Jobyna Howland
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Jobyna Howland.
Born: March 31, 1880
Place of Birth: Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Known For
The Cuckoos
Two phony fortune tellers get mixed up with gypsies.
Once in a Lifetime
Story of a Hollywood studio during the transition from silents to talkies.
The Story of Temple Drake
The coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’ hide-out, subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence, and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her up completely.
Rockabye
A Broadway actress with a problematic past falls hard for the author of her new play.
Topaze
An honest and naive schoolteacher gets a lesson in how the world works outside the classroom, when a rich Baron and his mistress use the teacher's name and outstanding reputation in a crooked business scheme.
Silver Dollar
A farmer strikes it rich out West, then leaves his wife for a young beauty.
Hook, Line and Sinker
Two fast-talking insurance salesmen meet Mary, who is running away from her wealthy mother, and they agree to help her run a hotel that she owns. When they find out that the hotel is run down and nearly abandoned, they launch a phony PR campaign that presents the hotel as a resort favored by the rich. Their advertising succeeds too well, and many complications soon arise.
Big City Blues
An Indiana boy comes into an inheritance and moves to New York City, living it up with his girlfriend until he gets in over his head and someone gets killed.
Honey
A once-wealthy sister and brother rent out their Southern mansion and stay on as cook and butler.
Dixiana
A circus performer falls in love with the son of a plantation owner in antebellum New Orleans. When the young man's stepmother objects to the wedding, the couple break apart and go their separate ways for a time. Also in the mix are two circus comics who feud over the heart of another Southern belle.
Filmography
as (uncredited)
as Miss Reba
as Queenie Truelove
as Baroness Hortense de La Tour-La Tour
as Poker Annie
as 'Snooks' Carroll
as Mrs. Walker
as Mrs. Serena Cartlich
as Lady Chetworth-Lynde
as Mrs. Rebecca Marsh
as Josephine
as Alexandra Stroganov
as Mrs. Birdie Van Horn
as Fannie Furst
as Mrs. Falkner
as Mrs. Benson
as Mollie Wise
as Mrs. Randolph