I Love My Husband, But—

[Leslie Howard as Peter Standish
in Berkeley Square, 1933

Norma Shearer, in an article "I love my husband, but—" for Modern Screen, June 1935, describes Leslie Howard:

"There was Leslie Howard . . . Leslie, true spiritual, who can wear the lace frills and bend the knee with such grace and conviction. Leslie with those amazing blue eyes that so 
dreamily can contemplate the past and then suddenly become electrified with a fervent contemplation of the present. Leslie who, in Berkeley Square (1933) said, 'I love you,' and said it more divinely than it has ever been said before. Leslie who, when kissing one woman, makes every woman in the audience feel as though she has been kissed, too.

Leslie attracts women because he has a great sex magnetism. Ah, that surprises you! But it is so. Leslie is the prefect combination of the physical and the spiritual. He conveys the feeling of romance which endured through the ages, of love everlasting. That is why as Mooneyeen Clare, it was so easy for me to respond to Leslie for that little, lovely while...."

[Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer
in Smilin' Through, 1932]

[Leslie Howard and Heather Angel
in Berkeley Square, 1933]

[Leslie Howard and Heather Angel
in Berkeley Square, 1933]

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