Leslie Howard as "Lawrence"

Radio Record, 18 March 1938, Page 28

Leslie Howard as "Lawrence"

|T is reported that Paramount are going to make ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ with Leslie Howard in the starring role. Production will be carried out in England. It is over three years since Alexander Korda announced his intention of making this picture for London Films. He, too, had chosen Howard to play the role of Lawrence, but then Howard’s American contracts came in the way, and so Korda stated that he would give the part to an unknown actor named . Walter Hudd, whose physical ressemblance to the Uncrowned King of Arabia was said to be remarkable. But, like several other Korda ventures, the proposition was shelved. Now, apparently, Paramount have taken it over from him, and Leslie Howard goes back in the part which he has always wanted to play. POC ee ee