Dictionaries, Biographies, Studies

Dictionaries, Encyclopaedias, Repertories

• Howard, Leslie in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
• Howard, Leslie in Who’s Who in the Twentieth Century
• Leslie Howard in Encyclopaedia Britannica
• Howard, Leslie in BFI Screenonline
• Howard Leslie in Encyclopaedia Universalis
• Howard, Leslie in Treccani.it Enciclopedia Italiana
• Howard, Leslie in Treccani.it Enciclopedia Italiana – 2° Aggiornamento (1948)
• Howard, Leslie in Historical Dictionary of British Film by Alan Barton, Steve Chibnall. Scarecrow Press, 2013
• Howard, Leslie in The A to Z of American Theatre: Modernism by James Fisher, Felicia Hardson Londre. Rowman & Littlefield, 2009
• Howard, Leslie in Historical Dictionary of Contemporary American Theater: 1930-2010 by James Fisher. Scarecrow Press, 2011
• Howard, Leslie in Hollywood and the Foreign Touch: A Dictionary of Foreign Filmmakers and Their Films from America, 1910-1995 by Harry Waldman. Scarecrow Press, 1996
• Howard, Leslie in The Film Encyclopaedia by Ephraim Katz, Ronald Dean Nolan. Harper Collins, 2013
• Howard, Leslie Steiner in Dizionario Larousse del Cinema Americano. Gremese, 1998
• Howard, Leslie in International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers. 2001 – via Encyclopedia.com

Biographies, Studies, Articles

• Aldgate, Anthony ; Richards, Jeffrey : Britain Can Take It: The British Cinema in the Second World War. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1994. [The Englishman’s Englishman, p. 61-103]
• Bordman, Gerald. American Theatre : A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama, 1930-1969. Oxford University Press, 1996 [Leslie Howard on stage]
• Boyle, Charles. Another Hamlet: The Mystery of Leslie Howard. Forever Press, 2011 [Essay and screenplay supporting the fanciful theory of Leslie’s presumed belief that Shakespeare was the Earl of Oxford]
• Brunel, Adrian. Nice Work: The Story of Thirty Years in British Film Production. London, Forbes Robertson, 1949 [A whole chapter deals with Leslie and the Minerva Films experience. Another chapter about the filming of The Gentle Sex]
• Burns, Jimmy. Papa Spy. Bloomsbury, 2011 [Contains a chapter about Leslie’s journey to Portugal and Spain]
• Colvin, Ian. Flight 777: The Mystery Of Leslie Howard. London: Evans Brothers, 1957 [Ian Colvin’s investigation about Leslie Howard’s death]
• Eforgan, Estel. Leslie Howard: The Lost Actor. London: Vallentine Mitchell Publishers, 2010. 2nd revised edition, 2012 [Leslie’s biography, with a strong accent on the last years of Leslie’s life–almost half book deals with the years 1939-1943]
• Gargan, William. Why Me? An Autobiography. New York : Doubleday, 1969 [Some amusing anecdotes narrated by Leslie’s pal ]
• Howard, Leslie Ruth. A Quite Remarkable Father: A Biography of Leslie Howard. New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1959 [Leslie’s biography, written by his daughter]
• Howard, Ronald. In Search of My Father: A Portrait of Leslie Howard. London: St. Martin’s Press, 1984
  [A biographical book written by Leslie’s son, mainly focused on the last years of his father’s live and on his death]
• Kelly, Andrew; Richards, Jeffrey; Pepper, James. Filming T. E. Lawrence: Korda’s Lost Epic. I.B Tauris, 1997 [About Alexander Korda’s project of a film on T.E. Lawrence war adventures. Leslie was a possible Lawrence]
• Leeming Tuttle, Esther. No Rocking Chair For Me. iUniverse, 2004 [Memories of  Leslie and The Petrified Forest on stage; the author was in the cast]
• Rattigan, Neil: This Is England: British Film and the People’s War, 1939-1945. Madison, Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2001 [The First of the Few, p. 52 et seq.]
• Rey Ximena, José. El Vuelo de Ibis. Madrid: Facta Ediciones SL, 2008 [about Leslie’s last journey and death]
• Richards, Jeffrey. The Age of the Dream Palace: Cinema and Society in 1930s Britain. I.B. Tauris, 2010 [Chpt. 13: The Romantic Adventurer: Robert Donat and Leslie Howard, p. 225 et seq.]
• Richards, Jeffrey. Films and British National Identity: From Dickens to Dad’s Army. Manchester University Press, 1997 [Leslie during WW2]
• Van Neste, Dan.“Leslie Howard: Unmasking the Pimpernel”
  [This article was published in “Films of the Golden Age”, issue 19, Winter 1999-2000, and is partially available online; the printed article, however, is much longer, with many photos and an extensive filmography]
• Shafer, Stephen C. British Popular Film 1929-1939: The Cinema of Reassurance. London: Routledge, 1997 [Contains a chapter on Pygmalion]

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