Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard

Anthony Asquith was born in 1902, the son of a Liberal prime minister, which did not prevent him from spending his whole career in the studios and from presiding, from 1937 until his death, over the union of British film technicians; he insisted that everyone call him by the nickname his mother gave him. He stayed in Hollywood in 1925 to learn the trade, then joined an English company making educational films and fiction. He directed thirty-six feature films in nearly forty years, mostly adaptations of plays, and died in 1968.

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• CinemaPygmalionAnthony Asquith and Leslie Howard · 1938Cinema