Irene Howley
{{Short description|American actress}}
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Irene Howley was a performer on stage and a film actress in the United States. She was a chorus girl and then a principal performer in vaudeville shows. D. W. Griffith recruited her for film productions.{{cite news |title=Amusements: Irene Howley |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/news-and-record-amusements-irene-howle/140655220/ |access-date=10 February 2024 |work=News and Record |date=13 August 1916 |pages=21}} {{Open access}} She had leading roles.
Sheet music for The Cosey Rag states "Originally Introduced by Irene Howley".{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QtsmQSX7AjIC&dq=irene+Howley&pg=PA5|title=The Cosey Rag|first=Shelton|last=Brooks|date=September 12, 1911|publisher=Will Rossiter|via=Google Books}}
Filmography
- Her Rosary (1913), short film{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5jAXAQAAMAAJ&dq=irene+Howley&pg=RA5-PA127|title=Motion Picture Story Magazine|date=September 12, 1913|publisher=Macfadden-Bartell.|via=Google Books}}
- Under the Gaslight (film) (1914) as Pearl Courtland
- A Yellow Streak (1915) with Lionel Barrymore as Mary Austin
- Life's Shadows (1916 American film) as Madge Morrow
- The Heart of Jennifer (1915) as Agnes Murray{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4MUqAAAAMAAJ&dq=irene+Howley&pg=PA1844|title=Moving Picture World and View Photographer|date=September 12, 1915|publisher=World Photographic Publishing Company|via=Google Books}}
- The Moth and the Flame (1915 film){{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JnhJAQAAMAAJ&dq=irene+Howley&pg=PA856|title=Nickelodeon|date=September 12, 1915|via=Google Books}} as Jeannette Graham
- The Purple Lady{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6tE_AQAAMAAJ&dq=irene+Howley&pg=PA396|title=The Lone Hand|date=September 12, 1918|publisher=W. McLeod|via=Google Books}} (1916) as Fifi Melotte
- Her Father's Keeper{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lWtDAQAAMAAJ&dq=irene+Howley&pg=RA11-PA34|title=Dramatic Mirror of the Stage and Motion Pictures|date=September 12, 1917|publisher=Dramatic Mirror Company|via=Google Books}} (1917) as Claire Masters
- His Father's Son (1917) as Betty Arden
- Is Love Everything? (1924) as Mrs. Rowland