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Coward was born in 1899 in Teddington, Middlesex, a south-western suburb of London.His parents were Arthur Sabin Coward (1856–1937), a piano salesman, and Violet Agnes Coward (1863–1954), daughter of Henry Gordon Veitch, a captain and surveyor in the Royal Navy.
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.
Private Lives is a 1930 comedy of manners in three acts by Noël Coward.It concerns a divorced couple who, while honeymooning with their new spouses, discover that they are staying in adjacent rooms at the same hotel.
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 eldest son of James Albery and Mary Moore, Irving Albery was a Conservative Party politician who served as Member of Parliament for Gravesend from 1924 to 1945. He married Gertrude Mary, (née Jones (1884–1967), daughter of playwright Henry Arthur Jones) and their daughter Jessica Albery was one of the first professional women architects in the UK. [4]
This Was a Man is a play in three acts by Noël Coward.It satirizes the adulterous affairs of English high society. Its main characters are Edward Churt, a successful modern portrait painter and his wife Carol whose "vivid personality is composed of a minimum of intellect and a maximum of sex."
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 ...
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.