Yvonne Howell (July 31, 1905 – May 27, 2010) was an actress whose career began in silent films. Biography Howell's mother was vaudeville performer and silent actress Alice Howell and her father was Benjamin Vincent Shevlin. 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. After her film career ended, she was a nurse's aide at Army hospitals in Southern California during World War II and later served as a volunteer tutor. Howell died aged 104 on May 27, 2010, from cardiac arrest at her residence of Hollywood. Filmography Working Girls (1931) Take Me Home (1928) Hop Off (1928) Short Great Mail Robbery (1927) Somewhere in Sonora (1927) Fashions for Women (1927) The Lady of Lyons, N.Y. (1926) Short A Fraternity Mixup (1926) Short Flaming Flappers (1925) Short Transients in Arcadia (1925) Short Harem Follies (1924 ) Short References External links 1905 births 2010 deaths 20th-century American actresses Actresses from Chicago Actresses from Illinois American centenarians American film actresses American silent film actresses Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) Women centenarians 21st-century American women