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Leslie Howard Steiner (3 April 18931 June 1943) was an English actor, director, producer and writer.Obituary, Variety, 9 June 1943. He wrote many stories and articles for The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair and was one of the biggest box-office draws and movie idols of the 1930s.
Active in both Britain and Hollywood, Howard played Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind (1939). He had roles in many other films, including Berkeley Square (1933), Of Human Bondage, The Scarlet Pimpernel (both 1934), The Petrified Forest (1936), Pygmalion (1938), Intermezzo (1939), "Pimpernel" Smith (1941), and The First of the Few (1942). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for Berkeley Square and Pygmalion. And he won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor for the latter film.
Howard's Second World War activities included acting and filmmaking. He helped to make anti-German propaganda and shore up support for the Allies; two years after his death, the British Film Yearbook described Howard's work as "one of the most valuable facets of British propaganda". He was rumoured to have been involved with British or Allied Intelligence, sparking conspiracy theories regarding his death in 1943 when the Luftwaffe shot down BOAC Flight 777 over the Atlantic (off the coast of Cedeira, A Coruña), on which he was a passenger.
He received his formal education at Alleyn's School, London. Like many others around the time of the First World War, the family anglicised its name, in this case to "Stainer", although Howard's name remained Steiner in official documents, such as his military records.
Howard was a 21-year-old bank clerk in Dulwich when the First World War began; in September 1914, he voluntarily enlisted (under the name Leslie Howard Steiner) as a Private with the British Army's Inns of Court Officer Training Corps in London.Leslie Howard Steiner's WW1 British Army service file, document order code WO 374/65089, The National Archives, London, published at 'The Great War Forum.org' website, 4 November 2005. In February 1915, he received a commission as a subaltern with the 3/1st Northamptonshire Yeomanry, with which he trained in England until 19 May 1916, when he resigned his commission and was medically discharged from the British Army with neurasthenia. The London Gazette (Supplement) dated 18 May 1916, p. 4961.Leslie Howard's World War I British Army service file, document order code WO 374/65089, The National Archives, London, published at 'The Great War Forum.org' website, 4 November 2005.
In March 1920, Howard gave public notice in The London Gazette that he had changed his surname, and would thereafter be known by the name of Howard instead of Steiner."Notice of Change of Name by Deed Poll". The London Gazette. Issue 31809, dated 5 March 1920. p. 2821.
After his success as Peter Standish in Berkeley Square (1929), Howard launched his Hollywood film career in the film version of Outward Bound, but did not like the experience and vowed never to return to Hollywood. However, he did return, many times—later repeating the Standish role in the 1933 film version of Berkeley Square.
The stage, however, continued to be an important part of his career. Howard frequently juggled acting, producing and directing duties in the Broadway productions in which he starred. Howard was also a dramatist, and starred in the Broadway production of his own play Murray Hill (1927). He played Matt Denant in John Galsworthy's 1927 Broadway production Escape in which he first made his mark as a dramatic actor. His stage triumphs continued with The Animal Kingdom (1932) and The Petrified Forest (1934). He later repeated both roles in the film versions.
Howard loved to play Shakespeare, but according to producer John Houseman he could be lazy about learning lines. He first sprang to fame playing in Romeo and Juliet (1936) in the role of the leading man. During the same period, he had the misfortune to open on Broadway in Hamlet (1936), just a few weeks after John Gielgud launched a rival production of the same play that was far more successfulCroall, Jonathan. Gielgud: A Theatrical Life 1904–2000. London: Continuum, 2001. . with both critics and audiences. Howard's production, his final stage role, lasted for only thirty-nine performances before closing.
Howard was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1981. "26 Elected to the Theater Hall of Fame." The New York Times. 3 March 1981.
In British and Hollywood productions, Howard often played stiff upper-lipped Englishmen. He appeared in the film version of Outward Bound (1930), though in a different role from the one he portrayed on Broadway. He had second billing under Norma Shearer in A Free Soul (1931), which also featured Lionel Barrymore and future Gone With the Wind rival Clark Gable eight years prior to their Civil War masterpiece. He starred in the film version of Berkeley Square (1933), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. He played the title role in The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934), which is often considered the definitive portrayal.
When Howard co-starred with Bette Davis in The Petrified Forest (1936) – having earlier co-starred with her in the film adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's book Of Human Bondage (1934) – he reportedly insisted that Humphrey Bogart play gangster Duke Mantee, repeating his role from the stage production. This re-launched Bogart's screen career, and the two men became lifelong friends; Bogart and Lauren Bacall later named their daughter "Leslie Howard Bogart" after him.Sklar 1992, pp. 60–62. In the same year Howard starred with Norma Shearer in a film version of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (1936).
Bette Davis was again Howard's co-star in the romantic comedy It's Love I'm After (1937) (also co-starring Olivia de Havilland). He played Professor Henry Higgins in the film version of George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion (1938), with Wendy Hiller as Eliza, which earned Howard another Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. In 1939, as war approached, he played opposite Ingrid Bergman in Intermezzo; that August, Howard was determined to return to the country of his birth. He was eager to help the war effort, but lost any support for a new film, instead being obliged to relinquish £20,000 of holdings in the US before he could leave the country.
Howard is perhaps best remembered for his role as Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind (1939), his last American film, but he was uncomfortable with Hollywood, and returned to Britain to help with the Second World War effort. He starred in a number of Second World War films, including 49th Parallel (1941), "Pimpernel" Smith (1941) and The First of the Few (1942, known in the U.S. as Spitfire), the latter two of which he also directed and co-produced. His friend and The First of the Few co-star David Niven said Howard was "...not what he seemed. He had the kind of distraught air that would make people want to mother him. Actually, he was about as naïve as General Motors. Busy little brain, always going."Finnie, Moira. "A Few Kind Words for Leslie Howard." Skeins of Thought, 2008. Retrieved: 4 August 2010.
In 1944, after his death, British exhibitors voted him the second-most popular local star at the box office. "Bitter Street fighting." Townsville Daily Bulletin, 6 January 1944, p. 2 via National Library of Australia, Retrieved: 11 July 2012. His daughter said he was a "remarkable man".
Leslie appeared with her father and David Niven in the film The First of the Few (1942), playing the role of nurse to Niven's character, and was a major contributor in the filmed biography of her father, Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn. Ronald became an actor and played the title role in the television series Sherlock Holmes (1954)."Ronald H. Stainer, mmn = Martin." GRO Register of Births: Lambeth, June 1918, 1d 598.
His younger brother, Arthur Howard, was also an actor, primarily in British comedies. His sister Irene Howard was a costume designer and a casting director for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.Ronald Howard, In Search of My Father: A Portrait of Leslie Howard, St. Martin's Press, New York 1981 His sister Doris Stainer founded the Hurst Lodge School in Sunningdale, Berkshire, in 1945 and remained its headmistress until the 1970s. The Times, issue 50336 dated Saturday, 29 December 1945, p. 1
Howard was widely known as a "ladies' man", and he once said that he "didn't chase women but ... couldn't always be bothered to run away".Gazeley, Helen. "Memories of Hollywood, in the Hills of Surrey" The Daily Telegraph (London). 29 April 2007. Retrieved 4 August 2010. Howard reportedly fathered a daughter – Carol Grace, born 1924 – by Rosheen Marcus; Carol twice married writer William Saroyan and then actor Walter Matthau. "Matthau family official website", matthau.com; accessed April 17, 2021.
He reportedly had affairs with Tallulah Bankhead when they appeared on stage in the U.K. in Her Cardboard Lover (1927), with Merle Oberon while filming The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) and with Conchita Montenegro, with whom he had appeared in the film Never the Twain Shall Meet (1931). IMDb "Never the Twain Shall Meet (1931)". IMDb. Retrieved 1 June 2018, There were also rumours of affairs with Norma Shearer and Myrna Loy during filming of The Animal Kingdom. "Leslie Howard found footage". The Guardian. 12 September 2010. Retrieved 3 May 2012.
Howard fell in love with Violette Cunnington in 1938 while working on Pygmalion. She was secretary to Gabriel Pascal who was producing the film; she became Howard's secretary and lover and they travelled to the U.S, and lived together while he was filming Gone with the Wind and Intermezzo (both 1939). His wife and daughter joined him in Hollywood before production ended on the two films, making his arrangement with Cunnington somewhat uncomfortable for everyone.Howard, L. R. 1959.Howard, L., ed. with R. Howard 1982.Howard, R. 1984. He moved from the U.S. to Britain with his wife and daughter in August 1939. Cunnington soon followed. She appeared in "Pimpernel" Smith (1941) and The First of the Few (1942) in minor roles under the stage name of Suzanne Clair. She died of pneumonia in her early thirties in 1942, just six months before Howard's death. Howard left her his Beverly Hills house in his will. "Milestones, 8 May 1944". Time magazine. 8 May 1944.Gates, Anita. "The Good Girl Gets the Last Word (interview with Olivia de Havilland)". The New York Times. 7 November 2004. Retrieved 22 July 2010.
The Howard family's home in Britain was Stowe Maries, a 16th-century, six-bedroom farmhouse on the edge of Westcott, Surrey. His will revealed an estate of £62,761, the equivalent of £ as of .Parker, John. "1939." Who's Who in the Theatre, 10th ed. London: Pitmans, 1947. An English Heritage blue plaque was placed at 45 Farquhar Road, Upper Norwood, London in 2013.
The BOAC DC-3 Ibis had been operating on a scheduled Lisbon–Whitchurch route throughout 1942–1943 that did not pass over what would commonly be referred to as a War. However, by 1942 the Germans considered the region an "extremely sensitive war zone".Rosevink and Hintze 1991, p. 14. On two occasions, 15 November 1942, and 19 April 1943, the camouflaged airliner had been attacked by Messerschmitt Bf 110 fighters (a single aircraft and six Bf 110s, respectively) while en route; each time, the pilots escaped by evasive tactics.. Retrieved: 23 July 2010.
On 1 June 1943, "G-AGBB" again came under attack by a swarm of eight maritime fighters. The DC-3's last radio message indicated it was being fired upon at .
According to German documents, the DC-3 was shot down at , some from Bordeaux, France, and northwest of La Coruña, Spain. Luftwaffe records indicate that the Ju 88 maritime fighters were operating beyond their normal patrol area to intercept and shoot down the aircraft. Oberleutnant Herbert Hintze, Staffelkapitän of / Kampfgeschwader 40, and based in Bordeaux, stated that his Staffel shot down the DC-3 because it was recognized as an enemy aircraft.
Hintze further stated that his pilots were angry that the Luftwaffe leaders had not informed them of a scheduled flight between Lisbon and the UK, and that had they known, they could easily have escorted the DC-3 to Bordeaux and captured it and all aboard. The German pilots photographed the wreckage floating in the Bay of Biscay, and after the war, copies of these captured photographs were sent to Howard's family.
The following day, a search of the waters on the route was undertaken by "N/461", a Short Sunderland flying boat from No. 461 Squadron RAAF. Near the same coordinates where the DC-3 was shot down, the Sunderland was attacked by eight Ju 88s and, after a furious battle, it managed to shoot down three of the attackers, with an additional three "possibles", before crash-landing at Praa Sands near Penzance. In the aftermath of these two actions, all BOAC flights from Lisbon were re-routed and operated only under the cover of darkness.
The news of Howard's death was published in the same issue of The Times that reported the "death" of Major William Martin, the "Man who never was" created for the ruse involved in Operation Mincemeat.
Two books focusing on the final flight, and , asserted that the target was Howard instead: That Germans deliberately shot down Howard's DC-3 to demoralise Britain. Howard had been travelling through Spain and Portugal lecturing on film, but also meeting with local propagandists and shoring up support for the Allies. The British Film Yearbook for 1945 described Leslie Howard's work as "one of the most valuable facets of British propaganda".Noble 1945, p. 74.
The Germans could have suspected even more surreptitious activities, since Portugal, like Switzerland, was a crossroads for internationals and spies from both sides. British historian James Oglethorpe investigated Howard's connection to the secret services. Ronald Howard's book explores the written German orders to the Ju 88 squadron in great detail, as well as British communiqués that purportedly verify intelligence reports indicating a deliberate attack on Howard. These accounts indicate that the Germans were aware of Churchill's real whereabouts at the time and were not so naïve as to believe he would be travelling alone on board an unescorted, unarmed civilian aircraft, which Churchill also acknowledged as improbable. (Coincidentally, Ron Howard's financial advisor, who happened to take the same flight, looked like Churchill; Howard bore a resemblance to Churchill's bodyguard.)
Ronald Howard was convinced the order to shoot down Howard's airliner came directly from Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda in Nazi Germany, who had been ridiculed in one of Leslie Howard's films, and believed Howard to be the most dangerous British propagandist.
Most of the 13 passengers were either British businessmen with commercial connections to Portugal, or lower-ranking British government civil servants. There were also two or three children of British military personnel. Two passengers were bumped off the flight, George and William Cecil, the teenage sons of Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt, who had been recalled to London from their Swiss boarding school, thus saving their lives.Covington 2006, pp. 102–103.
A 2008 book by Spanish writer José Rey XimenaRey Ximena 2008 argues that Howard was on a top-secret mission for Churchill to dissuade Spanish dictator Francisco Franco from joining the Axis powers. Via an old girlfriend, Conchita Montenegro, Howard had contacts with Ricardo Giménez Arnau, a young diplomat in the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Further merely circumstantial background evidence is revealed in Jimmy Burns's 2009 biography of his father, spymaster Tom Burns. In W. Stevenson's biography of Sir William Samuel Stephenson (no relation), who was the senior representative of British Intelligence for the western hemisphere during the Second World War, — biography of Sir William Samuel Stephenson (no relation) Stephenson postulated that the Germans knew about Howard's mission and ordered the aircraft shot down. Stephenson further argued that Churchill knew in advance of the German intention to shoot down the aircraft but allowed it to proceed to protect the fact that the British had broken the German Enigma code. Former CIA agent J.B. Smith recalled that, in 1957, he was briefed by the National Security Agency on the need for secrecy and that Leslie Howard's death had been brought up. The NSA stated that Howard knew German fighters would attack the aircraft but went on the plane anyway to protect the British code-breakers' secret.Smith 1976, p. 389.
A secretly taped account by one of the pilots involved appears in . In a recently declassified transcript of a surreptitiously recorded conversation by two German Luftwaffe prisoners of war talking about the shooting down of Howard's flight, one seems to express pride in his accomplishment, but states clearly he knew nothing of the passengers' identities or importance until hearing an English broadcast later that evening. Asked why he shot down a civil aircraft, he states it was one of four such planes he shot down: "Whatever crossed our path was shot down."
In the biography by , she examines then recently available evidence and concludes that Howard was not a specific target, corroborating the statements by German sources that the shootdown was "an error in judgement".
There is a monument in San Andrés de Teixido, Spain, dedicated to the victims of the crash. Howard's aircraft was shot down over the sea north of this village.
Howard's son and daughter each published memoirs of their father: In Search of My Father: A Portrait of Leslie Howard (1984) by Ronald Howard, and A Quite Remarkable Father: A Biography of Leslie Howard (1959) by Leslie Ruth Howard.
Estel Eforgan's Leslie Howard: The Lost Actor is a full-length book biography published in 2010.
From 2012 to early 2014 the film remained in limbo due to these issues. However, in early 2014, independent producer Monty Montgomery and Hamilton entered a co-production agreement to complete and release the documentary. This involved a complete re-edit of the documentary, from June 2014 to February 2015, with added material including archival interviews (Michael Powell, John Houseman, Ronald Howard and Irene Howard - all originally filmed in 1980 for the BBC's British Greats series), much historical footage and an additional interview. In addition a score was commissioned from composer Maria Antal and considerable post-production sweetening was undertaken on the original material.
This new version, of Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn was screened as a "work in progress" at the San Francisco Mostly British Film Festival on 14 February 2015, with Hamilton, Tracy Jenkins and Derek Partridge in attendance. The film won the award for Best Documentary Film.
Subsequent screenings (with minor changes to the commentary) took place at the Chichester International Film Festival on 18 August 2015 at the Regent Street Cinema, London in December 2015 and at the Margaret Mitchell Museum in Atlanta in May 2016 as part of the Britweek Atlanta launch.
Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn had its world premiere broadcast on Talking Pictures TV on 27 December 2017, followed by the US TV premiere on Turner Classic Movies on 4 June 2018, which opened a month-long tribute to Howard's films. It airs regularly on Talking Pictures TV and occasionally on Turner Classic Movies.
In May, 1935, Leslie Howard and his daughter, Leslie Ruth Howard, aged 10, appeared on The Rudy Vallee Show/Fleischmann's Yeast Hour in "The Enchanted Forest" scene from James M. Barrie's Dear Brutus. The show was so popular with audiences that for the first time in the show's history an encore was performed six weeks later on 27 June 1935. That show survives and can be heard on the Old Time Radio Library's website. "Dear Brutus"
At the end of 1936 Howard began appearing as a guest on Eddie Cantor's Texaco Town. It took six months and three appearances before he and Cantor finally delivered the punchline in the skit "Three Pairs of Rubbers". Howard's appearances were not limited to guest spots. Beginning in October 1935 and into the spring of 1936 Howard had his own show on CBS. It was a serial titled The Amateur Gentleman. "Radio Guide 36-03-07" Radio Guide, Week Ending 7 March 1936, pg. 22 The show eventually became Leslie Howard's Matinee "Radio Guide 36-02-01" Radio Guide, Sunday, 26 January 1936, pg. 28 with each week bringing a new adapted play popular at the time to radio listeners. Howard also appeared in Columbia Presents Shakespeare as Benedick in the play Much Ado About Nothing with Rosalind Russell in the summer of 1937. "Round Up of Actors" The New York Times, Sunday, 27 June 1937, pg. 146 Howard produced two shows for Lux Radio Theatre: Lady for A Day, starring May Robson and Guy Kibbee, and The Life of Émile Zola, starring Paul Muni and Josephine Hutchinson.
His last known radio appearance in the United States before returning to Britain to help with the war effort was the Radio Tribute to the King and Queen in which dozens of British stars performed skits while King King George VI and Queen Elizabeth listened with President Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt from Hyde Park. "The British Royal Visit" FDR Presidential Library and Museum "Scenes from the Royal visit to Hyde Park" The Washington Post Howard's appearances on the BBC's Britain Speaks were broadcast to the United States from 16 July 1940, after the onset of the Second World War, urging America to enter the war in support of Britain. By January 1941 Howard had completed 27 broadcasts of Britain Speaks.Howard, Leslie, ed. with Ronald Howard. Trivial Fond Records. London: William Kimber & Co Ltd, 1982. . Howard also appeared on a panel programme for the BBC called The Brains Trust.
Most of Howard's radio broadcasts have been lost, but a few have survived.
Theories regarding the air attack
A long-standing but ultimately unsupported hypothesis suggested that the Germans believed that the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, was on board the flight. Churchill's history of World War II suggested that the Germans targeted the commercial flight because the British Prime Minister's "presence in North Africa for had been fully reported", and German agents at the Lisbon airfield mistook a "thickset man smoking a cigar" boarding the plane for Churchill returning to England. This thickset man was Howard's agent, Alfred Chenhalls. The death of the fourteen civilians including Leslie Howard "was a painful shock to me", Churchill wrote; "the brutality of the Germans was only matched by the stupidity of their agents".
The Mystery of Flight 777 (documentary)
The Mystery of Flight 777, by film-maker Thomas Hamilton, explores the circumstances, theories and myths which have grown around the shooting down of Howard's plane. The film also aims to examine in detail some of the other passengers on board. Originally intended as a short companion piece to the Leslie Howard film, this project expanded in scope and as of January 2021 is still in production.
Biographies
Howard's premature death preempted any autobiography. A compilation of his writings, Trivial Fond Records, edited and with occasional comments by his son Ronald, was published in 1982. This book includes insights on his family life, first impressions of America and Americans when he first moved to the United States to act on Broadway, and his views on democracy in the years prior to and during the Second World War.
Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn
Leslie Howard: A Quite Remarkable Life, as it was initially known, is a film documentary biography produced by Thomas Hamilton of Repo Films. It was shown privately at the NFB Mediatheque, Toronto, Canada in September 2009 for contributors and supporters of the film. Subsequently, re-edited and retitled Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn, the documentary was officially launched on 2 September 2011 in an event held at Howard's former home "Stowe Maries" in Dorking, and reported on BBC South News the same day., 7 September 2011. Lengthy rights negotiations with Warners then delayed further screenings until May 2012.
Complete filmography
1914 UK Yes Short 1917 UK Yes Rollo 1919 UK Yes UK Twice Two Yes Short UK Yes Short UK Bookworms Yes Yes Richard Short UK Five Pounds Reward Yes Yes Tony Marchmont Short UK Two Many Cooks Yes Short UK Yes Short 1930 US Outward Bound Yes US Never the Twain Shall Meet Yes US Yes US Five and Ten Yes US Devotion Yes UK Service for Ladies Yes US Smilin' Through Yes US Yes US Secrets Yes US Captured! Yes US Berkeley Square Yes US Of Human Bondage Yes UK Yes US British Agent Yes UK Yes US Yes US Romeo and Juliet Yes Romeo Montague US It's Love I'm After Yes US Stand-In Yes 1938 UK Pygmalion Yes Yes US Intermezzo Yes Yes US Gone with the Wind Yes 1940 UK Common Heritage Narrator Short UK Yes Yes Yes UK Yes UK The First of the Few Yes Yes Yes UK From the Four Corners Yes Yes Short UK In Which We Serve Yes Narrator Uncredited UK Yes Yes Yes Narrator (final film role) UK Yes Final production
Theatre credits
20 December 1913 Deception Wilson Smith Author
Stanley Hall, Upper Norwood, London
(Amateur Production)20 December 1913 The Perplexed Husband Stanley Hall, Upper Norwood, London
(Amateur Production)1916
October/November TourPeg o' My Heart Jerry England Tour 1916–1917
Winter–Spring TourCharley's Aunt Jack Chesney England Tour 10 June 1917 The Tidings Brought to Mary the Apprentice Novello Theatre, London 1917
Summer–Fall TourUnder Cover Monty Vaughan England Tour 14 February – 30 March 1918 The Freaks Ronald Herrick New Theatre, London 19 March 1918 Romanticismo Marquis Giacomino d'Arfo Comedy Theatre, London 14 April 1918 Romanticismo Marquis Giacomino d'Arfo King's Hall, London 1 April 1918 The Morals of Vanda Leonard Mortimer Grand Theatre, Croydon, London 6 May 1918 Box B Captain Robert Stroud London Coliseum, London 3 June 1918 Sinners Robert Ransom Prince of Wales Theatre, Birmingham, England 20 July 1918 – Spring 1919 The Title John Culver Royalty Theatre, London 3 April 1919 Our Mr. Hepplewhite Lord Bagley Criterion Theatre, London 24 November 1919 Just A Wife Or Two Victor Hamilton West Pier, Brighton, England 5 January 1920 Mr. Pim Passes By Brian Strange New Theatre, London and The Garrick Theatre, London 10 February 1920 The Young Person in Pink Lord Stevenage Prince of Wales Theatre, London 16 February 1920 Kitty Breaks Loose Jack Wilson/Sir John Wilde Duke of York's Theatre, London 9 June 1920 East Is West Billy Benson Lyric Theatre, London July 1920 Rosalind of the Farmyard Captain L'Estrange Shaftesbury Theatre, London 1 November 1920 – January 1921 Just Suppose Honourable Sir Calverton Shipley Henry Miller's Theatre, New York 10 December 1920 P's and Q's Charley Stark Morosco Theatre, New York 10 October – October 1921 The Wren Hugh Roddy Gaiety Theatre, New York 22 December 1921 – February 1922 Danger Percy Sturgess 39th Street Theatre, New York 14 March – June 1922 The Truth About Blayds Oliver Blayds Booth Theatre, New York 24 August – September 1922 A Serpent's Tooth Jerry Middleton Little Theatre, New York 14 November – December 1922 The Romantic Age Gervase Mallory Comedy Theatre, New York 25 December 1922 – January 1923 The Lady Cristilinda Martini Broadhurst Theatre, New York 20 February – April 1923 Anything Might Happen Hal Turner Comedy Theatre, New York 21 May – June 1923 Aren't We All? The Honourable William Tatham Gaiety Theatre, New York 7 January – May 1924 Outward Bound Henry Ritz Theatre, New York 25 August – December 1924 The Werewolf Paolo Moreira 49th Street Theatre, New York 13 January – February 1925 Shall We Join the Ladies? Mr. Preen Empire Theatre, New York 13 January – February 1925 Isabel Peter Graham Empire Theatre, New York 15 September 1925 – February 1926 The Green Hat Napier Harpenden Broadhurst Theatre, New York 27 July 1926 The Way You Look At It Bobby Rendon Sondheim Theatre, London 20 December 1926 Mayfair Broad Street Theatre,
Newark (Out-of-Town Tryout)21 March – August 1927 Her Cardboard Lover Andre Sallicel Empire Theatre, New York 29 September – October 1927 Murray Hill Wrigley Author
Bijou Theatre, New York26 October 1927 – March 1928 Escape Matt Denant Booth Theatre, New York June 1928 Tell Me the Truth (A Bit of Tomfoolery) — Author
Ambassadors Theatre, London21 August 1928 Her Cardboard Lover Andre Sallicel Lyric Theatre, London 6 March 1929 Berkeley Square Peter Standish Lyric Theatre, London 26 August 1929 - 31 August 1929 Candle Light Josef Empire Theatre, Southampton, England 30 September 1929 – January 1930 Candle Light Josef Empire Theatre, New York 4 November 1929 – May 1930 Berkeley Square Peter Standish Co-producer, Co-director
Lyceum Theatre, New York8 February – February 1930 Out of a Blue Sky — Author, Director
Booth Theatre, New York12 January – June 1932 The Animal Kingdom Tom Collier Co-producer
Broadhurst Theatre, New York31 March – April 1932 We Are No Longer Children — Co-director
Booth Theatre, New York19–28 October 1933 University of Birmingham: Cadbury Research Library Special Collections – This Side Idolatry by Talbot Jennings This Side Idolatry William Shakespeare Producer
Lyric Theatre, LondonJuly 1934 Elizabeth Sleeps Out — Author
Whitehall Theatre, London7 January – June 1935 The Petrified Forest Alan Squier Co-producer
Broadhurst Theatre, New York20 April – May 1936 Elizabeth Sleeps Out — Author
Comedy Theatre, New York10 November – December 1936 Hamlet Hamlet Director, producer
Imperial Theatre, New York27 September 1937 Alias Mrs. Jones — Author, Director
Little Theatre, Bristol, EnglandMay 1938 Here's to Our Enterprise Lyceum Theatre, London 25 September 1942 Cathedral Steps Horatio NelsonLast public performance St. Paul's Cathedral, London
Radio career
Howard was not only an accomplished actor on stage and screen, he appeared many times on radio as well. Howard began his career on radio in the early 1930s when he performed dramatic readings for The Yardley Program. Not much is known about the programme because the recordings have been lost, but references to the show can be found in fan magazines of the time"Leslie Howard, the favourite of stage and screen, whose brilliant dramatic readings are a delightful feature of the popular Yardley programme." "The Radio Hall of Fame," Silver Screen, July, 1932. and the show is listed in The New York Times radio programme guide. "Radio Program Guide" The New York Times, 27 March 1932, pg. 162 Howard was also a guest performer on such shows as The Rudy Vallee Show/Fleischmann's Yeast Hour, Lux Radio Theatre, The Silver Theatre, The Magic Key of RCA, Your Hit Parade and Kraft Music Hall with Bing Crosby.
Old Time Radio, Rudy Vallee – Fleischmann's Yeast Hour, ''Dear Brutus'' Episode 197
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