With Friends and Associates - Photos

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Parties

[Leslie Howard attends a costume ball at "Marion Davies'"
(unknown if at Hearst Castle or Davies' house on the beach)
with Kent Douglass aka Douglass Montgomery (his right),
Marion Davies (his left), a non-professional; bottom row: 
William "Buster" Collier or Bruce Cabot (sources disagree),
George K. Arthur, Ramon Navarro and Eileen Percy, 1931)
Modern Screen, August, 1931

[Leslie Howard, Norma Shearer, Gary Cooper,
Elsa Maxwell and Lionel Barrymore are seen here
during the Christmas Eve party given by Cooper
at his home in Hollywood, December 24, 1932]
Modern Screen, April, 1933

[Leslie Howard, Norma Shearer, Gary Cooper,
Elsa Maxwell and Lionel Barrymore are seen here
during the Christmas Eve party given by Cooper
at his home in Hollywood, December 24, 1932]

Modern Screen, April, 1933
Screenland, April, 1933

[Leslie Howard, Norma Shearer, Gary Cooper,
Fredric March and Douglas Fairbanks at a party
given by Cooper at his home in Hollywood,
December 24, 1932]

[Leslie Howard, Mary Pickford and Lionel Barrymore
at a Hollywood party given by Gary Cooper. Other
celebrities at the party included Douglas Fairbanks
and Lilyan Tashman, December 24, 1932]

[Leslie Howard, Mary Pickford and Lionel Barrymore
at a Hollywood party given by Gary Cooper. Other
celebrities at the party included Douglas Fairbanks
and Lilyan Tashman, December 24, 1932]

[Leslie Howard with Mary Pickford
at a Hollywood party given by
Gary Cooper, December 24, 1932]

[Leslie Howard, Mary Pickford and
Gary Cooper at a Hollywood party
given by Cooper, December 24, 1932]

[Leslie Howard, Marion Davies and Sari
Maritza at a party given by Gary Cooper, 1933,
Film Pictorial Gift Supplement, May 10, 1935]

[Leslie Howard chats with Sari Maritza
at a party given by Gary Cooper, 1933]
The New Movie Magazine, May, 1933
Picture Show Annual, 1934

[Leslie Howard, Carole Lombard and
Gary Cooper with Cooper's dog at a party
given for Mary Pickford in Los Angeles, 1933]

[Leslie Howard, Zeppo Marx, Carole Lombard,
Gary Cooper and Mrs. Marx at a party given for
Mary Pickford in Los Angeles, 1933]

[Leslie Howard, Mrs. J. Whitney and
Gary Cooper at a party given for Mary
Pickford at Cooper's home, 1933]

[Leslie Howard, Carole Lombard and
Jack Oakie at a party given for Mary Pickford
at the home of Gary Cooper, 1933]

[Leslie Howard and Joan Crawford at the Mayfair Ball
held at the famed Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, 1933.
Photo was reversed in the magazine.]
Photoplay, January, 1933

[Leslie Howard and Joan Crawford
at the Mayfair Ball held at the famed
Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, 1933]
Photoplay, January, 1933

[Leslie Howard with Mr. and Mrs. Clark Gable,
Joan Crawford wearing suntan makeup that makes
everyone else look ill, along with Heather Angel and
Franchot Tone at a party given by the Gables at
the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, c. 1933]
Photoplay, August, 1933

[Leslie Howard with Mr. and Mrs. Clark Gable and
Mrs. T. E. Martin at the Easter Tea given annually
by Lilyan Tashman and Edmund Lowe in their
Beverly Hills home, April 21, 1933]
Screenland, July, 1933

[Leslie Howard chats with a friend
during the Easter Tea given annually
by Lilyan Tashman and Edmund Lowe
in their home in Beverly Hills,
April 21, 1933]

[Leslie Howard at a party given by Mike Levee for Elsa Maxwell
(dressed as Prof. Einstein at far left). Standing: Jesse L. Lasky,
Maurice Chevalier, Frank Borzage, Leslie Howard, Jean Malin,
and Fredric March. Sitting: Groucho Marx (cut off), Jimmy
Durante and Mike Levee, c. March, 1933]
Modern Screen, June, 1933

[Leslie Howard at a party given by Mike Levee for Elsa Maxwell
(dressed as Prof. Einstein). Standing: Edgar Allen Woolf, Elsa Maxwell,
Jesse L. Lasky, Maurice Chevalier, Frank Borzage, Leslie Howard and
Jean Malin. Sitting: Groucho Marx, Jimmy Durante, Mike Levee,
c. March, 1933]
The New Movie Magazine, April, 1933

[Leslie Howard with Gary Cooper and Charles Farrell
at a party given by Rouben Mamoulian at the
Ambassador Hotel for Marlene Dietrich, May 10, 1933]

[Leslie Howard taking a picture of Gary Cooper and Charles Farrell
at a party given by Rouben Mamoulian at the
Ambassador Hotel for Marlene Dietrich, May 10, 1933]

[Hyman Fynk snaps a picture of Leslie Howard, Gary Cooper and
Charles Farrell at a party given by Rouben Mamoulian at the
Ambassador Hotel for Marlene Dietrich, May 10, 1933]

[Leslie Howard looking smashing in white tie and tails
with Ilka Chase in silver fox black wrap, 1932]

[Leslie Howard with Anita Louise at the Cocoanut Grove, 1937]

[Leslie Howard with Robert Arnold and
Anita Louise as she shows of her ring, c. 1937]
Modern Screen, July, 1937

[Leslie Howard with Joan Crawford
and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., 1933]

[Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer at a party
given by Marion Davies at the preview of
A Midsummer Night's Dream, October 30, 1935]
Photoplay, January, 1936

[Leslie Howard dances with Mary Pickford at a
party she held at Pickfair for Lady Mendl, 1936]
Modern Screen, April, 1936
Radio Mirror, April, 1936

[Leslie Howard dances with Mary Pickford
at a party she held at Pickfair for Lady Mendl, 1936]
Modern Screen, April, 1936

[Leslie Howard dances with Mary Pickford
at a party she held at Pickfair for Lady Mendl, 1936]
Modern Screen, April, 1936

[Leslie Howard with Delmar Daves, Jan Kiepura,
Kay Francis and Gene Raymond at a party Mary Pickford
held at Pickfair for Lady Mendl, 1936]

[Leslie Howard with Delmar Daves, Jan Kiepura, Marta
Eggerth, Kay Francis and Gene Raymond at a party
Mary Pickford held at Pickfair for Lady Mendl, 1936]
Hollywood, April, 1936

[Leslie Howard with Delmer Daves, Kay Francis and Gene Raymond
at a party Mary Pickford held at Pickfair for Lady Mendl, 1936]
Photoplay, April, 1936

[Leslie Howard, nursing a sprain he received during
his dueling scene in Romeo and Juliet, Mrs. Hal Roach,
Norma Shearer and Thomas Hitchcock, Jr. at a
ball marking the close of race season, 1936]
Hollywood, May, 1936

[Leslie Howard with Gene Raymond, Dolores Del Rio
and her husband, Cedric Gibbons at the annual banquet
of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences
held in the Fiesta Room of the Ambassador Hotel.
Howard was nominated for Best Performance by an
Actor, March 16, 1934]
Hollywood, June, 1934

[Leslie Howard, IIona Massey, Sylvia Ashley
and Douglas Fairbanks, c. mid to late 1930's]

Premiers

[Leslie Howard with his wife, Ruth Martin,
along with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Montgomery
at the premiere of Strange Interlude,  July, 1932]
Modern Screen, July, 1932

[Leslie Howard with his wife, Ruth Martin,
along with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Montgomery
at the premiere of Strange Interlude, July, 1932]
Modern Screen, October, 1932

[Leslie Howard with his wife, Ruth Martin, and
Norma Shearer outside the theatre premiering
The Great Ziegfeld, March 22, 1936]

[Leslie Howard with his wife, Ruth Martin,
Norma Shearer and Mary Gargan outside the theatre
premiering The Great Ziegfeld, March 22, 1936]

[Leslie Howard with his wife, Ruth Martin, Irving Thalberg,
Norma Shearer and William and Mary Gargan outside the
theatre premiering The Great Ziegfeld, March 22, 1936]
Hollywood, July, 1936

[Leslie Howard with his wife, Ruth Martin, Irving Thalberg,
Norma Shearer, Louis B. Meyer and William Gargan outside
the theatre premiering The Great Ziegfeld, March 22, 1936]

[Leslie Howard with his wife, Ruth Martin, their
guest and Richard and Jessica Barthelmess at
the opening of Noël Coward's Cavalcade, 1933]
Screenland, April, 1933

[Leslie Howard with his wife, Ruth Martin, and
Richard Barthelmess at the opening of
Noel Coward's Cavalcade, 1933]
Screenland, April, 1933

[Leslie Howard and Katharine Hepburn
leaving a private screening at Jessie Lasky's
beach home in Santa Monica, May 12, 1933]

[Leslie Howard and Claudette Colbert at the opening
of Earl Carroll's Theatre on Sunset Blvd, December 26, 1938]

Polo and Cricket

[Leslie Howard on the polo field taken by Ken Murray]
Leslie Howard on the Polo Field

[Leslie Howard on the polo field taken by

Ken Murray and shown on The Judy Garland Show.

That's Judy's voice in the background]

Same film as above with a little extra at the end

[Leslie Howard, the famous poloist, Snowy Baker, and
James Gleason at the Greyhounds-Panthers battle at the
Rivera Country Club in Santa Monica, June 21, 1933]

[Leslie Howard with Carole Lombard as she presents trophies to the
Screen Actors Polo Team winners James Gleason, Will Rogers,
Spencer Tracy and Johnny Mack Brown. They beat the producers'
team 9 to 3 at the Uplifters Fields in Santa Monica, May 21, 1934]

[Leslie Howard with Carole Lombard as she presents trophies to the
Screen Actors Polo Team winners James Gleason, Will Rogers,
Spencer Tracy and Johnny Mack Brown. They beat the producers'
team 9 to 3 at the Uplifters Fields in Santa Monica, May 21, 1934]

[Leslie Howard with Walt Disney, May 21, 1934]

[Leslie Howard with his wife, Ruth Martin,
Pat DeCicco, Claudette Colbert and Aiden
Roark, June 14, 1934]

[Leslie Howard with tour organiser, Arthur Mailey, Boris Karloff,
Leslie's wife, Ruth Martin, Desmond Roberts and Australia's, Vic
 Richardson during the tea interval of Australia's match against
the Hollywood Cricket XI at the University Campus Grounds,
August 26, 1932]

[Leslie Howard with Nigel Bruce and Snowy Baker, 1934]
The New Movie Magazine, June, 1934

[Leslie Howard with Helen Hayes and Robert Montgomery]

[Leslie Howard with Edna Best
at a polo match, 1934]
Modern Screen, June, 1934

[Leslie Howard with Spencer Tracy,
Madeleine Carroll and his wife, Ruth Martin]

Friends and Associates

[Leslie Howard with his stand-in, Richard Foster]

[Leslie Howard with his stand-in, Richard Foster]

[Leslie Howard with either Walt Disney—probably comparing
polo scores—or Spanish actor, Hierro Nieto. It's very hard to tell.
If Nieto, it would be in Madrid in May, 1943]

[Leslie Howard with Margalo Gillmore, New York, 1926]

[Leslie Howard and his wife, Ruth Martin, were greeted at the
Los Angeles station upon their return to Hollywood by Mr. and
Mrs. Clark Gable, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Claudette Colbert,
and Douglas Fairbanks and Joan Crawford]

[Leslie Howard and Valerie Hobson
in an air raid shelter, c. 1940]

[Leslie Howard and Marie Glory,
French actress, c. 1940]

[Leslie Howard and William K. Howard (no relation), 1937]

[Leslie Howard with Austrian writer Vicki Baum, author of
Grand Hotel, in Sardi's Restaurant, NYC, c. 1932]
Modern Screen, July, 1932

[Leslie Howard with his wife, Ruth Martin, and
daughter, Leslie Ruth, and M. C. Miguel]

[Leslie Howard and Claudette Colbert
became friends when she was appearing
on the Chicago stage in 1926 and often
played tennis together, c. 1926]
Hollywood, June, 1934

[Leslie Howard and Olivia de Havilland, 1939]

[Leslie Howard with Marion Davies probably from
Howard's home movies taken at San Simeon]

[Leslie Howard with Marion Davies probably from
Howard's home movies taken at San Simeon]

[Leslie Howard escorts Madeleine Carroll, the Ann Harding of
England, to the train, The Movie Magazine, August, 1934]

[Leslie Howard with Basil Rathbone]

[Leslie Howard sporting a mustache presenting the
Iron Cross to a "Lord Haw-Haw" impersonator]

Noël Coward

[Leslie Howard with Noël Coward aboard the Normandie, November, 1938]

[Leslie Howard and Noël Coward aboard the Normandie, November 1938]

[Leslie Howard and Noël Coward in the
National Savings public service message, 1942]

[Leslie Howard and Noël Coward on the set
of the National Savings public service message, 1942]

Leslie Howard and Noël Coward in the National Savings Trailer, 1942

Noël Coward's Home Movies, 1930's

Violette Cunnington

[Leslie Howard with Violette Cunnington]

[Leslie Howard with Violette Cunnington and
sculptor, Oscar Nemon, standing in front of
Howard's now missing bust, 1942]

[Leslie Howard with Marlene Dietrich and
Violette Cunnington in Palm Springs, 1939]

William Gargan

[Leslie Howard with his wife, Ruth Martin,
their son, Ronald, and William and Mary Gargan]

[Leslie Howard with Bill Gargan's son,
Leslie Howard Gargan]

[Leslie Howard with William Gargan, 1934]

[Leslie Howard with Bill Gargan, Fred McMurray,
W. C. Fields and George Arliss]

[Leslie Howard with William Gargan]
The New Movie Magazine, October, 1934

Dietrich

[Leslie Howard with Marlene Dietrich, 1933]
Screenland, August, 1933

[Leslie Howard with Marlene Dietrich
in Palm Springs, 1939]

[Leslie Howard, Marlene Dietrich and
Violette Cunnington in Palm Springs, 1939]

[Leslie Howard with Marlene Dietrich
in Palm Springs, 1939]

[Leslie Howard with Marlene Dietrich
in Palm Springs, 1939]

Merle Oberon

[Leslie Howard and Merle Oberon, 1935]

[Leslie Howard and Merle Oberon, 1935]

[Leslie Howard and Merle Oberon holding hands
at the time they were both filming
The Scarlet Pimpernel, England, 1934]
Screenland, April, 1935

1943

[Leslie Howard with Alfred Chenhalls, May, 1943]

[Leslie Howard with Alfred Chenhalls. Both
were killed when the civilian aircraft carrying
them from Portugal to England was shot down
by Nazis over the Bay of Biscay on June 1, 1943]

[Leslie Howard in Lisbon, May, 1943]

[Leslie Howard visits the British Institute during
his stay in Madrid. Among the guests is the
Institute's director, Walter Starkie]

[Leslie Howard signs autographs in Lisbon, May, 1943]

[Leslie Howard with Helen Gerassi, Alexander Gulberkian
and Alfred Chenhalls at the Aviz Hotel in Lisbon in May.
Howard and Chenhalls were killed when their plane was
shot down by Nazis over the Bay of Biscay, 1943]

[Leslie Howard with Conchita Montenegro,
his co-star in Never the Twain Shall Meet
(1931), in Madrid, May, 1943]

[Leslie Howard with Conchita Montenegro,
his co-star in Never the Twain Shall Meet
(1931), in Madrid, May, 1943]

[Leslie Howard at a picnic party on the beach at Praia das Macas
given by the Air Attaché, Jack Schreiber, and his wife shortly
before Howard's death. Also in attendance were Alfred T. Chenhalls,
Philip Newman and Tyrrell Shervington. Sunday, May 30, 1943]

[Leslie Howard with Philip Newman,
violinist, in Lisbon, May, 1943]

[Leslie Howard saying goodbye to violinist, Philip Newman,
Portugal, May, 1943. Photo from Philip Newman
Archives, Royal Northern College of Music]

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