Beth Howland was born on May 28, 2024 in Boston, Massachusetts. She died on December 31, 2023 in Santa Monica, California, aged 74. According to his husband, Charles Kimbrough, she died of lung cancer.
Howland was an actress, known for "Alice (1976)," "A Caribbean Mystery (1983)" and "You Can't Take It with You (1979)".
In the mid to late 60s, she was the Salem Cigarette girl in television. She frequently appeared on the Broadway stage in the 1960s, into the early 1970s, most notably as Amy in Stephen Sondheim's "Company".
From 1976 to 1985, Howland played the "ditsy but lovable" Vera Louise Gorman, one of three waitress characters on "Alice," a sitcom set in a diner in Phoenix.