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If all of Tumblr had seen Basil Rathbone tied up and defiant in that one Sherlock film and not just as a suave gentleman he'd have won every poll contest he was put in.

Ah, the duality of man!

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Leslie Howard in the John Galsworthy production of “Escape” (1928)

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Basil Rathbone with Nigel Bruce in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)

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June 1st. Leslie Howard memory day!

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Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer in A Free Soul, 1931

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Did you know?

Violette (Charlotte) Cunnington a.k.a. Suzanne Clair (born in France in April 7, 1910, died on 3 November 1942 in Stepney, London, England, UK) playing two films, Pimpernel Smith (1941) and First of the Few (1942), she was Leslie Howard secretary, since the 1938, after film Pygmalion.

Leslie Howard with Marlene Dietrich and Violette Cunnington in Palm Springs, 1939

Violette Cunnington and Leslie Howard, 1939

Leslie Howard and Violette Cunnington in Pimpernel Smith, 1941

Leslie Howard meet Violette Cunnington in French shop, film Pimpernel Smith, 1941

David Niven and Violette Cunnington in The First of the Few, 1942

Leslie Howard, Violette Cunnington, David Niven in The First of the Few, 1942

Titles in the First of the Few, 1942

Violette Cunnington in The First of the Few, 1942

From wiki: 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 United States 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. He left the United States for the last time with his wife and daughter in August, 1939 and 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 Beverley Hills house in his will.

From Leslie Howard Steiner Blog: Leslie Howard and his companion, Violette Cunnington, who died of a sudden illness approximately six months before his own death. In her book, Leslie Howard: The Lost Actor, Estel Eforgan reports that according to the sculptor, Oscar Nemon, who was working on a statue of Howard at the time of his death, he had been asked by Howard to "provide figures for a memorial garden to Violette." In a footnote, Eforgan reports that Nemon's unpublished memoirs include the following comments regarding Violette's death: "he [Leslie] was inconsolable and wrote her a 10,000 word letter which finished, 'Violette, I shall be with you soon.'" Howard was not a man who wanted to die, but did he have a premonition about his own death?

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a silent movie

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Basil Rathbone

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Leslie Howard in Berkeley Square (1933)

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The petrified Forest

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Leslie Howard in the stage production of “Hamlet”

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Leslie Howard and Myrna Loy in “The Animal Kingdom” (1932)

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A consummate entertainer, Pearl Bailey was born with God-given talents. Singing, acting, dancing, she did it all with a mischievous spirit that captivated audiences.

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Leslie Howard photograph’s his son, Ronald “winkie” Howard, in the swimming pool

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