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Noël Coward
[1899-1973]
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Noël Coward was generally known as a playwright and composer, but he also acted in, wrote,
produced, and-or directed many feature films, from 1918 to 1969.
"It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit."
"Time has convinced me of one thing: Television is for appearing on – not for looking at."
"Why must the show go on?"
"Work is much more fun than fun."
— Noël Coward [1899-1973]
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Noël Coward entry at Wikipedia
http://www.noelcoward.com/ Noël Coward Official Website
Noël Coward credits [100+ titles, 1918-2009] at Internet Movie Database
Noël Coward credits [since 1924] at the Internet Broadway Database
Noël Coward credits at Broadway World / London West End website
Noël Coward credits [1968-2004] at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
![Noël Coward won an Honorary Academy Award for his naval film drama "In Which We Serve" [1942]](images/oscar_sm.gif){kind=small} | Noël Coward won an Honorary Oscar® in 1942 |
a shared Argentinean Silver Condor Award for Best Foreign Film in 1944
knighthood in 1969
and a Special Tony Award® in 1970 'for his multiple and immortal contributions to the theatre'
Movies of Noël Coward
Noël Coward credits [100+ titles, 1918-2009] at Internet Movie Database
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"Hearts of The World" [1918] uncredited
"Across The Continent" [1922] uncredited
"Easy Virtue" [1928]
"Private Lives" [Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 1931]
"Bitter Sweet" [1933]
"Design For Living" [Paramount 1933]
"Cavalcade" [Twentieth Century-Fox 1933]
"Tonight Is Ours" [Paramount 1933]
based on the play "The Queen Was in the Parlour"
"The Scoundrel" [1935]
"Bitter Sweet" [Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 1940]
"We Were Dancing" [Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 1942] based on "Tonight at 8:30"
Coward won an Honorary Academy Award in 1943
for his naval drama "In Which We Serve"
"This Happy Breed" [Universal 1944]
"Blithe Spirit" [1945] as screenwriter)
in Technicolor, starring Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Margaret Rutherford & Kay Hammond
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIiCtxXtVXY 2.21
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crHcEmEgiA8 1.36.16
"Brief Encounter" [1945] based on "Still Life"
"The Astonished Heart" [Universal 1950]
"Tonight At Eight-Thirty" [1953]
based on "Ways and Means, Red Peppers, and Fumed Oak"
"Around The World In Eighty Days" [1956]
"Our Man In Havana" [1959]
"Surprise Package" [1960]
"Paris When It Sizzles" [Paramount April 1964]
 | Hired to write a movie, Holden instead lives it up in Paris; with just two days to deliver the script, he hires Hepburn as secretary to help. Directed by Richard Quine; script by George Axelrod; starring William Holden, Audrey Hepburn & Noel Coward
Paramount VHS [4/2001] for $14.95 Paramount widescreen DVD [4/2001] for $17.99 full credits from IMDb Partly-based on Julien Duvivier's "La Fête à Henriette" [France 1952] video not available; full credits from IMDb |
"Present Laughter" [1964 TV]
"The Vortex" [1964 TV]
"Bunny Lake Is Missing" [1965]
"Androcles and The Lion" [1967 TV]
"Pretty Polly" aka "A Matter of Innocence" [Universal 1967]
based on his short story "Pretty Polly Barlow"
"Boom!" [1968]
starring Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton
"Relative Values" [2000]
"Privatni Zivoti" [Yugoslavia 2003] /tt0865933/
"Easy Virtue" remake [2008] /tt0808244/
"Blithe Spirit" remake [British Lion/StudioCanal UK/IFC Films 2021] 
 | A British screenwriter on deadline decides to hold a seance to get rid of his writer's block; the medium summons the ghost of the writer's deceased first wife, causing all sorts of complications • Co-produced by Meg Leonard, Nick Moorcroft & others; directed by Edward Hall; co-written by Piers Ashworth, Meg Leonard & Nick Moorcroft; based on the play by Noël Coward; starring Dan Stevens, Isla Fisher, Judi Dench, Leslie Mann, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Michele Dotrice, Dave Johns, Emilia Fox, Zach Wyatt, Romina Zapata, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Adil Ray, Simon Kunz, Callie Cooke, Peter A. Rogers {as Alfred Hitchcock}, Delroy Atkinson, James Fleet, Issy van Randwyck, Tam Williams, Colin Stinton {as Cecil B. DeMille}, Stella Stocker {as Greta Garbo}, Jaymes Sygrove {as Clark Gable}, Georgina Rich {as Hedda Hopper}, Alan MacLean, Charlie Carter
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • full credits at IMDb • official I.F.C. movie homepage • movie entry at Wikipedia watch 12/2020 official trailer [2:40] at YouTube |
Music & Other Recordings
 | "100 Years of Cinema" Audio CD Box Set [1997]
Retro Music audio CD set [10/97] 40 tracks on 2 disks for $16.00 includes recordings excerpted from movies, sung by: Louis Armstrong ("Hello Dolly!"), Fred Astaire, Marlon Brando, James Cagney, Maurice Chevalier ("Thank Heaven For Little Girls"), Noel Coward ("Let's Do It"), Joan Crawford, Bing Crosby, Bette Davis, Doris Day, Gloria De Haven, Dolores Del Rio, Marlene Dietrich, Clark Gable, Judy Garland, Cary Grant, Jean Harlow ("Reckless"), Rita Hayworth, Bob Hope, Gene Kelly, Dorothy Lamour, Sophia Loren, Harpo Marx, Ann Miller, Robert Mitchum, Marilyn Monroe, Jack Nichol-son, Tyrone Power, Jimmy Stewart, Gloria Swanson, Rudolph Valentino ("Kashmiri Love Song") & Mae West – plus a 20-page booklet with rare photographs |
Stageplays, Other Media
Noël Coward credits [since 1924] at the Internet Broadway Database
Noël Coward credits at Broadway World / London West End website
Noël Coward credits [1968-2004] at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
Works About Noël Coward
"Mad Dogs and Englishmen" [BiteSize 2013?]
Announced 5/2012: Willy Holtzman has written the script for a drama starring Colin Firth as Noël Coward during
his two weeks at The Desert Inn in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1955; BiteSize is a joint venture of Mevio chair/CEO
Ron Bloom and producers Gene Kirkwood & Ross Elliot • not yet listed on IMDb
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Noël Coward credits [100+ titles, 1918-2009] at Internet Movie Database
Noël Coward entry at Wikipedia
http://www.noelcoward.com/ Noël Coward Official Website
http://www.noelcoward.org/
http://www.noelcoward.net/
http://www.noelcowardmusic.com/
http://www.firefly-jamaica.com/
http://www.noelcowardinnewyork.com/noel_coward.html
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