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Leslie Howard
Leslie Howard Steiner (3 April 1893 – 1 June 1943) was an English actor, director and producer. He wrote many stories and articles for The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair and was one of the biggest box-office draws and movie idols of the 1930s.
Active in both Britain and Hollywood, Howard played Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind (1939). He had roles in many other films, often playing the quintessential Englishman, including Berkeley Square (1933), Of Human Bondage (1934), The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934), The Petrified Forest (1936), Pygmalion (1938), Intermezzo (1939), "Pimpernel" Smith (1941), and The First of the Few (1942). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for Berkeley Square and Pygmalion.
Howard's World War II activities included acting and filmmaking. He helped to make anti-German propaganda and shore up support for the Allies—two years after his death the British Film Yearbook described Howard's work as "one of the most valuable facets of British propaganda". He was rumoured to have been involved with British or Allied Intelligence, sparking conspiracy theories regarding his death in 1943 when the Luftwaffe shot down BOAC Flight 777 over the Atlantic (off the coast of Cedeira, A Coruña), on which he was a passenger.
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Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
The Petrified Forest: Menace in the Desert
Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland
Complicated Women
Glorious Technicolor
Bogart: The Untold Story
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
The Gentle Sex
The First of the Few
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
The White Eagle
In Which We Serve
49th Parallel
"Pimpernel" Smith
From the Four Corners
Gone with the Wind
Intermezzo: A Love Story
Pygmalion
It's Love I'm After
Stand-In
Romeo and Juliet
The Petrified Forest
Breakdowns of 1936
Master Will Shakespeare
The Scarlet Pimpernel