 This re-launched Bogart's screen career, and the two men became lifelong friends; Bogart and Lauren Bacall later named their daughter "Leslie Howard Bogart" after him.In the same year Howard starred with Norma Shearer in a film version of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" (1936)

Davis was again Howard's co-star in the romantic comedy "It's Love I'm After" (1937) (also co-starring Olivia de Havilland).He played Professor Henry Higgins in the film version of George Bernard Shaw's play "Pygmalion" (1938), with Wendy Hiller as Eliza, which earned Howard another Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, but went almost ignored in Britain.