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Tragic tales of Hollywood legends killed in World War II remembered on Memorial Day
As the Second World War ravaged the globe, every sort of person was swept inexorably into its grisly vortex.
While on his madcap Iberian trip, he had a fling with a baroness even though he was told she might be a Nazi spy and also crossed paths with his ex, the local actress Conchita Montenegro - who claimed more than half a century later that Howard attempted to use her fascist husband's connections as a means of bending Franco's ear. But he rescheduled his trip to be a day earlier than planned, such that two passengers had to be kicked off to accommodate the movie star and his pudgy cigar-chomping agent, who bore a distinct resemblance to Winston Churchill, according to the book Flight 777: The Mystery of Leslie Howard by Ian Colvin. Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Bob Hope, Claudette Colbert, Rosalind Russell, Gary Cooper, Bette Davis, Charles Boyer and more were in attendance, per Christian Blauvelt's book Hollywood Victory: The Movies, Stars, and Stories of World War II.
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