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Payn wrote his autobiography, My Life With Noël Coward, in 1994. In 1988, 15 years after Coward's death, Payn, who "hadn't the heart to use it again", gave their Jamaican home, the Firefly Estate, to the Jamaica National Heritage Trust. [19] He retained their other home, Chalet Covar, at Les Avants in Switzerland, where he died in 2005, aged ...
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".
After the tour, they went to rest in Hawaii for several months before returning to their home in Céligny where Burton died on 5 August 1984; Sally Burton was then 36. In 2012 Burton published the diaries of Richard Burton. She said her motivation was to show Burton's "love for words". In her review of the book, Barbara Ellen in The Guardian wrote
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’
Margaret Rutherford (Madame Arcati), Kay Hammond (Elvira) and Fay Compton (Ruth), 1941. Blithe Spirit is a comic play by Noël Coward, described by the author as "an improbable farce in three acts". [1]
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 ...
Judy Campbell (born Judith Mary Gamble; 31 May 1916 – 6 June 2004) [1] was an English film, television and stage actress, widely known to be Noël Coward's muse. [citation needed] Her daughter was the actress and singer Jane Birkin, her son the screenwriter and director Andrew Birkin, and among her grandchildren are the actresses Charlotte Gainsbourg and Lou Doillon, the late poet Anno ...
John Amos with his first wife Noel “Noni” Mickelson. John Amos played a husband numerous times on-screen throughout his five-decade-long career, and he also exchanged wedding vows in real life.