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Sir Noël Peirce Coward was an English playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".
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entertainment · English playwright, composer, actor (1899–1973) · film producer · playwright · lyricist · screenwriter · singer · theatre director · songwriter · film score composer · stage actor · film actor · also Noël Coward, Noel Pierce Coward, Sir Coward, Noel Peirce Coward, Sir Noel Coward, Noël Peirce Coward
Born 16 December 1899 · Died 26 March 1973 · Q298388
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s antediluvian attitudes, he had an extraordinary facility with dialogue, grasped the comic potential of adverbs and used music inventively – in Family Album, a mourning Victorian family shed their fake piety and end up dancing a jig. And, although Coward wrote the plays as star vehicles for himself and Gertrude Lawrence, they respond well to McIntyre
I am furious about Ace of Clubs not being a real smash and I have come to the conclusion that if they don
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“s antediluvian attitudes, he had an extraordinary facility with dialogue, grasped the comic potential of adverbs and used music inventively – in Family Album, a mourning Victorian family shed their fake piety and end up dancing a jig. And, although Coward wrote the plays as star vehicles for himself and Gertrude Lawrence, they respond well to McIntyre”
“I am furious about Ace of Clubs not being a real smash and I have come to the conclusion that if they don”
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“s website, drawing on performing statistics from the publishers and the Performing Rights Society, names”
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“I had thought of a good title, Sigh No More, which later, I regret to say, turned out to be the best part of the revue”
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“If anyone had told me at that time I was high up on the Nazi blacklist, I should have laughed ... I remember Rebecca West, who was one of the many who shared the honour with me, sent me a telegram which read:”
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British Theatre: Hay Fever at Wyndham's Theatre: Full Star-Studded Cast Announced for Noël Coward Revival
West End Best Friend: Full casting announced for Noël Coward’s HAY FEVER at Wyndham's Theatre
Theatre-News.com: Hay Fever: Full casting announced for Noël Coward’s West End comedy - Theatre-News.com
Playbill: See Who's Joining Christine Baranski in London Revival of Noël Coward's Hay Fever
Magzter: Expect laughter as Oberman takes on Coward male role
gazetteherald.co.uk: Noël Coward double bill coming to the Kirk Theatre
The Times: Encore! A century of dazzling theatre, from Coward to Caryl
The Scarborough News: Song, dance and bickering - curtain is due up on delightful Noel Coward double bill at Pickering's Kirk Theatre
Released album “In the USA”.
Released album “Cowardy Custard (Original London Festival Cast Recording)”.
Released album “Everything Stops for Tea”.
Released album “I Went to a Marvellous Party: His 45 Finest”.
Released album “Mad About Noël Coward”.
Released album “Conversation Piece and Other Musical Plays”.
An exhibition devoted to Coward was mounted at the National Theatre in London
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But 2008 is proving to be the year that Britain falls in love with Noël Coward all over again."
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Released album “Mad Dogs & Englishmen”.
In the archive of the Lord Chamberlain's Office, the official censor of stage plays in the UK until 1968
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Released album “The Best of Noël Coward”.
Released album “Conversation Piece”.
Released album “Sail Away (1962 original London cast)”.
Released album “Mad Dogs and Englishmen”.
Released album “A Room With A View The Complete Recordings Volume 1: 1928-1932”.
Released album “Noel Coward: Mad Dogs and Englishmen”.
Released album “On the Air: Broadcasts 1944-48”.
Released album “Noel Coward Sings Sail Away and Other Coward Rarities”.
Released album “Legends of the 20th Century”.
To mark the centenary of Coward's birth listed some of his major productions scheduled for the year in Britain and North America, including Ace of Clubs, After the Ball, Blithe Spirit, Cavalcade, Easy Virtue, Hay Fever,
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Released album “Noël & Gertie: Classic Original Recordings 1928-1947”.
Released album “If Love Were All (original cast)”.
Released album “Centenary Celebration”.
Released album “Noel and Gertie (1986 original London cast)”.
Released album “Glamorous Nights”.
Released album “The Songs of Noel Coward”.
Released album “Noel Coward Sings His Score for The Girl Who Came to Supper”.
Released album “The Master”.
Released album “Sail Away”.
Released album “Sutherland Sings Coward”.
Released album “The Masters' Voice”.
Released album “The Girl Who Came to Supper”.
Released album “The Noël Coward Album”.
Released album “Together With Music”.
Released album “Noël Coward and Gertrude Lawrence”.
Released album “A Room With a View”.
Released album “Noel Coward Sings Noel Coward”.
Released album “The Compact Coward”.
“disdaining archness and false modesty, I knew it was witty. I knew it was well constructed, and I also knew it would be a success.”
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Released album “The Noel Coward Album”.
Died 1973-03-26.
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“Having to read a footnote resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love.”
“Hollywood is a place where some people lie on the beach and look up at the stars, whereas other people lie on the stars and look down at the beach.”
“Television is for appearing on, not looking at.”
Was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters degree by the University of Sussex
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And was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
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Released album “Bitter Sweet”.
Told Time magazine, "I acted up like crazy
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"I am thrilled and flattered and frankly a little flabbergasted that the National Theatre should have had the curious perceptiveness to choose a very early play of mine and to give it a cast that could play the Albanian
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"Who would have thought the landmarks of the Sixties would include the emergence of Noël Coward as the grand old man of British drama
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"Even the youngest of us will know, in fifty years' time, exactly what we mean by 'a very Noel Coward sort of person'
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Released album “Noel Coward in New York”.
Coward's cabaret act at Las Vegas, recorded live for the gramophone and released as Noël Coward at Las Vegas, was highly successful
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Released album “At Las Vegas”.
Released album “I’ll See You Again”.
Was close to an acknowledgment of Coward's sexuality: "Forty years ago he was Slightly in Peter Pan, and you might say that he has been wholly in Peter Pan ever since
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For his naval film drama In Which We Serve and was knighted in 1970
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George VI wished to award Coward a knighthood for his efforts, but was dissuaded by Winston Churchill
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And he took up temporary residence at the Savoy Hotel
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And closed for lack of box-office business
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From 1934 until 1956, Coward was the president of the Actors' Orphanage, which was supported by the theatrical industry.
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Coward wrote, directed and co-starred with the French singer Yvonne Printemps in both London and New York productions of an operetta, Conversation Piece (1933)
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“My first instinct was to leave England immediately, but this seemed too craven a move, and also too gratifying to my enemies, whose numbers had by then swollen in our minds to practically the entire population of the British Isles.”
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“the two most beautiful things in the world are Ivor”
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Coward acquired Goldenhurst Farm, in Aldington, Kent, making it his home for most of the next thirty years, except when the military used it during the Second World War
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Premiered Fallen Angels, a three-act comedy that amused and shocked audiences with the spectacle of two middle-aged women slowly getting drunk while awaiting the arrival of their mutual lover
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Coward achieved his first great critical and financial success as a playwright with The Vortex
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After a provincial tour, with Coward in one of the leading roles
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Writing most of the songs and some of the sketches in André Charlot's London Calling
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Coward made his first trip to America, hoping to interest producers there in his plays
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At the age of 20, Coward starred in his own play, the light comedy I'll Leave It to You
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Coward was conscripted into the Artists Rifles but was assessed as unfit for active service because of a tubercular tendency, and he was discharged on health grounds after nine months
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Appeared in The Saving Grace, a comedy produced by Hawtrey
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In The Happy Family and on tour with Amy Brandon Thomas's company in Charley's Aunt
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But Mrs Astley Cooper continued to encourage her late friend's protégé, who remained a frequent guest at her estate, Hambleton Hall in Rutland
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When Coward was fourteen, he became the protégé and probably the lover of Philip Streatfeild, a society painter
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“gave me an orange and told me a few mildly dirty stories, and I loved her from then onwards.”
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And in the same year he was cast as the Lost Boy Slightly in Peter Pan
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Coward also appeared at the Savoy Theatre in An Autumn Idyll (as a dancer in the ballet) and at the London Coliseum in A Little Fowl Play, by Harold Owen, in which Hawtrey starred
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And 1912 at the Garrick Theatre in London's West End
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As the New Theatre and later called the Albery, was renamed in his honour after extensive refurbishment, re-opening on 1 June 2006
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Born 1899-12-16.
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In Teddington, Middlesex, a south-western suburb of London
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“Thank you,My Dear, but it was only petty larceny”
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