Leslie Howard: With Family

With Family - Photos

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Leslie Howard Forever, Family Life or Inafferrabile Leslie Howard, Leslie the Man

[Leslie Howard with his sister, Irene, snapped
just after Leslie had enlisted in the
early years of WWI, c. 1915

[Leslie Howard with his wife, Ruth Martin, taken
by paparazzi in La Quinta, California, c. 1934]

[Leslie Howard and his son,
Ronald "Winkie," born April 7, 1918]

[Leslie Howard with his daughter,
Leslie Ruth "Doodie," born October 18, 1924]

[Leslie Howard with his daughter,
Leslie Ruth "Doodie," in 1925]

[Leslie Howard with his son, Ronald, c. 1925]

Leslie Howard and Family in Home Movies

[Leslie Howard and wife, Ruth Martin, and
daughter, Leslie Ruth "Doodie," in early 30's]

[Leslie Howard with his daughter, Leslie Ruth "Doodie,"
in a still from Howard's home movies]

[Leslie Howard with his son, Ronald,
and daughter, Leslie Ruth "Doodie"]

[Leslie Howard with his daughter, Leslie Ruth "Doodie"]

[Leslie Howard holding a kitten with
his daughter, Leslie Ruth "Doodie,"
at their home in Bramley, Surrey, England.]

[Leslie Howard with his daughter,
Leslie Ruth "Doodie"]

[Leslie Howard with his wife, Ruth Martin, their son, Ronald,
and daughter, Leslie Ruth "Doodie," in their walled
garden at their home in Bramley, Surrey, England]

[Leslie Howard and his daughter,
Leslie Ruth "Doodie," 1934]
Photoplay, March, 1934

[Leslie Howard with his daughter,
Leslie Ruth "Doodie," at
home in England, c. 1934]
Modern Screen, March, 1934
Screenland, April, 1934

[Leslie Howard with his daughter, Leslie Ruth,
at work on the lawn of their home in England, c. 1934]
Silver Screen, April, 1934

[Leslie Howard with his daughter,
Leslie Ruth, at their home in England, 1934]
Modern Screen, March, 1934

[Leslie Howard's wife, Ruth Martin, their son,
Ronald, and daughter, Leslie Ruth "Doodie,"
at their home in Beverly Hills, 1934]

[Leslie Howard relaxing at home from
his collection of home movies]

[Leslie Howard relaxing by the pool
in a scene from one of his home movies]

[Leslie Howard checking out the map with his
wife, Ruth Martin from his home movies]

[Leslie Howard and his daughter, Leslie Ruth "Doodie,"
having fun in the snow in a still from Howard's home movies]

[Leslie Howard and his daughter, Leslie Ruth "Doodie,"
having fun in the snow in Howard's home movies]

[Leslie Howard is shown photographing his son,
Ronald, who is in the pool, February 3, 1933]

[Leslie Howard with his wife, Ruth Martin, their son,
Ronald, and daughter, Leslie Ruth "Doodie"]

[Leslie Howard with his daughter, Leslie Ruth,
in the garden of one of their Hollywood houses]

[Leslie Howard with his son, Ronald, in Palm Springs]

[Leslie Howard with his son, Ronald, 1934]

[Leslie Howard with his children, Ronald
and Leslie Ruth "Doodie," Bermuda, 1935]
Radio Mirror, October, 1935

[Leslie Howard with his son, Ronald, and
daughter, Leslie Ruth "Doodie,"
on the beach in Malibu, c. 1934]
Photoplay, July, 1934

[Leslie Howard with his wife, Ruth Martin, their son,
Ronald, and daughter, Leslie Ruth "Doodie," in Bermuda, 1935]

[Leslie Howard with his son, Ronald, and his daughter,
Leslie Ruth "Doodie," on the beach while visiting
William Beebe in Bermuda, 1935]

[Leslie Howard with his wife, Ruth Martin, and their children, Ronald
and Leslie Ruth, reading the comics in their Beverly Hills home, 1936]

[Leslie Howard with his daughter, Leslie Ruth,
at the swimming pool of the home
of Lily Pons in Hollywood]

[Leslie Howard with his wife, Ruth Martin, their
son, Ronald, and daughter, Leslie Ruth, c. 1933]
The New Movie Magazine, July, 1933

[Leslie Howard with his wife, Ruth Martin,
and his daughter, Leslie Ruth, c. 1933]
Picture Play Magazine, July, 1933

[Leslie Howard and his daughter, Leslie Ruth
"Doodie," at home in Beverly Hills, 1936]

[Leslie Howard and his daughter, Leslie Ruth "Doodie," 1936]

[Leslie Howard and his daughter, Leslie Ruth
"Doodie," at home in Beverly Hills, 1936]

[Leslie Howard with his daughter, Leslie Ruth]

[Leslie Howard with his wife, Ruth Martin, and
daughter, Leslie Ruth "Doodie," boarding a train
in London after filming Berkeley Square, 1933]
Photoplay, September, 1933

[Leslie Howard with his wife, Ruth Martin, and
daughter, Leslie Ruth, arriving in London's
Grand Central after filming Berkeley Square, 1933]
Photoplay, March, 1934

[Leslie Howard with his wife, Ruth Martin, and

daughter, Leslie Ruth "Doodie," arriving in London's

Grand Central after filming Berkeley Square, 1933]

Modern Screen, September, 1933

[Leslie Howard with his daughter, Leslie Ruth "Doodie"]

[Leslie Howard and his daughter, Leslie Ruth,
reading together on the terrace of their
New York apartment, March, 1933]
The New Movie Magazine, April, 1933

[For New Movie Magazine: Leslie Howard and his
daughter, Leslie Ruth "Doodie," reading together on the
terrace of their New York apartment, March, 1933. His
wife, Ruth Martin, is pictured in inset. Caption:
Leslie Howard is an ideal husband and father.
Here he is in his New York apartment with
his daughter. Mrs. Howard ... bubbling and joyous.]
The New Movie Magazine, April, 1933

[Leslie Howard with his son, Ronald]

[Ruth Martin, wife of the Leslie Howard, her daughter,
Leslie Ruth, 10, and her son, Ronald, 17, pictured as
they arrived in New York City, on the S.S. Olympic.
They are in America to join Mr. Howard, December 19, 1934]
Screenland, March, 1935

[Leslie Howard with his
daughter, Leslie Ruth, c. 1934]
Modern Screen, October, 1934

[Leslie Howard's son, Ronald, c. 1934]
Modern Screen, October, 1934

[Leslie Howard with his daughter, Leslie Ruth "Doodie]

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

[Leslie Howard with his wife, Ruth Martin, their son,
Ronald, and daughter, Leslie Ruth "Doodie," aboard
the Queen Mary in 1935]

[Leslie Howard with his daughter, Leslie Ruth "Doodie"]

[Leslie Ruth Howard, daughter of actor Leslie Howard,
by Horst P. Horst for Vogue, June 9, 1932]

[Leslie Howard and his son, Ronald, c. 1935]

[Leslie Howard with his daughter, Leslie Ruth "Doodie]

[Leslie Howard and his daughter, Leslie Ruth "Doodie,"

arriving in Southampton aboard the Queen Mary, 1937]

[Leslie Howard and his daughter, Leslie Ruth "Doodie,"
arriving in Southampton aboard the Queen Mary, 1937]

[Leslie Howard and his daughter, Leslie Ruth,
taking ownership of a new Bentley]

[Leslie Howard and his wife, Ruth, arrive at a polo match
held at Stoke D'Abernon in their Alvin Speed 20]

[Leslie Howard with his daughter, Leslie Ruth "Doodie,"
in a still from one of his home movies at
Stowe Maries, Dorking near Surrey, 1941]

[Leslie Howard on a plane with his daughter,

Leslie Ruth, from his home movies]

Leslie Howard On A Plane

[Leslie Howard with his son, Ronald, and
daughter, Leslie Ruth "Doodie." One of
the last peacetime pictures they took together]

[Leslie Howard with his children, Ronald and Leslie Ruth "Doodie"

[Leslie Howard with his wife, Ruth Martin, son, Ronald "Winkie," their
Yorkshire terrier and cocker spaniel at their home at Stowe Maries, 1937]

[Leslie Howard with his wife, Ruth Martin, and their son,
Ronald, at their family home Stowe Maries
near Dorking, Surrey, June 15, 1938]

[Leslie Howard with his son, Ronald, and his daughter,
Leslie Ruth "Doodie," at his home Stowe Maries
near Dorking, Surrey, in 1939]

[Leslie Howard and his son, Ronald, studying parts in plays]

[Leslie Howard with his daughter, Leslie Ruth,
at their home at Stowe Maries, England, 1938]

[Leslie Howard and his daughter, Leslie Ruth "Doodie," c. 1933]

[Leslie Howard with his wife, Ruth Martin, and son,
Ronald, at the Ted Lewis opening at the Cocoanut Grove.
Photo appeared in Modern Screen, April, 1936]

[Leslie Howard and his wife, Ruth, with their son,
Ronald, in Chicago en route to Hollywood, 1937]

[Leslie Howard with his son, Ronald,
Hotel Carlyle, New York, 1935]

[Leslie Howard and his daughter, Leslie Ruth, standing
in the air-raid shelter built at Stowe Maries at
the time of the Munich crisis, England, 1938]

[Leslie Howard with his daughter, Leslie
Ruth, near their home in England, c. 1938]

[Leslie Howard with his daughter, Leslie Ruth "Doodie,"
at her wedding to Captain Robert Dale Harris
in Wottom, near Dorking, Surrey, 1939]

[Leslie Howard with his wife, Ruth Martin, and their daughter,
Leslie Ruth, at her wedding to Canadian, Robert Dale-Harris]

[Leslie Howard with his wife, Ruth Martin, their son,
Ronald, and Fay Compton on their way to
Leslie's brother's wedding in London]

[Leslie Howard with his wife, Ruth Martin,
and Fay Compton at the wedding of his brother,
Arthur, Brompton Oratory, 1936]

[Leslie Howard, his sister, Dorice, wife, Ruth Martin, and daughter,
Leslie Ruth "Doodie," skiing at Kitzbühel, Austria,
in the midst of shooting Pygmalion in 1938]

[Leslie Howard and his daughter,
Leslie Ruth, make their last trip
back to England, January, 1940]

[Leslie Howard with his wife, Ruth Martin, 1933]

[Leslie Howard with his wife, Ruth Martin]

[Leslie Howard with his wife, Ruth Martin. This picture was
taken at a farewell party also attended by Walter Winchell
given for the Howards by Mike Levee, his agent, just before
they left for their vacation in England, c. 1933]
Modern Screen, September, 1933

[Leslie Howard and his wife, Ruth Martin, nightclubbing
at the Club New Yorker in Hollywood. They are rarely
seen together because Mrs. Howard lives in Del Monte
where the two Howard children attend school, while
Mr. Howard lives in Hollywood through the week, busy
with picture-making, and spends his weekends
with his family, January 9, 1933]

[Leslie Howard with his wife, Ruth Martin]

[Leslie Howard with his children, Ronald and Leslie Ruth "Doodie,"
in the last picture the three took together]

[Leslie Howard with his wife, Ruth Martin, c. 1934]
Photoplay, July, 1934

[Ruth Martin (left), widow of Leslie Howard, is in Toronto
visiting her daughter, Mrs. R. B. Dale Harris (Leslie Ruth),
of Spadina Rd. with whom she is seen here along with
Leslie Howard's granddaughter, Caroline. Mrs. Howard was
last in Toronto in 1922 when she appeared with her
husband in Just Suppose. Picture: April 30, 1947]

[Life in Toronto is lovely to Mr. and Mrs Robert Dale-Harris
(Leslie Ruth), daughter of the famed actor, Leslie Howard,
who was reported killed in a plane crash during WWII. Also pictured,
Leslie Howard's granddaughter, Caroline, 1947]