[1][2] After studying at RADA, she was spotted by film director Anthony Asquith in a play at London's Embassy Theatre.

He cast the 19-year-old in Freedom Radio (1941), and starring roles in films followed, including opposite James Mason in The Night Has Eyes and They Met in the Dark, the former winning her rave reviews.

After her divorce from Sydney, Howard married American psychoanalyst Joel Shor, and moved to California in 1964.

To support her family as a single mother, she embarked on a third career as a story analyst for network television.

She also continued to write for television and wrote original treatments for the miniseries The Whiteoaks and Picasso's Painted Ladies.