Brock Pemberton who also directed the 1921 play Swords, which began her parents' Broadway careers. Howard played The Nurse in Portrait of a Madonna from the play by Tennessee Williams, the first teleplay produced by the early television series Actors Studio, airing on September 26, 1948. During the late 1950s, she appeared in numerous American television series: In Cheyenne, she played the role of Ellen Ellwood in the episode "Land Beyond Law" (1957); in the Suspicion episode "Meeting in Paris" (1958), she played the mayor's secretary; in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode "The Foghorn" (1958), she played a nun; in The Thin Man episode "Jittery Juror" (1958), she played Joyce; in The Twilight Zone episode "Eye of the Beholder" (1960), she played a nurse; in the Checkmate episode "Laugh Till I Die" (1961), she played Corinne Marsdon; and in the Perry Mason series, she portrayed Lorraine Selkirk Jennings in "The Case of the Deadly Toy" (1959), Judith Thatcher in "The Case of Paul Drake's Dilemma" (1959), Milly Nash in "The Case of the Envious Editor" (1961), Winifred Dunbrack in "The Case of the Renegade Refugee" (1961), and Madelon Haines Shelby in "The Case of the Fickle Filly" (1962). Howard appeared in at least four films: Return to Peyton Place (1961) as Mrs. Jackman (uncredited), All Fall Down (1962) as Myra (uncredited), House of Women (1962) as Addie Gates, and The Chapman Report (1962) as Grace Waterton. Later life and death On July 28, 1972, Howard married the American artist John Ery Coleman in Los Angeles, with whom she remained until his death at the age of 69 on April 25, 1993. Howard died that December in Los Angeles at the age of 68 after battling lung cancer. References External links 1925 births 1993 deaths 20th-century American actresses Actresses from New York City American film actresses American stage actresses American television actresses Deaths from lung cancer in California Goldwyn family