The term “Hollywood Raj” was given to that group of British actors who quietly invaded Hollywood during the late 1920s and the 1930s. Combing melancholy and wistfulness wrapped in a suave British accent, it was personified by such stalwart greats the ones pictured above: Leslie Howard, Cary Grant, Basil Rathbone, C. Aubrey Smith, Ronald Colman, Claude Rains, David Niven, Donald Crisp, Herbert Marshall, Brian Aherne and Victor McLaglen.