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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’
The story is set in 1911 London at the time of George V's coronation. American-born chorus girl Mary Morgan becomes involved with Balkan archduke Charles, the widowed prince regent of Carpathia, after he sees a performance of her West End musical The Coconut Girl. She soon becomes involved with the actions of his teenaged son, King Nicholas, as ...
The Queen Was in the Parlour is a 1927 Anglo-German silent drama film directed by Graham Cutts and starring Lili Damita, Louis Ralph and Paul Richter. [2] It was based on the Noël Coward play The Queen Was in the Parlour.
Greenwich Entertainment has acquired U.S. and Canadian distribution rights to “Mad About the Boy – The Noel Coward Story,” an intimate portrait of one of the 20th century’s greatest ...
The playwright John Osborne said, "Mr Coward is his own invention and contribution to this century. Anyone who cannot see that should keep well away from the theatre." [5] Kenneth Tynan wrote in 1964, "Even the youngest of us will know, in fifty years' time, exactly what we mean by 'a very Noel Coward sort of person'."
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 had one play produced before The Young Idea. I'll Leave It to You , a light comedy, was given in Manchester and then London in 1920, achieving a total of 61 performances. In 1921, Coward was appearing at the St James's Theatre , London, in Polly With a Past , a comedy by George Middleton and Guy Bolton .