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Leslie Howard (1893-1943) was an English actor who played Ashley Wilkes in Gone With the Wind (1939). Leslie was the most reluctant cast member to participate in the film, even more so than Clark Gable. He only agreed to do it because David Selznick promised him to be a producer in Intermezzo...
Set in the American South against the backdrop of the Civil War and the Reconstruction era, the film tells the story of Scarlett O'Hara ( Vivien Leigh ), the strong-willed daughter of a Georgia plantation owner, following her romantic pursuit of Ashley Wilkes ( Leslie Howard ), who is married to his cousin, Melanie Hamilton ( Olivia de Havilland...
Oct 31, 2023 · Gone With the Wind: 80 Years since the quintessential English gentleman Leslie Howard was mysteriously shot down over the Atlantic. Flight 777 was downed over the Atlantic in 1943, killing one of the treasures of British acting. But why? The answer is shrouded in a maelstrom of espionage and counter-espionage. By Isaac Zamet. 31 October 2023.
Mar 10, 2023 · Leslie Howard is perhaps best remembered in American film history as Scarlett O’Hara’s love obsession, Ashley Wilkes, in the 1940 film Gone with the Wind, an interesting film that appears to be a love story, but is also an extensive American Civil War saga.
Mar 30, 2024 · Other memorable films in which he starred include Of Human Bondage (1934), The Scarlet Pimpernel (1935), The Petrified Forest (1936), Romeo and Juliet (1936), and Gone with the Wind (1939). In the latter he was cast as the honourable Ashley Wilkes, who rejects Scarlett O’Hara (played by Vivien Leigh ) to marry his first cousin.
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The story begins in 1861. Scarlett is in love with Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard), but she learns that he intends to marry his cousin Melanie Hamilton (Olivia de Havilland). At a party at Ashley’s home, Scarlett’s overtures to Ashley are seen by another guest, Rhett Butler (Clark Gable). Ashley rebuffs Scarlett, and she therefore agrees to ...
