A New Beginning - I wish Leslie Howard hadn’t always been cast into...

A New Beginning


***TRY NEW THINGS AS YOU GET OLDER** * "If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together.. there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart.. I’ll always be with you.“—Winnie the Pooh

30th January 2012

I wish Leslie Howard hadn’t always been cast into roles where he was seen as weak. Case in point, as Ashley Wilkes in Gone With the Wind. Wilkes was a generally distasteful character who paled in comparison to Clark Gable’s Rhett Butler. It wasn’t the first time Gable showed him up, Leslie almost lost Norma Shearer in A Free Soul to Gable years earlier. Leslie Howard was an incredible actor who could seamlessly shift from doing serious drama to lighthearted comedy and he was strikingly good to boot. I wish that when people looked at Leslie Howard they wouldn’t just see Ashley Wilkes, but the brilliant man behind him. But most of all I wish Leslie Howard hadn’t died so young. His early death has prevented the world from ever knowing what could have been

I wish Leslie Howard hadn’t always been cast into roles where he was seen as weak. Case in point, as Ashley Wilkes in Gone With the Wind. Wilkes was a generally distasteful character who paled in comparison to Clark Gable’s Rhett Butler. It wasn’t the first time Gable showed him up, Leslie almost lost Norma Shearer in A Free Soul to Gable years earlier.

Leslie Howard was an incredible actor who could seamlessly shift from doing serious drama to lighthearted comedy and he was strikingly good to boot. I wish that when people looked at Leslie Howard they wouldn’t just see Ashley Wilkes, but the brilliant man behind him.

But most of all I wish Leslie Howard hadn’t died so young. His early death has prevented the world from ever knowing what could have been

Source: theinvincible-summer

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