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• W239676644 abstract "Leslie Howard: The Lost Actor. By Estel Eforgan. London and Portland, OR: Vallentine Mitchell and Co., Ltd., 2010. vii + 269 pp. $74.95 cloth. x + 288 pp. $29.95 paper.In this carefully researched biography, Estel Eforgan reveals the many ironies in Leslie Howard's starring role as Ashley Wilkes in Gone With the Wind. An Englishman through and through, Howard could claim no southern lineage. Yet even his Englishness possessed a certain qualifica- tion. His father, a Hungarian Jew, had come to London by way of Vienna. His mother's family, three generations earlier, had originated among the Jews of East Prussia. At the time that Howard played a starring role in Gone With the Wind, one of MGM's landmark productions in its anis mirabilis, 1939, his eyes were firmly set on England. Leslie Howard hoped to resur- rect Britain's film industry despite the looming threat of war. He intended to contribute to British cinema not only in front of the camera but also in production as scriptwriter and director. The war itself would give Howard his subject matter. Eforgan captures the many facets of Howard's career. She contextualizes that career within the broader history of Anglo-American theater and cinema in the first half of the twentieth century.Up until 1939, Howard had fit comfortably among the British expatriates in Hollywood who had trained on the stage of late Edwardian London. Sound had brought them to the movie colony. Their accents gave the pictures a measure of sophistication, just as the censoring Hayes Office began to exert authority over the studios.Howard's role in Intermezzo in 1939, the film that made Ingrid Bergman a star, changed his life and, had Howard lived longer, might have changed the course of British cinema. In contributing to the production of Intermezzo, Howard recognized that making movies, not just acting in them, was his calling. He returned to Britain to resurrect British cinema; he intended to re-make it if he could, employing a broad range of talents well honed on both sides of the Atlantic in theater and film.Howard's wartime success, combining previously unrecognized talents as a producer, director, and scriptwriter as well as utilizing his much vaunted skill as an actor, make him worthy of a biography. Like so many in Britain, Howard reached the height of his powers in the crucible of war. If he had been Ashley Wilkes before the war, he became the incognito anti-Nazi liberator Pimpernel Smith with the Blitz. In December 1940 Howard pro- claimed, say to hell with whether what I say is propaganda or not. (171)Resurrecting British cinema, under wartime conditions or not, was no mean task. World War I had devastated the British After 1927, sound production had enabled Hollywood to overwhelm what re- mained. Howard himself summed up British cinema's dilemma: We have never succeeded in invading the U.S. ... market on a scale even remotely comparable to their invasion of ours (207). Eforgan explains that Howard intended to look to Europe and Britain itself for his market. He hoped to jointly produce films with French and Italian companies after the war. But first and foremost, he hoped to realize a lifelong ambition to develop the British film industry. (205) He nearly succeeded. …" @default.
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