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LESLIE HOWARD

THE LESLIE HOWARD GALLERY:
STIFF UPPER LIP AND A SPINE OF STEEL

Highlights from some of Leslie's best-known films

"THE ANIMAL KINGDOM" (1932)

Tom Collier (Leslie Howard) has an intimate and loving friendship with artist Daisy Sage (Ann Harding)...

...but he marries the fascinating yet aloof and materialistic Cecilia Henry (Myrna Loy).

"BERKELEY SQUARE" (1933)

A promo for the time-traveling romance film; Leslie Howard was nominated for Best Actor. That's Heather Angel portraying Leslie's love interest.

"OF HUMAN BONDAGE" (1934)

Callow waitress Mildred Rogers (Bette Davis) scorns the affections of crippled artist and medical student Philip Carey (Leslie Howard). Rumor had it relations between the two stars were cool at best.

"ROMEO AND JULIET" (1936)

A poster for the most famous Shakespearean romance of all. This first major Hollywood production of the play starred Leslie Howard and elegant MGM diva Norma Shearer.

"Romeo" with director George Cukor.

Although considered extremely long-in-the-tooth to portray Romeo, Leslie Howard's displayed a youthful agility in lovemaking scenes like this to the film crew since the censorship office demanded that any scene in bed between a man and woman required one foot of one of the performers to remain on the floor.

"IT'S LOVE I'M AFTER" (1937)

Basil Underwood (Leslie Howard) hopes a little ungentlemanly behavior drives an infatuated Marcia (Olivia de Havilland) back into the arms of his friend.

"INTERMEZZO" (1939)

Holger Brandt (Leslie Howard) is a married composer and violinist who falls in love with his daughter's nanny Anita (Ingrid Bergman).

Holger and Anita - on tour and in love. But will Anita be able to continue the relationship beneath the burdens of his family and her professional dreams?

"GONE WITH THE WIND" (1939)

Leslie's best-known but least personally-loved role - that of the dreamy and honorable yet mightily-tempted Confederate soldier Ashley Wilkes. Here he is greeted at the train station for Christmas leave by his delicate, gentle wife Melanie (Olivia de Havilland) and the woman he desires - most famous screen vixen of all time, Scarlett O'Hara (portrayed by FashionState.Com honoree Vivien Leigh).

In a private moment, Ashley beseeches Scarlett to look after Melanie while he is away...and should he never come back.

"49th PARALLEL" (1941)

Leslie Howard and Laurence Olivier starred in this vehicle about a stranded German U-boat in Canadian waters searching for neutral ground in the United States - before the U.S.A. became part of the Allied team!

THE LESLIE HOWARD GALLERY

LESLIE HOWARD: STIFF UPPER LIP & A SPINE OF STEEL
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