I guess that's the kind of magic a great actor can wield.

I think he was beautiful, but I don't think he was conventionally beautiful. I love his weird looks. I always enjoy when directors noticed and made use of them—fairish, foolish Percy Blakeney, Atterbury Dodd in The Stand-In (1937)—or when Howard did himself. His Henry Higgins is a massive dork. People who know him only for Gone with the Wind do him such a disservice. (Gone with the Wind does him such a disservice.)