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Blanche Masek Lovell. Birth. 22 Dec 1895. Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA. Death. 6 Feb 1973 (aged 77) Webster, Harris County, Texas, USA. Burial. Forest Park East Cemetery. Webster, Harris County, Texas, USA Show Map. Plot. Chapel View Mausoleum Courtyard, Level 30, Crypt D. Memorial ID. 125185867. · View Source. Suggest Edits. Memorial.
- Howard’s Wife Has appeared in All of His Movies
- Ron’s Father Lobbied For His Wife to Play Blanche Lovell in ‘Apollo 13’
- The Director Cried at His Mother’s ‘Apollo 13’ Audition
Ron and Cheryl Howard were wed in 1975 and, even before their marriage, she appeared in every single one of the movie maker’s productions. Ron, as he told the Archive of American Televisionin 2006, considers his bride his good luck charm. “We met in high school and at a certain point, I became very superstitious about making sure that she appears, ...
Jean Speegle Howard was an actor herself until she put her career on hold to raise her sons. In Apollo 13, she memorably played Blanche Lovell, mother of astronaut Jim Lovell. One of her most quotable lines from the film was “If they could make a washing machine fly, my Jimmy could land it.” Ron explained that it was his father who suggested Jean f...
Still, Ron agreed to audition his mom, who by that point had returned to acting and had appeared in the film Matilda and on the small screen in Married with Children and Roseanne. Jean had to work for the part even though her son was the film’s director, as Ron toldBrian Williams in 2014 at the Tribeca Film Festival. “I didn’t want to do it at the ...
James Arthur Lovell Jr. was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on March 25, 1928, the only child of James Lovell Sr., a Toronto, Ontario, Canada-born coal furnace salesman who died in a car accident in 1933 [1] and Blanche née Masek, who was of Czech descent. [2]
Blanche Wakefield Lovell, age 90, of State College died Oct 21, 2013 at The Fairways, Brookline Village. Born June 9, 1923 in Huntingdon PA, she was the eldest of four daughters to Jesse H. Wakefield and Leah R. Wakefield.
One of the most memorable lines in "Apollo 13" takes place after Jim Lovell's (Tom Hanks) wife Marilyn (Kathleen Quinlan) tells his mother there's been an accident with the shuttle he's flying...
May 25, 2023 · Mrs. Blanche Lovell, the mother of Navy Lt. Cmdr. James Lovell couldn’t hide her joy after hearing her son has been named as one of America’s newest astronauts. She was in her 60s when he was named an astronaut.
The two women are sitting on either side of the astronaut, answering questions asked by a reporter off camera that refer to Lovell as a young boy in school, his bringing Marilyn home for the first time, how often they all get to see each other, and each woman’s respective health.
