title: Yvonne Howell
text: # Yvonne Howell
  
  Yvonne Howell (born Julia Rose Shevlin; July 31, 1905 – May 27, 2010) was an actress whose career began in silent films.
  
  ## Biography
  
  Howell's mother was vaudeville performer and silent actress Alice Howell and her father was Benjamin Vincent Shevlin.
  
  In 1930, she became the first wife of then cameraman George Stevens, an Academy Award-winning film director. They divorced in 1947. Their son, George Stevens Jr., was founding director of the American Film Institute.
  
  Howell died aged 104 on May 27, 2010, from cardiac arrest at her residence of Hollywood.
  
  ## Filmography
  
  * Working Girls (1931)
  * Take Me Home (1928)
  * Hop Off (1928) Short
  * Great Mail Robbery (1927)
  * Somewhere in Sonora (1927)
  * Fashions for Women (1927)
  * The Lady of Lyons, N.Y. (1926) Short
  * A Fraternity Mixup (1926) Short
  * Flaming Flappers (1925) Short
  * Transients in Arcadia (1925) Short
  * Harem Follies (1924) Short
  