At 18, she appeared with John Mills in “The History of Mr. She played children’s roles in “Dead of Night” (1945), with Michael Redgrave, and “Anna Karenina” (1948), with Vivien Leigh. Howes’s acting in school plays and her family connections attracted an agent, and in 1943 she appeared with Stewart Granger in her first movie, “Thursday’s Child.” It launched her career. Malone, directed stage musicals an uncle, Pat Malone, was an actor. Sally Ann Howes was born in London on July 20, 1930, to the comedian Bobby Howes and the actress Patricia Malone.
In 1990, she joined a New York City Opera staging of Stephen Sondheim’s “A Little Night Music,” in the role of the theater actress Desiree Armfeldt the production was shown on public television’s “Live From Lincoln Center.” And a half-century after her triumph as Eliza Doolittle, she toured the United States in “My Fair Lady” in 2007, playing Mrs. Howes toured Britain in 1973 in “The King and I,” and the United States in 1978 in “The Sound of Music.” In the 1970s and ’80s she sang operettas like “Blossom Time” and “The Merry Widow” in American regional theaters. Throughout the 1960s she turned increasingly to television, appearing on the Perry Como, Dinah Shore, Jack Paar and Ed Sullivan shows, and on “The Bell Telephone Hour,” “Kraft Music Hall” and “The United States Steel Hour.” She also had roles in “Mission: Impossible,” “Marcus Welby, M.D.” and “Bracken’s World.”
Howes, pressed by other engagements, left after a year. The show ran for 540 performances, although Ms. Howes joined Robert Alda and Steve Lawrence in “What Makes Sammy Run?” a Broadway musical written by Budd Schulberg and based on his novel about a ruthless young man who betrays friends and lovers to scheme his way to the top of a Hollywood studio. Otherwise some smart gentlemen in Scotland might decide to nominate her for public office.”
Esterow suggested, “Broadway should hurry and find a new show for Miss Howes. “She has grace, beauty and a lovely voice.” Since “Brigadoon” was soon to vanish, Mr. “Sally Ann Howes has grown accustomed to Lerner and Loewe songs,” Milton Esterow said in a review for The Times. Johnson was a frequent guest on television game and talk shows became a Barbie doll sang operettas and later in life lectured, made documentaries and raised funds for AIDS research and other charities. She toured Britain and America in musicals sang at the White House for Presidents Dwight D. She starred in some 140 productions - musicals and plays in New York and London, Hollywood movies and television mini-series. Howes was cast in her first movie at 12 and had a stage, screen and television career that spanned six decades. Howes had homes in West Palm Beach and London.īorn into show business, the daughter of a popular London comedian and his singer-actress wife, Ms. Her son, Andrew Hart Adler, confirmed the death, in a hospital. Sally Ann Howes, an English-born grande dame of American and British musical comedy who captivated children as Truly Scrumptious in “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,” the 1968 film featuring a magic jalopy that floats and flies into fantasy adventures, died on Sunday in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.
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