Editing Leslie Howard (section)

==Personal life==
Howard married Ruth Evelyn Martin (1895–1980) on 3 March 1916.<ref name="ODNB"/> Their children were [[Ronald Howard (British actor)|Ronald "Winkie"]] (1918–1996) and Leslie Ruth "Doodie" (1924–2013) who appeared with her father and David Niven in the film ''[[The First of the Few]]'' (1942), playing the role of nurse to David Niven's character, and was a major contributor in the filmed biography of her father, ''Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn''. His son, [[Ronald Howard (British actor)|Ronald Howard]], became an actor and played the title role in the television series ''[[Sherlock Holmes (1954 TV Series)|Sherlock Holmes]]'' (1954).<ref>"Ronald H. Stainer, mmn = Martin." ''GRO Register of Births: Lambeth'', June 1918, 1d 598.</ref> His younger brother [[Arthur Howard|Arthur]] was also an actor, primarily in British comedies. His sister [[Irene Howard|Irene]] was a costume designer and a casting director for [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]].<ref>Ronald Howard, ''In Search of My Father: A Portrait of Leslie Howard'', St. Martin's Press, New York 1981 {{ISBN|0-312-41161-8}}</ref> His sister Doris Stainer founded the [[Hurst Lodge School]] in [[Sunningdale]], [[Berkshire]], in 1945 and remained its headmistress until the 1970s.<ref>''[[The Times]]'', issue 50336 dated Saturday, 29 December 1945, p. 1</ref>

Howard was widely known as a "ladies' man", and he once said that he "didn't chase women but ... couldn't always be bothered to run away".<ref name="ron" /><ref name="Gazeley">Gazeley, Helen. [https://web.archive.org/web/20101003134606/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/3357830/Memories-of-Hollywood-in-the-hills-of-Surrey.html "Memories of Hollywood, in the hills of Surrey."] ''The Daily Telegraph'' (London), 29 April 2007. Retrieved: 4 August 2010.</ref> Howard reportedly fathered a daughter - [[Carol Grace]], born 1924 - by Rosheen Marcus; Carol twice married writer [[William Saroyan]] and then actor [[Walter Matthau]].<ref>[http://matthau.com/carol/biography.html "Matthau family official website"], matthau.com; accessed April 17, 2021.</ref> He reportedly had affairs with [[Tallulah Bankhead]] when they appeared on stage in the UK in ''Her Cardboard Lover'' (1927), with [[Merle Oberon]] while filming ''The Scarlet Pimpernel'' (1934) and with [[Conchita Montenegro]], with whom he had appeared in the film ''Never the Twain Shall Meet'' (1931).<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022197/ IMDb Never the Twain Shall Meet (1931)] ''imdb.com'', accessed 1 June 2018</ref> There were also rumours of affairs with Norma Shearer and [[Myrna Loy]] during filming of ''The Animal Kingdom''.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/sep/12/leslie-howard-found-footage "Leslie Howard found footage."]''The Guardian'', 12 September 2010. Retrieved: 3 May 2012.</ref> 

Howard fell in love with Violette Cunnington in 1938 while working on ''Pygmalion''. She was secretary to [[Gabriel Pascal]] who was producing the film; she became Howard's secretary and lover and they travelled to the United States and lived together while he was filming ''Gone with the Wind'' and ''Intermezzo'' (both 1939). His wife and daughter joined him in Hollywood before production ended on the two films, making his arrangement with Cunnington somewhat uncomfortable for everyone.<ref>Howard, L. R. 1959.</ref>{{page needed|date= October 2022}}<ref>Howard, L., ed. with R. Howard 1982.</ref>{{page needed|date= October 2022}}<ref>Howard, R. 1984.</ref>{{page needed|date= October 2022}} He moved from the United States to Britain with his wife and daughter in August, 1939. Cunnington soon followed. She appeared in ''"Pimpernel" Smith'' (1941) and ''The First of the Few'' (1942) in minor roles under the stage name of Suzanne Clair. She died of pneumonia in her early thirties in 1942, just six months before Howard's death. Howard left her his [[Beverly Hills]] house in his will.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20081215012903/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,933383,00.html "Milestones, 8 May 1944."] ''Time'' magazine, 8 May 1944.</ref><ref>Gates, Anita. [https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/07/movies/moviesspecial/07gate2.html "The Good Girl Gets the Last Word (interview with Olivia de Havilland)."] ''The New York Times'', 7 November 2004. Retrieved 22 July 2010.</ref>

The Howard family's home in Britain was Stowe Maries, a 16th-century, six-bedroom farmhouse on the edge of [[Westcott, Surrey]].<ref name="Gazeley"/> His will revealed an estate of £62,761, the equivalent of £{{Formatprice|{{Inflation|UK|62761|1943|{{inflation-year|UK}}|r=-6}}}} as of {{inflation-year|UK}}.{{Inflation-fn|UK}}<ref>Parker, John. "1939." ''Who's Who in the Theatre'', 10th ed. London: Pitmans, 1947.</ref> An [[English Heritage]] [[blue plaque]] was placed at 45 Farquhar Road, Upper Norwood, London in 2013.<ref name='EngHet'>{{cite web |url=http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/discover/blue-plaques/search/howard-leslie-1893-1943 |title=Howard, Leslie (1893–1943) |publisher=[[English Heritage]] |access-date=4 May 2014}}</ref>