Intimate and compelling documentary on the life and career of Leslie Howard (1893-1943)Intimate and compelling documentary on the life and career of Leslie Howard (1893-1943)Intimate and compelling documentary on the life and career of Leslie Howard (1893-1943)
Nick Cull
- Self - Interviewee
- (as Professor Nicholas Cull)
Doug Wheeler
- Self - Interviewee
- (as Professor Douglas Wheeler)
Olivia de Havilland
- Self
- (archive footage)
Sidney Franklin
- Self
- (archive sound)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaNarrator, host, and producer Derek Partridge had, at the age of 7, given up his seat to actor Leslie Howard for the ill-fated Flight 777.
- Quotes
Self - Interviewee: Broadway is full of Hollywood Producers trying to find this next generation of stars who will be able to replace the ones who can't speak for themselves in silent cinema - the ones whose voices don't match their faces. So, from the moment that Al Jolson sings, then, that's a very good time to be performing the lead in a play on Broadway; because, the audience is full of talent scouts waiting to put you on the 20th Century ship you West.
- Crazy creditsMonty Montgomery's services courtesy of Sparrows and Hawks
- ConnectionsFeatures Outward Bound (1930)
Featured review
Leslie Howard 1893-1943
Odd indeed that a man regarded as a quintessential Englishman on stage and
screen was an adopted one, the son of a Hungarian Jewish father and a partly German Jew. But that was Leslie Howard a man who crossed the Atlantic
quite regularly to star on the British and American stage and screen.
A kid whose parents wanted to send him into some humdrum business career, you could not contain his creativity which only at a last resort channeled itself into acting.
I found it fascinating how the two children, Ronald and Leslie seemed to take with equanimity their father's womanizing. Merle Oberon and secretary Violette Cunningham were only the two most prominent. Something that Ruth Howard just put up with as did Robert Mitchum's wife.
Interesting also that the two films he didn't think much of were the two that he co-starred with Clark Gable. In A Free Soul, Gable was a newcomer and Howard was a distinct 4th behind Lionel Barrymore's Best Actor performance and Gable's roughhewn gangster and Norma Shearer's woman with an itch. And he could never convince David O. Selznick he wasn't quite right for Ashley Wilkes. It would have been interesting had he lived another two decades with a few revivals of Gone With The Wind and seen the response to it even today what he might have thought.
Enough great roles to remember him in any event. The Scarlet Pimpernel, Of Human Bondage, Pygmalion. We are fortunate also that preserved on film are Broadway starring roles in The Petrified Forest and The Animal Kingdom and Berkeley Square.
Of course the speculation grows even now about the doomed airline flight from Lisbon to London where he was shot down over the Bay of Biscay by the Germans. He was most active in the war effort. He served in the trenches during the first World War. He died in the second as surely as any soldier, sailor, or airman.
The film is a great tribute to a great star.
A kid whose parents wanted to send him into some humdrum business career, you could not contain his creativity which only at a last resort channeled itself into acting.
I found it fascinating how the two children, Ronald and Leslie seemed to take with equanimity their father's womanizing. Merle Oberon and secretary Violette Cunningham were only the two most prominent. Something that Ruth Howard just put up with as did Robert Mitchum's wife.
Interesting also that the two films he didn't think much of were the two that he co-starred with Clark Gable. In A Free Soul, Gable was a newcomer and Howard was a distinct 4th behind Lionel Barrymore's Best Actor performance and Gable's roughhewn gangster and Norma Shearer's woman with an itch. And he could never convince David O. Selznick he wasn't quite right for Ashley Wilkes. It would have been interesting had he lived another two decades with a few revivals of Gone With The Wind and seen the response to it even today what he might have thought.
Enough great roles to remember him in any event. The Scarlet Pimpernel, Of Human Bondage, Pygmalion. We are fortunate also that preserved on film are Broadway starring roles in The Petrified Forest and The Animal Kingdom and Berkeley Square.
Of course the speculation grows even now about the doomed airline flight from Lisbon to London where he was shot down over the Bay of Biscay by the Germans. He was most active in the war effort. He served in the trenches during the first World War. He died in the second as surely as any soldier, sailor, or airman.
The film is a great tribute to a great star.
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- Jun 5, 2018
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- Leslie Howard: A Quite Remarkable Life
- Filming locations
- Dorking, Surrey, England, UK(Stowe Maries, Leslie Howard's home)
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- £220,000 (estimated)
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By what name was Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn (2016) officially released in Canada in English?
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