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Following a rare interview with Montenegro shortly before her death, Spanish author José Rey Ximena claims in his book, El Vuelo del Ibis [The Flight of the Ibis] that British actor Leslie Howard, with whom Montenegro had an affair after the pair starred together in Never the Twain Shall Meet (1931), used Montenegro to get close to Spanish ...
- 1927–1944
- April 22, 2007 (aged 95), Madrid, Spain
- Concepción Andrés Picado, September 11, 1911, San Sebastián, Spain
- Leslie Howard
Never the Twain Shall Meet is a 1931 American drama film produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and starring Leslie Howard and Conchita Montenegro. It is based on the novel of the same title by Peter B. Kyne.
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Never the Twain Shall Meet, by Peter B. Kyne
Oct 31, 2023 · Another explanation is that while in Spain, Howard had been in liaison with Conchita Montenegro, a Spanish actress and a Hollywood old flame of his. Conchita had gone on to marry a senior far-right Falangist and claimed in a 2007 interview, shortly before her death, that Howard had used her fascist connections to contact Franco, in an attempt ...
[Leslie Howard, Conchita Montenegro and director W. S. Van Dyke on the set of Never the Twain Shall Meet, 1931]
May 29, 2020 · There was also his visit to Spain, which was officially called a lecture trip, but is thought by some to have been a clandestine visit to see General Franco, facilitated by Howard’s friend and...
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Mar 3, 2016 · According to one of Leslie’s former lovers, the ‘Spanish Greta Garbo’, Conchita Montenegro, he was sent by Churchill to Madrid to deliver a message to General Franco, the Germans found out about it and pounced on his return flight from Lisbon. Miss Montenegro confided this to a writer just before her death at 95 in 2007.
Oct 5, 2008 · Howard used his contacts with a former lover, Conchita Montenegro, to get through to Franco and deliver the message, the writer said. Montenegro, a Spanish actor, told Rey-Xímena the full...
