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  2. Graham Payn - Wikipedia

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    Graham Payn (25 April 1918 – 4 November 2005) was a South African-born English actor and singer, also known for being the life partner of the playwright Noël Coward. Beginning as a boy soprano, Payn later made a career as a singer and actor in the works of Coward and others. After Coward's death, Payn ran the Coward estate for 22 years.

  3. Noël Coward - Wikipedia

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    Coward in 1972. Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 1899 – 26 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".

  4. Clifton Webb - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. ‘I’m an enormously talented man’: The life of born show-off ...

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    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’

  6. The Most Dramatic ‘Today’ Show Exits Over the Years: Hoda ...

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    Couric took over Norville’s hosting spot in 1991 and remained on Today through 2006. She recalled her decision to leave the show in her 2021 memoir, Going There, writing, “By 2005, I was at a ...

  7. High Spirits (musical) - Wikipedia

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    High Spirits is a musical with a book, lyrics, and music by Hugh Martin and Timothy Gray, based on the play Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward, about a man coping with the ghost of his dead wife. Martin and Gray adhered closely to Coward's original text, while expanding the medium's character to the star role, initially calling the show Faster Than ...

  8. Noël Coward on stage and screen - Wikipedia

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    Light comedy in one scene 1935 1935 [37] Fumed Oak: Unpleasant comedy in two scenes 1935 1935 [38] Shadow Play: Play with music 1935 1935 [39] Family Album: Victorian comedy with music 1935 1935 [40] Star Chamber: Light comedy in one act 1936 1936 [41] Ways and Means: Comedy in three scenes 1936 1936 [42] Still Life: Play in five scenes 1936 ...

  9. Still Life (play) - Wikipedia

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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.