Frances Howard Goldwyn (née McLaughlin; June 4, 1903 – July 2, 1976) was an American actress.

Her mother, nicknamed Bonnie, had been raised a Quaker but converted to Catholicism, and she predeceased her daughter by five years.

They had one son, Samuel Goldwyn Jr..[9] On July 2, 1976,[2] at the age of 73, Howard died in Beverly Hills, California more than a year after being diagnosed with advanced cancer, for which she refused treatment which would have required invasive and disfiguring surgery.

[4] She was funeralized at Church of the Good Shepherd in Beverly Hills and interred next to her husband at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale.

[12][13] The library was funded by The Samuel Goldwyn Foundation in 1982 after the previous building was destroyed by arson.