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Chronological Archive

(Alphabetical Archive)

1918

• The Title – The Play Pictorial no. 198, 1918

1921

• The Spoken Word: “The Wren” by Windsor P. Daggett – Billboard, October 29, 1921

1922

• [A.A. Milne described by Leslie Howard] – The New York Times, March 26, 1922

1924

• Anyhow They Mean Well by Leslie Howard – The New York Times, May 11, 1924

1927

• Leslie Howard Turns Satirist by George Halasz – Brooklyn Daily Eagle, March 27, 1927
• And Now the Radio Actor by Leslie Howard – Vanity Fair, April 1927
• The Poor Nut and the Modest Actor by Leslie Howard – Theatre Magazine, September 1927
• An Actor Turns Playwright – The New York Times, October 2, 1927

1928

• A Comedian Who Would Play “Hamlet” by Ray Henderson – Theatre Magazine, May 1928

1929

• Master of Polite Sophistication by George Halasz – Brooklyn Eagle Magazine, November 3, 1929

1930

• Mr. Howard Has a New One – Brooklyn Daily Eagle, February 2, 1930
• Presenting the Impossible by Leslie Howard – Theatre Magazine, June 1930
• Regards Playing Part as Reflex of Reality – The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 16, 1930
• The Englishman of America by Sydney Skolksy – Times Square Tintypes, New York, 1930

1931

• Acting ‘Routine Job’ to Newest of Film’s Favorites by Jerry Hoffman – Syracuse American,  June 14, 1931
• Leslie Howard by Donald Henderson Clarke  – Milwaukee Journal, June 28, 1931
• Hollywood Studios Combine On Contracts Best Artists by Molly Merrick – Ottawa Citizen, July 18, 1931
• A Nervous Wreck! by Michael Woodward – Photoplay, October 1931
• Acting Is Woman’s Work by Faith Service – Motion Picture, October 1931
• The Luck of Leslie Howard by Frank Shaw – Picturegoer, December 5, 1931

1932

• He Remains an Englishman – New York Evening Post, January 9, 1932
• Why Leslie Howard Turned Down Big Movie Money by Malcolm H. Oettinger – Screenland, March 1932
• An Actor Should Have Roots – Brooklyn Daily Eagle, April 10, 1932
• An Actor Speaks Up On a Pair of Old Traditions by Leslie Howard – The New York Times, April 17, 1932
• Leslie Howard Tells What He Thinks of Acting, Writing and the Movies by Janet White – Brooklyn Daily Eagle, April 24, 1932

• Leslie Howard Gives Views On Actors and Other Things – Brooklyn Daily Eagle, June 5, 1932

• Not a Sock in a Hundred Reels by Katherine Albert – Photoplay, August 1932
• Leslie Howard Fans Win! by Faith Baldwin – Modern Screen, September 1932
• Learn to Listen Well by Leslie Howard – American Cinematographer, December 1932
• When Fame Begins to Fade by Frederick Russell – Picturegoer, December 10, 1932

1933

• Why Is Leslie Howard the Man of the Moment? by Gladys Hall – Movie Classic, March 1933
• My Charming Tenant, Mr. Leslie Howard by Elsie Janis – The New Movie Magazine, April 1933
• A Weekly Letter from Hollywood – Leslie Howard by Kathlyn Hayden – Picture Show, April 1st, 1933
• A Private View of Leslie Howard by Irene Howard – Film Weekly, May 5, 1933
• “Mothering” Leslie Howard by Grace Mack – Screen Book, June 1933
• Leslie Howard of Berkeley Square, Philosopher – Picturegoer, June 24, 1933
• Riding High by Margaret Reid – Picture Play, July 1933
• Photography by Mr. Howard – The New Movie Magazine, July 1933
• Explaining Leslie Howard by Jack Grant – Motion Picture, July 1933
• Hollywood Thinks He’s “Ga-Ga” – Film Pictorial, July 1st, 1933
• Leslie Howard Speaks His Mind by Doris Mackie – Film Weekly, July 21, 1933
• Leslie Howard non vuole “girare” con la Garbo by E. Morandi – Cinema Illustrazione, August 30, 1933
• ‘I’m Afraid to Play With Garbo’ Says Leslie Howard by Ben Maddox – Screenland, September 1933
• The Secrets of Berkeley Square by Wilson D’Arne – Picturegoer, September 2, 1933
• Leslie Howard Tells You About “the Unhappiest Woman in Hollywood” by Isabel Myddleton. – Film Pictorial, September 30, 1933
• If I Were Single in Hollywood by Dorothy Manners – Motion Picture, October 1933
• Love in the Life of Leslie Howard by Adele Whitely Fletcher – Modern Screen, October 1933

1934

• Leslie Howard’s Lost Love by Iris Gray – Movie Mirror, 1934
• Leslie Howard’s Lucky Coin by Virginia Maxwell – Photoplay, March 1934
• Leslie Howard Didn’t Want to Come Back by Martha Kerr – Modern Screen, March 1934
• Is Movie Love Too Real? Leslie Howard Answers! by Ben Maddox – Screenland, April 1934
• Doug Jr. As I Know Him by Leslie Howard – Movie Mirror, April 1934
• Bringing Literature to the Screen — Brooklyn Daily Eagle, May 27, 1934
• A Good Pal Is Worth Three Dollars by Carl Bosworth – Photoplay, July 1934
• Why the Yen for British Men? by Richard English – Movie Classic, July 1934
• Problems Of My Four New Parts by Leslie Howard in an interview with Hubert Cole – Film Weekly, July 20, 1934
• I Know What It’s Like to Be in Human Bondage – Leslie Howard by Gladys Hall – Motion Picture, August 1934
• Portrait of Leslie Howard by Martin Dickstein – Brooklyn Daily Eagle, August 23, 1934
• Leslie Howard Talks About Sex Films – Picturegoer, September 15, 1934
• Leslie Howard Is Elusive by Maud M. Miller – Film Pictorial, September 15, 1934
• Hollywood Over-rates Romance by Caroline Somers Hoyt – Modern Screen, October 1934
• The “Pimpernel” Lives Again by Baroness Orczy in an interview with J. Danvers Williams – Film Weekly, October 10, 1934
• Pals by Whitney Williams – The New Movie Magazine, October 1934
• Lovers Three – What Have They Got? [Gable, Novarro, Howard] by Douglas Gilbert – The New Movie Magazine, December 1934
• Leslie Howard Just Folks At Christmas by Mildred F. Brown – Lewiston Evening Journal, December 29, 1934

1935

• The Petrified Novelist – The Literary Digest, January 1935
• Leslie Howard’s Triumph by Patricia Hill – Film Pictorial, January 12, 1935
• Realists, all by Leslie Howard – Movie Makers, February 1935

• To Whom It May Concern: A Message From Korda – The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, February 10, 1935

• Listing a Few of Leslie Howard’s Peculiarities – The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, February 10, 1935
• Lancelot in Modern Dress by Laura Benham – Screenland, March 1935
• Tea-Timing With the Horsy Mr. Howard by Dena Reed – Silver Screen, March 1935
• They Talk About Their First Love by Katherine Albert – Modern Screen, March 1935
• Can Love Last in Hollywood? by Maude Lathem – The New Movie Magazine, March 1935
• Honest Admission by Dan Wheeler – Picture Play, April 1935
• Come to England’s Hollywood by Henry Albert Phillips – Screenland, April 1935
• Leslie Howard Faces 300 Scholastic Interviewers by Wilella Waldorf – The New York Post, April 6, 1935

• All Is Told to 300 by Leslie Howard – The New York Times, April 6, 1935

• His First Picture by Patricia Reilly – Motion Picture, May 1935
• A Very Quiet Actor by Kyle Crichton – Collier’s, May 4, 1935
• Max Reinhardt escoge las 12 mejores “estrellas” de la pantalla by José Fernandez J.R. – Cinegramas, May 12, 1935
• Long, Lean and Lovable – Miss Modern, June 1935
• “I Love My Husband, But–“ [Norma Shearer about Leslie Howard] by Faith Service – Modern Screen, June 1935
• Problems of Actor’s Private Life by B.F. Wilson – Screenland, July 1935
• Whither the Stars? Leslie Howard by Noel Jaquin – Film Pictorial Summer Extra 1935
• The Life and Loves of Leslie Howard by Clara Berenger – Liberty, August 3, 1935
• [Dear Brutus at the Rudy Vallee’s program] in My Time Is Your Time by Jack Banner – Radio Guide, August 17, 1935
• Leslie Howard Plans a Double Life – Film Weekly, September 27, 1935
• Brushing Aside Traditions by Orrin E. Dunlap Jr. – The New York Times, October 13, 1935
• Women of the Screen (1935) by Leslie Howard – Film Weekly, October 25, 1935
• Leslie Howard’s Skill as an Actor by John Mason Brown – New York Post, October 26, 1935
• Master of Understatement – The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, November 19, 1935
• Leslie Howard as “Amateur Gentleman” – The Milwaukee Journal, November 27, 1935
• The Theatre Is the Only True Actor’s Medium by Leslie Howard. – The Screen Guild Magazine, December 1935
• The Life Story of Leslie Howard by John K. Newnham – Gift Supplement to Film Pictorial, 1935

1936

• The Unconventional Mister Howard by Mildred Mastin – Radio Stars, January 1936
• Leslie Howard by Alberto Rondon – Cinelandia, January 1936
• Actor Anxious To Become Director – Kentucky New Era, January 28, 1936
• A Woman’s Angle on Leslie Howard by Helen Hover – Radio Guide, January 11, 1936
• What Leslie Howard Really Thinks of Hollywood by Ben Maddox – Screenland, February 1936
• Acting Palls on Leslie–Oh, Definitely! By Paul Harrison – The Meriden Daily Journal, February 5, 1936
• Leslie Howard Breaks the Rules by William Anthony – Modern Screen, March 1936
• Leslie Howard – Perennial Charmer by Ruth Rankin – Modern Screen, April 1936
• Romeo Talks!  by Leslie Howard– Film Weekly, May 30, 1936
• Why Leslie Howard is Leaving the Screen by George Madden – Movie Mirror, May 1936
• Don’t Get Leslie Howard Wrong! by Harry Lang – Motion Picture, May 1936
• Romeo at Home by C.A.L. – The Living Age, August 1936
• Is Dying for Love a Thing of the Past? by Gladys Hall – Picturegoer, August 29, 1936
• Howard and Walpole Get Together by Herbert Thompson – Film Weekly, September 12, 1936
• Camera Angles on Film Folk: Leslie Howard Fears the Film Fame Which Makes Hollywood Heroes Idols for an Hour, and He Says Movie Making Isn’t Fun for the Actor by Mildred Martin – The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 29, 1936
• Are Great Lovers Too Old at 40? gossip by The Nomad – Film Pictorial, November 7, 1936
• Leslie Howard by Percy Burton – Hamlet programme, November 1936

1937

• Leslie Howard Discusses Love With ‘News’ Reporter by May Mann – The Deseret News, January 30, 1937
• Leslie Howard on Walter Winchell’s Column – Syracuse Journal, June 5, 1937
• Thoughts By Leslie Howard On Love And The Cinema by Julia Macdonalds – The Advertiser, Adelaide, SA, June 5, 1937
• Thespis — The Jade by Leslie Howard – Stage, July 1937
• Charm Comes First by Charles Darnton – Screenplay, August 1937
• American Women Are More Exciting Says Leslie Howard by Charles Darnton – Picturegoer, August 14, 1937
• Leslie Howard Will Be “Lawrence of Arabia” gossip by The Nomad – Film Pictorial, August 21, 1937
• How Do They Get That Way? An Open Letter to Leslie Howard – Picturegoer, August 28, 1937
• Is Leslie Howard Giving Us the Round-Around? by Dan Camp – Motion Picture, September 1937
• Profiles For Today – Leslie Howard Does Not Regret Hamlet by Talbot Lake – Huntingdon Daily News, September 1, 1937
• Leslie Howard Lays His Plans by Max Breen – Picturegoer, September 18,1937
• Leslie Howard’s One-Man Show by Ruth Tildesley – Screenland, November 1937
• How I Shall Play Lawrence by Leslie Howard in an interview with J. Danvers Williams – Film Weekly, November 20, 1937

1938

• Leslie Snaps Out Of It – Film Weekly, January 8, 1938
• Leslie Howard to Make a Bernard Shaw Classic – Film Pictorial, January 8, 1938
• A Rather Spiritual Young Man Returns to Comedy by Thomas Baird – World Film News, February 1938
• Leslie Howard, il poeta by P. – Film (Italy), March 5, 1938 (in Italian)
• Howard Hits Out at the Film Business, in an interview with J. Danvers Williams – Film Weekly, April 9, 1938
• Leslie Howard–By His Mother by Peter Langdale – Film Pictorial, April 30, 1938
• What Are They Doing to Shaw? by J. Danvers Williams – Film Weekly, May 14, 1938
• How I Shall Play Nelson by Leslie Howard, interview with J. Danvers Williams – Film Weekly, May 28, 1938
• Leslie Howard on Acting for the Screen – Cine-Technician, July-August 1938
• The Problem of Better Films As I See It by Leslie Howard, interview with J. Danvers Williams. – Film Weekly, September 17, 1938
• Love and Acting Don’t Mix by Fred Colton – Motion Picture, December 1938
• Leslie Howard by Puck – Cinema, n. 35, October 10, 1938 (in Italian)

1939

• What He Really Wants by Molly Castle – Daily Mirror, January 9, 1939
• The Life Story of Leslie Howard – Picture Show, January 21, 1939
• Hollywood Sights and Sounds: Pygmalion by Robbin Coons – Niagara Falls Gazette, February 1, 1939
• England’s Two Howards by The British Nomad – Film Pictorial, April 15, 1939
• Frankly Forty by Julia Shawell – Modern Screen, May 1939
• Taking Stock of Leslie Howard by Bill Blenker – Motion Picture, May 1939
• That Scarlett Woman by Jessie Henderson – Hollywood, July 1939
• Personality Plus! by Leslie Howard – The Picturegoer Summer Annual for 1939
• Leslie Howard’s Letters to His Son – Picturegoer and Film Weekly, September 30, 1939
• Leslie Howard’s Bitter Triumph by May Mann – Screen Book, October 1939
• The Unconventional Mr. Howard by Bruce Barrett – Movies, November 1939
• Leslie and the Ladies by Ben Maddox – Screenland, November 1939

1940

• J’ai rencontré Leslie Howard…  M.B. [Marguerite Bussot] – Pour Vous, 17 janvier 1940 (in French)
• Leslie Howard, le héros poétique de “Autant en emporte le vent – France Magasin, 30 janvier 1940 (in French)
• Leslie Howard’s Letter to Picture Show Readers – Picture Show and Film Pictorial, July 27, 1940
• Is He Priestley’s Successor? by John Dwynn – Picture Post, November 30, 1940

1941

• First Day on the New Film – Picture Post, February 8, 1941
• What Should Leslie Howard Do Now? by Hubert Cole – Picturegoer, February 8, 1941
• Leslie Howard, Anglo-American Interpreter by Harold Hobson – The Christian Science Monitor, October 18, 1941
• The First of the Few – The Tatler and Bystander, December 24, 1941

1942

• The Ten Most Attractive Men in Hollywood by Dorothy Kilgallen – Photoplay-Movie Mirror, November 1942
• War Work Keeps Leslie Howard Continuously on the Move by Ernie Pyle – St. Petersburg Times, November 4, 1942
• Hopping Around With Ernie Pyle by Ernie Pyle – The Free-Lance Star, November 6, 1942

1943

• It’s Up to You, Mr. Howard! by the Editor [Hubert Cole] – Picturegoer, May 15, 1943
• Leslie Howard by A.A. [Anthony Asquith] – The Cine-Technician, May-June 1943
• British Screen’s Debt to Leslie Howard by The Chiel – The Argus, Melbourne, June 4, 1943
• Always for England: Leslie Howard the Patriot by Charles Buttrose – Sydney Morning Herald, June 5, 1943
• In Salute To a Fine Actor And a Very Great Gentleman by Kaspar Monahan – The Pittsburgh Press, June 6, 1943
• Leslie Howard: An Appreciation by C.A. Lejeune – The Observer, June 6, 1943
• Leslie Howard: What He Means to Me by E.M. – The Sunday Post, June 6, 1943
• Leslie Howard by R.J. Thomson – Essex Chronicle, June 11, 1943
• Man and His Image by Bosley Crowther – The New York Times, June 20, 1943
• Leslie Howard by the Editor [Hubert Cole] – Picturegoer, June 26, 1943
• Leslie Howard’s Last Film – Illustrated, June 26, 1943
• A Symbol of England by C.A. Lejeune – New York Times, June 27, 1943
• V-Male by May Mann – Motion Picture Magazine, July 1943
• Fidler in Hollywood by Jimmie Fidler – Nevada State Journal, July 4, 1943
• Fate of Leslie Howard Troubles Englishmen by Alice Pardoe West – Ogden Standard Examiner, July 11, 1943
• Leslie Howard Had a Hunch of Death by Nazi Blow – The World’s News, Sydney, October 30, 1943

1944

• La vida privada de Leslie Howard, el astro extinguido. – Madrid-Barcelona, Ed. Friso, [1944] (in Spanish)
• In Memory of Leslie Howard – The Times, May 24-25, 1944
• Adieu, Leslie Howard by Pierre Bourgeois – Le Face à Main, November 4, 1944 (in French)

1945

• Ricordo di Leslie Howard by Massimo Dandi – Star, September 1, 1945 (in Italian)

1948

• Howard by L.C. Henshaw – Film Illustrated, vol. 3 no. 6, June 1948

1951

• La mujer del vestido malva mató a Leslie Howard by Sholto Adams – In Fotogramas, February 9, 1951 (in Spanish)

1953

• Med Ett Lejons Hjärta – Filmjournalen, May 3, 1953 (in Swedish)

1956

• Leslie Howard and the Mystery of Flight 777 by Ian Colvin – The Argus, September 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 1956 (pdf)
• Come morì Leslie Howard di Luciano Vasconi – L’Unità, October 22, 1956 (in Italian)

1957

• Le mystère du vol 777, p. 1 – par Ian Colvin – Moustique, January 27, 1957 (in French)
• The Strange Death of Leslie Howard by Maurice B. Long – Argosy, April 1957

1958

• Il segreto di Leslie Howard by Carlo Sprea – Lei, March 29, 1958 (in Italian)

1959

• Leslie Howard by Homer Dickens – Film in Review, April 1959

1962

• Leslie Howard– The perfect Englishman by Richard Schickel – In: The Stars, 1962, p. 150-151

1974

• Leslie Howard: Le dernier des grands romantiques by J.V. Cottom – In: Ciné Revue, January 31, 1974 (in French)

1982

• Leslie Howard Story Bland by Margot Dee Kunkel – The Pittsburgh Press, February 23, 1982

1985

• The Strange Death of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Ward Phillips – Air Classics, April 1985

1987

• Stars von Gestern: Leslie Howard – In: Filmspiegel, n. 19, 1987 (in German)

1992

• Leslie Howard Star of Intermezzo and Gone With the Wind in Beverly Hills by Brendan Gill – Architectural Digest, April 1992

2002

• Leslie Howard and Stowe Maries – Westcott Local History Group, July 2002

2003

• Howard and Churchill, © Rowan Matthews – N/461, ©2003

2007

• Star-Studded Home Where a Film Idol Pined for His Dead Mistress – The Mail on Sunday, February 25, 2007

2008

• La estrella que quiso ser un héroe, by Jeronimo Andreu – El Pais, August 17, 2008 (in Spanish)
• British Film Star Was Secret Agent, Claims Author by Giles Tremlett – The Guardian, October 6, 2008
• Actor Leslie Howard Kept Spain Out of WWII, Claims Author by Fiona Govan – The Telegraph, October 6, 2008
• Reddede Leslie Howard Europa fra fascismen? af Michael Bo – Politiken, October 14, 2008 (in Danish)

2009

• Star of Gone with the Wind Spied on Ireland by Bill Bond – The Mail on Sunday, May 24, 2009

• Philip French’s screen legends – No. 68: Leslie Howard 1893-1943 – The Guardian, August 30, 2009

• From Leslie Howard to Raoul Wallenberg: the transmission and adaptation of a heroic model by Richard Raskin – P.O.V. nr. 28, December 2009

2011

• Leslie Howard, Actor and British Hero by Joseph Esposito – The Ghost of Herodotus, February 9, 2011
• Leslie Howard – The Lost Actor by Eric Kings – The Norwood Review, Spring 2011
• Ja, I Shot Down That Gone With the Wind Star by Bojan Pancevski – The Sunday Times, April 17, 2011
• A Few Questions to Tom Hamilton by Carlos Guerreiro – Land in Portugal, June 11, 2011

2012

• The Shootdown of Leslie Howard by Dwight Jon Zimmermann – Defense Media Network, [2012]

2013

• Remembering Leslie Howard by Aliya Whiteley – Den of Geek, February 12, 2013
• Why Did the Nazis Murder Leslie Howard by Clare Colvin – The Lady, April 10, 2013
• Leslie Howard and the mystery of Flight 777 by Clare Colvin – Waterstones.com, May 4, 2013
• The Shootdown of Leslie Howard by Dwight John Zimmerman – Defense Media Network, June 20, 2013
• The Little-Known Film That Changed History by Lawrence J. Epstein – The Best American Poetry, July 12, 2013

2014

• Oh, Ashley! : The mysterious fate of BOAC Flight 777 by Sean Munger  – Seanmunger.com, June 1st, 2014
• The Leslie Howard Mystery by David Edgerley Gates – SleuthSayers, July 9, 2014

2015

• Leslie Howard’s Movie Legacy in Perspective by Jessica Zack – SFGate, February 7, 2015