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  2. 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.

  3. Noël Coward - Wikipedia

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    [n 5] One of these plays, Still Life, was expanded into the 1945 David Lean film Brief Encounter. [66] Tonight at 8.30 was followed by a musical, Operette (1938), from which the most famous number is "The Stately Homes of England", and a revue entitled Set to Music (1938, a Broadway version of his 1932 London revue, Words and Music ). [ 67 ]

  4. Tonight at 8.30 - Wikipedia

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    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]

  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. Noël Coward on stage and screen - Wikipedia

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    Brief Encounter, directed by David Lean (UK, 1945, based on the play Still Life) (Coward was also a screenwriter and producer) The Astonished Heart, directed by Terence Fisher (UK, 1950, based on the play of the same name) (Coward was also a screenwriter)

  7. Brief Encounter - Wikipedia

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    Brief Encounter is a 1945 British romantic drama film directed by David Lean from a screenplay by Noël Coward, based on his 1936 one-act play Still Life.The film stars Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard in lead roles, alongside Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey, Cyril Raymond, Everley Gregg and Margaret Barton in supporting roles.

  8. 'Antiques Roadshow:' Noël Coward items get a huge price tag

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    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 ...

  9. Category:Plays by Noël Coward - Wikipedia

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    Still Life (play) Suite in Three Keys; T. This Happy Breed; This Was a Man; Tonight at 8.30; V. The Vortex; W. Waiting in the Wings (play) Ways and Means (Coward play)