By Ed Gross
12/21/2021
‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’ Star Sally Ann Howes Dies at 91
British stage and screen actress and singer Sally Ann Howes, who held dual citizienship in Britain and America and who co-starred opposite Dick Van Dyke in the film version of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, has died at the age of 91.
Born July 20, 1930 in St. John’s Wood, London, first discovered her love for acting in school stage productions and would make her film debut in 1943’s Thursday’s Child. A year later she starred in The Halfway House, which led to such efforts as Dead of Night (1945), Pink String and Sealing Wax (1945), Nicholas Nickelby (1947), My Sister and I (1948) and Anna Karenina (1948). When she turned 18, she was signed to a seven-year contract with the Rank Organization, which led to a number of other film roles, none of which she was particularly happy with, so she managed to get out of that contract and started appearing in musical theatre, on television and singing on the radio.
HOWES, Sally Ann
Born: 7/20/1930, St. John’s Wood, London, England, U.K.
Died: 12/19/2021, West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A.
Sally Ann Howes’ westerns: actress.
Paint Your Wagon (TV) – 1954 (Jennifer Rumson)
Prudence and the Chief (TV) – 1970 (Prudence MacKenzie
The Virginian (TV) – 1971 (Martha Clayton)
Female Artillery (TV) – 1973 (Sybil Townsend)
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