Claim: Leslie Howard performed on Broadway.

Berkeley Square is a 1933 American Pre-Code fantasy drama film produced by Fox Film Corporation , directed by Frank Lloyd , and starring Leslie Howard and Heather Angel . It recounts the tale of young American Peter Standish , played by Howard -LRB- nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor -RRB- , who is transported back to London shortly after the American Revolution , where he meets his ancestors . The film was based on the play of the same name by John L. Balderston , itself loosely based on the incomplete novel The Sense of the Past by Henry James . Howard also played Standish in the Broadway play .   The film was thought to have been lost until it was rediscovered in the 1970s . A newly restored 35mm print has been made , and the restored version was first shown at the 2011 H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival .