Movies by Leslie Howard
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49th Parallel (1941)
Cast: Eric Portman, Laurence Olivier, Leslie Howard …
Directed by: Michael Powell
The great Laurence Olivier leads an impressive cast in this wartime thriller about a Nazi U-boat crew stranded in Canada during World War II. Led by the fanatical Lt. Hirth (Eric Portman),…
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Pimpernel Smith (1941)
Cast: Leslie Howard, Francis L. Sullivan, Mary Morris …
Directed by: Leslie Howard
Leslie Howard (Gone with the Wind) directs and stars in this 1941 action-adventure as Horatio Smith, a daring Allied agent who poses as a bumbling scholar and stages a fake archaeological dig…
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Intermezzo (1939)
Cast: Leslie Howard, Edna Best, Ann Todd …
Directed by: Gregory Ratoff
How apt that this film is named Intermezzo, a term that connotes a short musical piece played between two longer movements. Ingrid Bergman is the romantic interlude, Anita, a young pianist…
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Gone with the Wind (1939)
Cast: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard …
Directed by: Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood …
Director Victor Fleming's 1939 epic adaption of Margaret Mitchell's novel of the same name stars Vivien Leigh as self-absorbed, headstrong Scarlett O'Hara, a Southern Belle who…
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Pygmalion (1938)
Cast: Wendy Hiller, Leslie Howard, Wilifrid Lawson …
Directed by: Leslie Howard, Anthony Asquith
When snooty phonetics professor Henry Higgins (Leslie Howard) meets Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle (Wendy Hiller), he bets his friend that he can elevate her lowbrow speech and pass her…
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The Petrified Forest (1936)
Cast: Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart …
Directed by: Archie Mayo
Noted for Humphrey Bogart's breakthrough performance, this classic nail-biter teems with desperate characters in dangerous situations. When down-and-out Brit Alan (Leslie Howard) wanders…
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Romeo and Juliet (1936)
Cast: Reginald Denny, Andy Devine, Leslie Howard …
Directed by: George Cukor
Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer star in this classic production of Shakespeare's famous romantic tragedy. Although Romeo and Juliet fall deeply in love, the long-standing feud between…
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The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)
Cast: Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymod Massey …
Directed by: Harold Young
To look at foppish British dandy Sir Percy Blakeney (Leslie Howard), one would never assume that he's the Scarlet Pimpernel, an infamously debonair hero determined to rescue French…
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Of Human Bondage (1934)
Cast: Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Frances Dee …
Directed by: John Cromwell
One of a number of films based on W. Somerset Maugham's tragic novel, director John Cromwell's 1934 version is notable for catapulting Bette Davis to stardom as coarse Cockney…
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Pre-Code Hollywood: Of Human Bondage (1934)
Cast: Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Frances Dee …
Directed by: John Cromwell
After abandoning his artistic aspirations, club-footed medical school student Philip Carey (Leslie Howard) falls for promiscuous waitress Mildred Rogers (Bette Davis), beginning a lengthy and…
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The Animal Kingdom (1932)
Cast: Leslie Howard, William Gargan, Ann Harding …
Directed by: Edward H. Griffith
When free-spirited publisher Tom Collier (Leslie Howard) -- a devotee of art and literature -- decides to marry socialite Cee Henry (Myrna Loy), he leaves his longtime lover, the like-minded…
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A Free Soul (1931)
Cast: Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, Lionel Barrymore …
Directed by: Clarence Brown
Lionel Barrymore gives an Oscar-winning performance as tosspot San Francisco attorney Stephen Ashe, who successfully defends mobster Ace Wilfong (Clark Gable) against a murder rap. After the…
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The Divorcee / A Free Soul (1930)
Cast: Norma Shearer, Chester Morris, Conrad Nagel …
Directed by: Clarence Brown
Norma Shearer is at the top of her game in this double-dip of pre-code Hollywood hits. The Divorcee earned Shearer the 1930 Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal of a New York City party girl…
As a director:
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Pimpernel Smith (1941)
Cast: Leslie Howard, Francis L. Sullivan, Mary Morris …
Directed by: Leslie Howard
Leslie Howard (Gone with the Wind) directs and stars in this 1941 action-adventure as Horatio Smith, a daring Allied agent who poses as a bumbling scholar and stages a fake archaeological dig…
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Pygmalion (1938)
Cast: Wendy Hiller, Leslie Howard, Wilifrid Lawson …
Directed by: Leslie Howard, Anthony Asquith
When snooty phonetics professor Henry Higgins (Leslie Howard) meets Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle (Wendy Hiller), he bets his friend that he can elevate her lowbrow speech and pass her…