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The Wunderkammer of the Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense.

Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?

A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.

annethecatdetective: my-ear-trumpet: fondantfancyfree: Leslie Howard. Yet to be outfopped. “Cravats should be flounced about our necks” I am swooning an unrivaled swoon right now.

annethecatdetective:

my-ear-trumpet:

fondantfancyfree:

Leslie Howard. Yet to be outfopped.

“Cravats should be flounced about our necks”

I am swooning an unrivaled swoon right now.

(Source: chabeibei)

buppenisms:

lesliehowardforever:

Leslie Howard in The Scarlet Pimpernel, 1934

The funniest parts of this film were when he would harp on about the cravat.  Well, and also when he was asleep in Lord Grenville’s library.

(via trockneblumen)

fondantfancyfree: Leslie Howard. Yet to be outfopped. “Cravats should be flounced about our necks”

fondantfancyfree:

Leslie Howard. Yet to be outfopped.

“Cravats should be flounced about our necks”

(Source: chabeibei)

oldfilmsflicker: Happy Birthday Leslie Howard (3 April 1893 – 1 June 1943)

oldfilmsflicker:

Happy Birthday Leslie Howard (3 April 1893 – 1 June 1943)

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wehadfacesthen: Leslie Howard, April 3rd, 1893 - June 1, 1943 “The truth is that, to enjoy acting, one must be an exhibitionist at heart.” via the-asphalt-jungle

wehadfacesthen:

Leslie Howard, April 3rd, 1893 - June 1, 1943

“The truth is that, to enjoy acting, one must be an exhibitionist at heart.”

via the-asphalt-jungle

(Source: the-dark-city, via extranuance)

maudelynn: Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer in Romeo and Juliet c.1936

maudelynn:

Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer in Romeo and Juliet c.1936

ohmytweedysteed: classicnatalie: A wartime radio broadcast for NBC, with British stars left to right: Greer Garson, Leslie Howard, Vivien Leigh, Brian Aherne, Ronald Colman and Basil Rathbone The amount of awesome in a photograph is often the same as the amount of tweed in a photograph.

ohmytweedysteed:

classicnatalie:

A wartime radio broadcast for NBC, with British stars left to right: Greer Garson, Leslie Howard, Vivien Leigh, Brian Aherne, Ronald Colman and Basil Rathbone

The amount of awesome in a photograph is often the same as the amount of tweed in a photograph.

the-asphalt-jungle: The Petrified Forest (1936) Bette Davis & Leslie Howard

the-asphalt-jungle:

The Petrified Forest (1936) Bette Davis & Leslie Howard

(Source: the-dark-city, via bottlingsound)

victoriansecret:

Leslie Howard was a beautiful, beautiful man.