Yvonne Howell | |
Birth Name: | Julia Rose Shevlin |
Birth Date: | 31 July 1905 |
Death Place: | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Occupation: | American film actress |
Mother: | Alice Howell |
Children: | George Stevens Jr. |
Yvonne Howell (born Julia Rose Shevlin; July 31, 1905 – May 27, 2010) was an actress whose career began in silent films.[1]
Howell was born Julia Rose Shevlin. Her parents were vaudeville performer and silent actress Alice Howell and Benjamin Vincent Shevlin.[2]
In 1930, she became the first wife of then cameraman George Stevens, an Academy Award-winning film director. They divorced in 1947. Their son, George Stevens Jr., was founding director of the American Film Institute.[3]
Howell died aged 104 on May 27, 2010, from cardiac arrest at her residence of Hollywood.[4]