The Heroine of Mons explained

The Heroine of Mons
Director:	Wilfred Noy
Studio:	Clarendon Films
Distributor:	Gaumont British Distributors
Country:	United Kingdom

The Heroine of Mons is a 1914 British silent war film directed by Wilfred Noy (the maternal uncle of Leslie Howard^[1]) and starring Dorothy Bellew, Leslie Howard^[2] and Bert Wynne. The film marked the screen debut of Howard, who went on to be leading star of British and Hollywood cinema.^[3] The film was made during the opening weeks of the First World War, and refers to the Battle of Mons.

Cast

• Dorothy Bellew as The Girl
  • Leslie Howard Bert Wynne

Bibliography

• Cochrane, Claire. Twentieth-Century British Theatre: Industry, Art and Empire. Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Notes and References

1. Eforgan, Estel. Leslie Howard: The Lost Actor. London: Vallentine Mitchell Publishers, 2010. .
2. Estel Eforgan states in her book, Leslie Howard: The Lost Actor, that Howard's uncle managed to wrangle Howard into a crowd scene, this before Howard joined the military.
3. Cochrane p.97