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Right?!?! The mind boggles.

OH MY GOD EMMA ORCZY THOUGHT LESLIE HOWARD WAS TOO SHORT TO PLAY THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL.

"Howard was certainly very attractive, very charming, he knew how to make love, but he was not Fred Terry. Fred Terry was the ideal Sir Percy and there cannot be two ideals in one's mind of the one character. Howard had physical defects just as Laughton had: he was short and could not look strong enough to dominate certain situations, nor could he tower over Chauvelin, played, as it happened, by a very tall man."

She probably never did watch Pimpernel Smith.