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Who was Sally Ann Howes ?

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang star Sally Ann Howes has died at the age of 91 following a career in theater and screen that spanned six decades.

Sally Ann Howes was an English actress and singer who held dual British-American citizenship. Her career on stage, screen, and television spanned over six decades. Wikipedia

The actress, who made her first on-screen appearance at age 12, passed away on Sunday just months after the death of her 48-year-old husband in September.

Sally Ann Howes Age ?

She was July 20, 1930, St John’s Wood, London, United Kingdom

Death

CHITTY Chitty Bang Bang star Sally Ann Howes has died at the age of 91.

Ms Howes, whose motive for death is unknown, was said to be inseparable from her British literary agent her husband Douglas Rae, whom she married in 1973.

Mrs. Howes was born in London in 1930 to actress Patricia Malone and actor Bobby Howes. At age 12, she appeared in the movie Thursday’s Child and was hired by Ealing Studios.

She was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical in 1963 for her appearance in Brigadoon and she starred in the children’s classic Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as Truly Scrumptious alongside Dick Van Dyke in 1968.

But her passion was theater, which she compared to ‘a drug’, making her her first appearance on Fancy Free and later starring in My Fair Lady as Eliza Doolittle.

She became a household name after replacing Julie Andrews in the 1958 Broadway production, once she said she heard a groan when she was announced as a last minute replacement for Mrs. Andrews’ performance.

‘The audience felt cheated and immediately felt that I had been thrown to the wolves. By the end of the performance, he had turned them, ” she previously said. She would later come to know her that afternoon as “the best I have ever had”.

She was born into an acting family and started performing in school productions when she was young.

She created the 1990 one-woman show From This Moment On, which debuted at the Edinburgh Film Festival.

Mrs. Howes married Broadway composer Richard Adler in 1958

Other stage roles included What Makes Sammy Run ?, The King and I, and Cinderella. “ I would have liked to have a film career, but I didn’t pursue it, I just loved connecting with an audience, ” she previously told the Palm Beach Post. ‘The theater is a drug. The problem is that to be remembered you have to make movies ”.

Mrs. Howes married Broadway composer Richard Adler in 1958 and she adopted her two children after the death of her mother.

She then she was briefly married to Andrew Maree before marrying Rae in 1973.

Her parents taught Ms. Howes to say yes to whatever they asked her to do, and once told a casting director that she smoked to get a role. She previously said: ‘I auditioned for a role and they asked me if I smoked. Naturally, I said yes.

“ My father had taught me long before that when a casting director asked you if you could do something, you immediately said yes, and if you couldn’t, you learned very quickly. Anyway, I learned to smoke for that role and when I finished it, I stopped. ‘

Similarly, when asked if she could dance during her audition for her role in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, she said that she could, thinking that her feet would be hidden behind large Edwardian-era skirts.

She then had to perform a solo routine in front of the entire cast and crew during a pivotal scene in the film, Baron Bomburst’s birthday party, when she pretended to be a wind-up doll in a music box. She did the scene in one go and earned huge applause from the extras who were watching.

Born in St John’s Wood, London, in 1930, Mrs Howe spent World War II in the family home in Hertfordshire, where her father regularly received theater guests.

One of her, an agent, remembered Ms. Howe and told her parents to bring her in for a screen test when she was 12 years old. She garnered rave reviews on Thursday’s Child (1943) and signed with Ealing Studios.

Married

Despite the success of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the successful film did not relaunch its film career and continued almost exclusively with theatrical roles, with the exception of some film and television parts.

“I would have liked to have a film career, but I didn’t pursue it, I just loved connecting with an audience,” Sally previously told the Palm Beach Post.

“The theater is a drug. The problem is that to be remembered you have to make movies.”

Her other theatrical roles included What Makes Sammy Run ?, The King and I, and Cinderella.

Sally married Broadway composer Richard Adler in 1958 and adopted her two children after the death of her mother.

She was briefly married to Andrew Maree before marrying British literary agent Douglas Rae in 1973.

Her marriage lasted 48 years before Rae’s death in September.

Dick Van Dyke (Caractacus Potts)

Beloved actor, singer, and dancer Dick Van Dyke will turn 96 in December and, from the looks of it, he’s still going strong.

The Hollywood legend can be found in Malibu with his wife of nine years, professional makeup artist Arlene Silver, 50, by his side.

The couple first met when Silver was working as a makeup artist at the SAG Awards in 2005. And like many people and fans, she was initially drawn to him, in part, because of her radiant and infectious smile.

She recalled to The Huffington Post: ‘I remember seeing Dick at the catering table with his bow tie and his big smile. Just when I sat down, he was sitting next to me. He said, “Hi, I’m Dick.” The first thing I asked him was, “Weren’t you at Mary Poppins?”

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