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Still Life is a short play in five scenes by Noël Coward, one of ten plays that make up Tonight at 8.30, a cycle written to be performed across three evenings. [ n 1 ] One-act plays were unfashionable in the 1920s and 30s, but Coward was fond of the genre and conceived the idea of a set of short pieces to be played across several evenings.
Coward had a 19-year friendship with Prince George, Duke of Kent, but biographers differ on whether it was platonic. [134] Payn believed that it was, although Coward reportedly admitted to the historian Michael Thornton that there had been "a little dalliance". [135] Coward said, on the duke's death, "I suddenly find that I loved him more than ...
As a major new biography about Noel Coward is published half a century on from his death, Martin Chilton looks back on the life of the trailblazing playwright with ‘a talent to amuse’
Coward wrote more than three hundred songs. The Noël Coward Society's website, drawing on performing statistics from the publishers and the Performing Rights Society, names "Mad About the Boy" (from Words and Music) as Coward's most popular song, followed, in order, by: "
English playwright, composer and actor extraordinaire Noël Coward left behind a rich legacy when he died back in 1973, including hundreds of songs, plays, poems and short stories. One of his most ...
Coward adapted Still Life for the screen as Brief Encounter in 1945. [37] The film was remade in 1974 starring Richard Burton and Sophia Loren. [37] For a 1952 film, Meet Me Tonight (called Tonight at 8:30 in the US), directed by Anthony Pelissier, Coward adapted Ways and Means, Red Peppers and Fumed Oak. [38]
Webb Parmelee Hollenbeck (November 19, 1889 [1] – October 13, 1966), known professionally as Clifton Webb, was an American actor, singer, and dancer.He worked extensively and was known for his stage appearances in the plays of Noël Coward, including Blithe Spirit, as well as appearances on Broadway in a number of successful musical revues.
Lorraine not only resumed painting; she long outlived doctors’ prognoses for her life expectancy — churning out a trove of abstract works in the process — before her death three years ago.