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Article: OBITUARY: John Howard
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 27, 1995
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John R. Cox Jnr (John Howard), actor: born Cleveland, Ohio 14
April 1913; died Santa Rosa, California 22 February 1995.
John Howard is best remembered today for two supporting roles,
as the stuffy fianc jilted by Katharine Hepburn at the end of
George Cukor's The Philadelphia Story (1940) and as Ronald Colman's
"jingoistic younger brother" - as Capra himself described him - in
Frank Capra's Lost Horizon (1937). Both were important movies and
their casts were hand-picked. There seemed every chance that he
was going to be a major star.
He had appeared on stage in his native Cleveland when Paramount
signed him to a contract and put him into a sentimental drama about
the naval academy, ...