I am so grateful to Ginevra Di Verduno and her sites Leslie Howard Forever and Inafferrabile (Elusive) Leslie Howard for preserving the memory of Leslie Howard. To see Leslie with more friends and associates, visit:
Leslie Howard Forever, More People or Inafferrabile Leslie Howard, Leslie, Friends and Other Celebrities
Parties
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| [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 |
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| [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 |
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| [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] |
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| [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] |
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| [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] |
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| [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] |
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| [Leslie Howard with Mary Pickford at a Hollywood party given by Gary Cooper, December 24, 1932] |
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| [Leslie Howard, Mary Pickford and Gary Cooper at a Hollywood party given by Cooper, December 24, 1932] |
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| [Leslie Howard, Marion Davies and Sari Maritza at a party given by Gary Cooper, 1933, Film Pictorial Gift Supplement, May 10, 1935] |
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| [Leslie Howard chats with Sari Maritza at a party given by Gary Cooper, 1933] The New Movie Magazine, May, 1933 Picture Show Annual, 1934 |
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| [Leslie Howard, Carole Lombard and Gary Cooper with Cooper's dog at a party given for Mary Pickford in Los Angeles, 1933] |
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| [Leslie Howard, Zeppo Marx, Carole Lombard, Gary Cooper and Mrs. Marx at a party given for Mary Pickford in Los Angeles, 1933] |
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| [Leslie Howard, Mrs. J. Whitney and Gary Cooper at a party given for Mary Pickford at Cooper's home, 1933] |
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| [Leslie Howard, Carole Lombard and Jack Oakie at a party given for Mary Pickford at the home of Gary Cooper, 1933] |
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| [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 |
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| [Leslie Howard and Joan Crawford at the Mayfair Ball held at the famed Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, 1933] Photoplay, January, 1933 |
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| [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 |
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| [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 |
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| [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] |
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| [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 |
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| [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 |
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| [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] |
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| [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] |
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| [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] |
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| [Leslie Howard looking smashing in white tie and tails with Ilka Chase in silver fox black wrap, 1932] |
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| [Leslie Howard with Anita Louise at the Cocoanut Grove, 1937] |
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| [Leslie Howard with Robert Arnold and Anita Louise as she shows of her ring, c. 1937] Modern Screen, July, 1937 |
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| [Leslie Howard with Joan Crawford and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., 1933] |
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| [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 |
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| [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 |
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| [Leslie Howard dances with Mary Pickford at a party she held at Pickfair for Lady Mendl, 1936] Modern Screen, April, 1936 |
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| [Leslie Howard dances with Mary Pickford at a party she held at Pickfair for Lady Mendl, 1936] Modern Screen, April, 1936 |
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| [Leslie Howard with Delmar Daves, Jan Kiepura, Kay Francis and Gene Raymond at a party Mary Pickford held at Pickfair for Lady Mendl, 1936] |
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| [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 |
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| [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 |
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| [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 |
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| [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 |
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| [Leslie Howard, IIona Massey, Sylvia Ashley and Douglas Fairbanks, c. mid to late 1930's] |
Premiers
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| [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 |
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| [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 |
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| [Leslie Howard with his wife, Ruth Martin, and Norma Shearer outside the theatre premiering The Great Ziegfeld, March 22, 1936] |
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| [Leslie Howard with his wife, Ruth Martin, Norma Shearer and Mary Gargan outside the theatre premiering The Great Ziegfeld, March 22, 1936] |
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| [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 |
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| [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] |
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| [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 |
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| [Leslie Howard with his wife, Ruth Martin, and Richard Barthelmess at the opening of Noel Coward's Cavalcade, 1933] Screenland, April, 1933 |
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| [Leslie Howard and Katharine Hepburn leaving a private screening at Jessie Lasky's beach home in Santa Monica, May 12, 1933] |
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| [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 and shown on The Judy Garland Show.
That's Judy's voice in the background]
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| [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] |
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| [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] |
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| [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] |
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| [Leslie Howard with Walt Disney, May 21, 1934] |
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| [Leslie Howard with his wife, Ruth Martin, Pat DeCicco, Claudette Colbert and Aiden Roark, June 14, 1934] |
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| [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] |
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| [Leslie Howard with Nigel Bruce and Snowy Baker, 1934] The New Movie Magazine, June, 1934 |
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| [Leslie Howard with Helen Hayes and Robert Montgomery] |
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| [Leslie Howard with Edna Best at a polo match, 1934] Modern Screen, June, 1934 |
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| [Leslie Howard with Spencer Tracy, Madeleine Carroll and his wife, Ruth Martin] |
Friends and Associates
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| [Leslie Howard with his stand-in, Richard Foster] |
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| [Leslie Howard with his stand-in, Richard Foster] |
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| [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] |
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| [Leslie Howard with Margalo Gillmore, New York, 1926] |
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| [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] |
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| [Leslie Howard and Valerie Hobson in an air raid shelter, c. 1940] |
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| [Leslie Howard and Marie Glory, French actress, c. 1940] |
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| [Leslie Howard and William K. Howard (no relation), 1937] |
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| [Leslie Howard with Austrian writer Vicki Baum, author of Grand Hotel, in Sardi's Restaurant, NYC, c. 1932] Modern Screen, July, 1932 |
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| [Leslie Howard with his wife, Ruth Martin, and daughter, Leslie Ruth, and M. C. Miguel] |
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| [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 |
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| [Leslie Howard and Olivia de Havilland, 1939] |
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| [Leslie Howard with Marion Davies probably from Howard's home movies taken at San Simeon] |
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| [Leslie Howard with Marion Davies probably from Howard's home movies taken at San Simeon] |
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| [Leslie Howard escorts Madeleine Carroll, the Ann Harding of England, to the train, The Movie Magazine, August, 1934] |
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| [Leslie Howard with Basil Rathbone] |
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| [Leslie Howard sporting a mustache presenting the Iron Cross to a "Lord Haw-Haw" impersonator] |
Noël Coward
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| [Leslie Howard with Noël Coward aboard the Normandie, November, 1938] |
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| [Leslie Howard and Noël Coward aboard the Normandie, November 1938] |
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| [Leslie Howard and Noël Coward in the National Savings public service message, 1942] |
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| [Leslie Howard and Noël Coward on the set of the National Savings public service message, 1942] |
Violette Cunnington
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| [Leslie Howard with Violette Cunnington] |
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| [Leslie Howard with Violette Cunnington and sculptor, Oscar Nemon, standing in front of Howard's now missing bust, 1942] |
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| [Leslie Howard with Marlene Dietrich and Violette Cunnington in Palm Springs, 1939] |
William Gargan
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| [Leslie Howard with his wife, Ruth Martin, their son, Ronald, and William and Mary Gargan] |
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| [Leslie Howard with Bill Gargan's son, Leslie Howard Gargan] |
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| [Leslie Howard with William Gargan, 1934] |
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| [Leslie Howard with Bill Gargan, Fred McMurray, W. C. Fields and George Arliss] |
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| [Leslie Howard with William Gargan] The New Movie Magazine, October, 1934 |
Dietrich
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| [Leslie Howard with Marlene Dietrich, 1933] Screenland, August, 1933 |
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| [Leslie Howard with Marlene Dietrich in Palm Springs, 1939] |
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| [Leslie Howard, Marlene Dietrich and Violette Cunnington in Palm Springs, 1939] |
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| [Leslie Howard with Marlene Dietrich in Palm Springs, 1939] |
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| [Leslie Howard with Marlene Dietrich in Palm Springs, 1939] |
Merle Oberon
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| [Leslie Howard and Merle Oberon, 1935] |
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| [Leslie Howard and Merle Oberon, 1935] |
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| [Leslie Howard and Merle Oberon holding hands at the time they were both filming The Scarlet Pimpernel, England, 1934] Screenland, April, 1935 |
1943
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| [Leslie Howard with Alfred Chenhalls, May, 1943] |
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| [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] |
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| [Leslie Howard in Lisbon, May, 1943] |
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| [Leslie Howard visits the British Institute during his stay in Madrid. Among the guests is the Institute's director, Walter Starkie] |
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| [Leslie Howard signs autographs in Lisbon, May, 1943] |
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| [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] |
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| [Leslie Howard with Conchita Montenegro, his co-star in Never the Twain Shall Meet (1931), in Madrid, May, 1943] |
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| [Leslie Howard with Conchita Montenegro, his co-star in Never the Twain Shall Meet (1931), in Madrid, May, 1943] |
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| [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] |
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| [Leslie Howard with Philip Newman, violinist, in Lisbon, May, 1943] |
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| [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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