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Noël Coward. Writer: In Which We Serve. Noel Coward virtually invented the concept of Englishness for the 20th century. An astounding polymath - dramatist, actor, writer, composer, lyricist, painter, and wit -- he was defined by his Englishness as much as he defined it. He was indeed the first Brit pop star, the first ambassador of "cool Britannia." Even before his 1924 drugs-and-sex scandal ...
1 de dic. de 2021 · Coward’s most memorable role in British intelligence would come in the Cold War, as a star rather than a spy: the satirical portrayal of a fictional SIS officer in the 1959 film Our Man in Havana. Barry Day’s masterfully edited The Letters of Noël Coward (Methuen Drama, 2008), is referenced in the relevant section of Stars and Spies ...
27 de mar. de 1973 · Sir Noel Coward, actor, playwright, composer and director, dies on March 26 of heart attack at his home in Jamaica, West Indies; rev of his career notes recent revival of interest in his works in ...
Cavalcade. (play) Cavalcade is a play by Noël Coward with songs by Coward and others. It focuses on three decades in the life of the Marryots, an upper-middle-class British family, and their servants, beginning in 1900 and ending in 1930, a year before the premiere. It is set against major historical events of the period, including the Relief ...
Noël Coward. Oscar onorario 1943. Sir Noël Coward, nato Noël Peirce Coward ( Teddington, 16 dicembre 1899 – Port Maria, 26 marzo 1973 ), è stato un commediografo, attore, regista nonché compositore di canzoni e produttore britannico . Il teatro inglese, che nel XIX secolo aveva dato evidenti segni di crisi, nel periodo intercorso tra le ...
Marie Tempest as Judith with Robert Andrews and Helen Spencer as her children, 1925. Hay Fever is a comic play written by Noël Coward in 1924. Its first production was in the West End in 1925 with Marie Tempest as Judith Bliss. A cross between high farce and a comedy of manners, the play is set in an English country house in the 1920s, and deals with the four eccentric members of the Bliss ...
B or n in London on the verge of the new century (specifically, on December 16, 1899) and into a middle-class family of modest means, Noël Coward was, as a youth, at once precocious and unworldly, well-read and witty but almost entirely without formal education, and lacking in any significant interests other than the theater. From the age of eleven he was a working actor on the West End stage ...
