Tuesday, June 1, 2021

REMEMBERING LESLIE HOWARD

Who died this date in 1943...English stage and film actor, director, and producer Leslie Howard (1893-1943) is best-known for his role as Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind (1939). Other popular films were The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934), The Petrified Forest (1936), Pygmalion (1938), and Intermezzo (1939). 
 
During the Second World War he was active in anti-Nazi propaganda. In 1943 his airliner was shot down, and this sparked modern conspiracy theories regarding his death.

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