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Melodie Johnson Howe

Melodie Johnson Howe, née le à Los Angeles, est une ancienne actrice américaine, devenue auteur de roman policier.

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Elle s’intéresse à l’écriture dès son plus jeune âge et rédige des courtes pièces de théâtre restées inédites. Elle fait des études à l'Université de Californie à Los Angeles en création littéraire. Pourtant, à partir de 1965, elle se lance dans une carrière d’actrice à Hollywood. Elle apparaît au générique d'épisodes de plusieurs séries télévisées, dont Le Virginien, Opération vol, Ma sorcière bien-aimée et Mannix. Elle décroche également de petits rôles au cinéma, notamment dans Un shérif à New York (1968) de Don Siegel, aux côtés de Clint Eastwood, et dans La Guerre des bootleggers (1970) de Richard Quine, avec Patrick McGoohan et Richard Widmark. Elle met fin à sa carrière de comédienne au début des années 1980.

Sous son nom de femme mariée, Melodie Johnson Howe, elle publie à quelques années d'intervalle The Mother Shadow (1989) et Beauty Dies (1994), deux romans policiers me

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I was born in Los Angeles and grew up under the relentless sun and the dusty palm trees dreaming of becoming a great writer. Then Hollywood discovered me. At twenty-one I did a screen test for Universal Studios. Never having acted professionally, I somehow managed to get a seven-year contract. In that same month I married Bones Howe, record producer and bachelor father of three small children. At twenty-one you can do anything.

In my first acting job I was shot dead in the titles of a TV movie. They covered me with a sheet and carted me off to an ambulance. Only my hair showed. But in my next role I starred in a TV movie called Kicks where I shot Mickey Rooney dead. Over the next few years I acted in such movies as: The Ride To Hangman’s Tree co-starring with James Farentino; Coogan’s Bluff with Clint Eastwood; Gaily, Gaily directed by Norman Jewison; Rabbit Run with James Caan; and The Moonshine War, co-starring with Alan Alda.

I was acting and raising my new family. At night I attended the UCLA Extension where I studied creative writing. I still wanted to be a wri

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As I have said I wanted to be a writer but I was "discovered" instead. While attending the University of Southern California I met a man named Hal Landers at a party, who told me, "I can get you a screen test." Growing up in the shadow of Hollywood I had heard offers like this before. But Hal meant it. Within the next week he got me a screen test at MGM. They filmed me from the waist up which caused the studio-heads to think there was something wrong with my legs. Rejected. Universal Studios showed me walking and talking at the same time and I got a contract. Three hundred dollars a week. So I ended up graduating from Universal instead of USC.

On shooting commercials:
What can I say? They call an actor "The Talent" and the product "The Product‚" An example: "Move The Talent further back. She’s getting in the way of The Product."

Ride to Hangman’s Tree
We shot this movie in eight days. I sing and dance in it. I cannot dance. I cannot sing. Acting is the ability to do what you know nothing about, but look like yo