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Noël Coward

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ComposerLyricistBook WriterDirector 1899–1973

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 called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise". 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. Coward achieved enduring success as a playwright, publishing more than 50 plays from his teens onwards. Many of his works, such as Hay Fever, Private Lives, Design for Living, Present Laughter, and Blithe Spirit, have remained in the regu…

Also credited on5 works

Bitter Sweet
High Spirits
Sail Away!
The Girl Who Came to Supper
Fallen Angels

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In the literature8 passages

  • Payn, Graham ed. (with Sheridan Morley), The Noël Coward Diaries , Macmillan: London 1982ebooks/Citron, Stephen/Musical From the Inside Out, The - Stephen Citron.txt
  • 116 Noël Coward immortalised that item of magic excitement in a series of nine short plays collectively entitled Tonight At 8.30.ebooks/Citron, Stephen/Musical From the Inside Out, The - Stephen Citron.txt
  • At this point, Grimes had had all of seven weeks of Broadway experience: three weeks in The Littlest Revue (1956) and a month in Noël Coward’s Look After Lulu (1959). She had come to acting a little late in life, for she had been a serious swimmer and came close to making the 1952 freestyle swimming Olympic team.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
  • My producing partner was Helen Bonfils, the richest woman in America. She owned the Denver Post and one-third of the land in Denver. We began with Noël Coward’s Sail Away . Helen put in $400,000, which was a lot of money for a musical then. But I saved her $100,000 by getting $50,000 from the Cunard Line for putting their name on the hats…ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
  • Songs: “Parisian Pierrot” (Noël Coward); “You Were Meant for Me” (Eubie Blake-Noble Sissle); “Limehouse Blues” (Philip Braham-Douglas Furber); “March With Me!” (Ivor Novello-Furber); “There’s Life in the Old Girl Yet” (Coward)ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Though celebrated for the brittle wit of his revue songs and sketches, as well as his plays, the multitalented Noël Coward was equally at home in the world of operetta. Indeed, no less than six of his eight book musicals were awash in old- fashioned sentiment, elegant period decor, and melodious, emotional ballads. The first of these, Bit…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt

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