Best remembered for his performance as Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind. During WWII he devoted his energies to the war effort and was killed in 1943 at the age of fifty, when the British Overseas Airways plane he was on was shot down by German fighters over the Bay of Biscay. Program for Leslie Howard’s 1936 production of Hamlet, signed in fountain pen on the last page beside a photo of the actor as the Prince of Denmark. In fine condition, with creasing and edge wear to the cover. R&R COA.
