Cook (uncredited)
Released: March 9, 1935
Type: Movie
A murder happens when greedy relatives gather to await the demise of their wealthy and very ill family patriarch.
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Gentlemen Are Born
Title: Gentlemen Are Born
Character: Miss Graham
Released: November 17, 1934
Type: Movie
A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn that the piece of paper the diploma is written on is worth about eighteen-dollars-a-week in the job-market...for the lucky ones. Some of them fare even worse.
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The Scarlet Letter
Title: The Scarlet Letter
Character: Abigail Crakstone
Released: September 18, 1934
Type: Movie
In the seventeenth century, in Massachusetts, a young woman is forced to wear a scarlet "A" on her dress for bearing a child out of wedlock.
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Double Door
Title: Double Door
Character: Avery
Released: May 4, 1934
Type: Movie
A domineering money-bags' suppressed incestuous urges go into overdrive when her half-brother brings a new bride home to the family’s gloomy Fifth Avenue mansion. The title refers to a secret soundproofed chamber that the villainess uses to entrap her enemies.
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Strictly Fresh Yeggs
Title: Strictly Fresh Yeggs
Character: Mrs. Stanton
Released: April 6, 1934
Type: Movie
After spending the night out drinking, a man tries to find his way home, but can't quite get there.
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Spitfire
Title: Spitfire
Character: Granny Raines
Released: March 8, 1934
Type: Movie
Dirt-poor mountain girl Trigger Hicks is a loner. Her faith-healing is mistaken for witchcraft by the community. She falls for an engineer building a dam, who protects her.
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Convention City
Title: Convention City
Character: Mrs. Orchard
Released: December 14, 1933
Type: Movie
Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City.
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Ever in My Heart
Title: Ever in My Heart
Character: Cousin Serena Honeywell
Released: October 28, 1933
Type: Movie
World War I brings tribulations to an American woman married to a German.
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Tomorrow at Seven
Title: Tomorrow at Seven
Character: Mrs. Quincy
Released: June 1, 1933
Type: Movie
People in an old, dark mansion are menaced by a maniac called "The Black Ace".
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Rockabye
Title: Rockabye
Character: Mrs. Bronson (uncredited)
Released: November 25, 1932
Type: Movie
A Broadway actress with a problematic past falls hard for the author of her new play.
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Faithless
Title: Faithless
Character: Mrs. Blainey
Released: October 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Socialite Carol Morgan romps through the Depression and her wealth while breaking up with Bill Wade and getting back together with him.
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Okay, America!
Title: Okay, America!
Character: Mrs. Drake
Released: September 8, 1932
Type: Movie
A gossip columnist's rise to fame. Based closely on the real life of Walter Winchell.