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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". [1] Coward attended a dance academy in London as a child, making his professional stage début at the age of eleven. As a teenager he was introduced into the high society in which most of his plays would be set.
Sep 27, 2024 · Noël Coward (born December 16, 1899, Teddington, near London, England—died March 26, 1973, St. Mary, Jamaica) was an English playwright, actor, and composer best known for his highly polished comedies of manners. Coward appeared professionally as an actor from the age of 12. Between acting engagements he wrote such light comedies as I’ll ...
Noël Coward. Writer: In Which We Serve. Noel Coward virtually invented the concept of Englishness for the 20th century. An astounding polymath - dramatist, actor, writer, composer, lyricist, painter, and wit -- he was defined by his Englishness as much as he defined it. He was indeed the first Brit pop star, the first ambassador of "cool Britannia." Even before his 1924 drugs-and-sex scandal of The Vortex, his fans were...
Coward had a long and glittering career, which took him from 1920s London all the way to Las Vegas (Credit: Noel Coward Archive Trust) Coward had a front-row seat for much of the 20th Century ...
The Noël Coward Archive is the largest literary-theatrical collection of its kind in the world and is the hub of an international network of archives, libraries, museums and galleries holding Coward-related materials. The Noël Coward Archive Trust’s mission is to make these essential materials from Coward’s life and work available for future generations in an accessible and sustainable way.
Tonight at 8:30 (1935/36) a cycle of ten one-act plays: We Were Dancing, The Astonished Heart, Red Peppers, Hands Across the Sea, Fumed Oak, Shadow Play, Ways and Means, Still Life, Family Album, Star Chamber. Present Laughter (1939) First Produced 1942. This Happy Breed (1939) First Produced 1943.
Noël Coward. Writer: In Which We Serve. Noel Coward virtually invented the concept of Englishness for the 20th century. An astounding polymath - dramatist, actor, writer, composer, lyricist, painter, and wit -- he was defined by his Englishness as much as he defined it. He was indeed the first Brit pop star, the first ambassador of "cool Britannia." Even before his 1924 drugs-and-sex scandal of The Vortex, his fans were...
Noël Coward (1960) - Aged 61. Born in 1899, Noël Coward was raised as a working class boy in the London suburb of Teddington. His father was a travelling piano salesman and the family finances were often poor. His mother later ran a boarding house on the outskirts of Belgravia, London. From a young age Coward possessed a natural intelligence ...
Songs. Coward wrote more than three hundred songs. The Noël Coward Society's website, drawing on performing statistics from the publishers and the Performing Rights Society, names "Mad About the Boy" (from Words and Music) as Coward's most popular song, followed, in order, by: "I'll See You Again" (Bitter Sweet)
May 23, 2023 · Although Coward, the boy from the south London suburb of Teddington who left school at the age of nine, was a student of the mores and manners of the British aristocracy, he had the grace and good ...
