Norah Howard

Norah Howard, born Norah Lillian Emily Smeed on 12 December 1900 in Fulham, London, England, was a British actress who worked in stage and screen across a career spanning several decades. She adopted her professional surname from her father Alfred Howard Smeed's middle name, performing under the name Norah Howard throughout her career. She died on 2 May 1968 in New York, New York.

Howard's stage career encompassed work on both sides of the Atlantic. In the West End, she appeared in the original productions of Cole Porter's Nymph Errant and Frank Vosper's Love from a Stranger, the latter in 1936. Her Broadway career ran from 1940 to 1958 and included productions such as the drama Jane Eyre, the drama Child of Fortune, the play Someone Waiting, Dear Charles, and Mr. Pickwick. She also appeared in the 1948 Broadway revival of Noël Coward's Tonight at 8.30.

Alongside her stage work, Howard maintained an active screen career, appearing in a number of British films during the 1930s and into the 1940s. Her film credits include The W Plan (1930), A Cuckoo in the Nest (1933), Love, Life and Laughter (1934), Car of Dreams (1935), Fighting Stock (1935), The Big Noise (1936), I've Got a Horse (1938), Star of the Circus (1938), The Saint in London (1939), The Lambeth Walk (1939), and An Englishman's Home (1940). She later appeared in Two Loves (1961).