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Leslie Howard Steiner (3 April 1893 – 1 June 1943) was an English actor, director, producer and writer. [ 1 ] 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 ...
Leslie John Howard (born 29 April 1948) is an Australian pianist, musicologist and composer. He is best known for being the only pianist to have recorded the complete solo piano works of Franz Liszt , a project which included more than 300 premiere recordings.
Leslie Howard’s glittering career and complex personal life was cut tragically short in mysterious circumstances during World War 2.
Actor Leslie Howard was the best-known of the 17 crew and passengers aboard BOAC Flight 777. The most intense intrigue surrounded actor Leslie Howard who was at the peak of his career and had world fame after The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) and Gone with the Wind (1939).
Intermezzo (1939 film) Intermezzo. (1939 film) Intermezzo (also called Intermezzo: A Love Story) is a 1939 American romantic film remake of the 1936 Swedish film of the same title. It stars Leslie Howard as a married virtuoso violinist who falls in love with his accompanist, played by Ingrid Bergman in her Hollywood debut.
Pygmalion (1938 film) Pygmalion. (1938 film) Pygmalion is a 1938 British film based on the 1913 George Bernard Shaw play of the same name, and adapted by him for the screen. It stars Leslie Howard as Professor Henry Higgins and Wendy Hiller as Eliza Doolittle. The film was a financial and critical success, and won an Oscar for Best Screenplay ...
English, Italian, German. The First of the Few (US title Spitfire) is a 1942 British black-and-white biographical film produced and directed by Leslie Howard, who stars as R. J. Mitchell, the designer of the Supermarine Spitfire fighter aircraft. David Niven co-stars as a Royal Air Force officer and test pilot, a composite character that ...
British Agent is a 1934 American romantic espionage film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Leslie Howard and Kay Francis.It is based on Memoirs of a British Agent, the 1932 autobiography of R. H. Bruce Lockhart, who worked for the British Secret Service during the Russian Revolution and had an affair with a Russian agent, later known as Moura Budberg.