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    Whatever happened to the guy who played Ashley in the movie 'Gone With the Wind'?

    Question #44652. Asked by rlaj. (Feb 25 04 2:31 PM)


    MaggieG 5

    		"Fiercely patriotic, Leslie Howard, who played Ashley Wilks in Gone with the Wind, traveled extensively on behalf of war relief; on one of these trips, he boarded a British Overseas Airways plane in 1943 with several other British notables, flying en route from England to Lisbon. The plane was shot down over the Bay of Biscay and all on board were killed. Only after the war ended was it revealed that Howard had selflessly taken that plane ride knowing it would probably never arrive in Lisbon; it was ostensibly carrying Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and was sent out as a decoy so that Churchill's actual plane would be undisturbed by enemy fire." ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

    Feb 25 04, 3:02 PM

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