Leslie Howard

The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.

Dir. Victor Fleming · With Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Olivia de Havilland

When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.

Dir. Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard · With Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller, Wilfrid Lawson

Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day penniless intellectual Alan drifts into the joint and the two strike up a rapport. Soon enough, notorious killer Duke Mantee takes the diner's inhabitants hostage. Surrounded by miles of desert, the patrons and staff are forced to sit tight with Mantee and his gang overnight.

Dir. Archie Mayo · With Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart

In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada's Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade capture, a small band of German soldiers led by commanding officer Lieutenant Hirth attempts to cross the border into the United States, which has not yet entered the war and is officially neutral. Along the way, the German soldiers encounter brave men such as a French-Canadian fur trapper, Johnnie, a leader of a Hutterite farming community, Peter, an author, Philip and a soldier, Andy Brock.

Dir. Michael Powell · With Leslie Howard, Laurence Olivier, Raymond Massey

A young man finds himself attracted to a cold and unfeeling waitress who may ultimately destroy them both.

Dir. John Cromwell · With Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Frances Dee