b. 1936 to d. 2012 For thirty years Mr. Farley thrived in radio broadcasting as producer and announcer for NPR. His enthusiasm for all things Noel Coward guided him on a twenty year expedition to gather these interviews – a unique achievement that brings Noel alive in intimate detail.
"The incomparable Noel Coward loved to correspond with friends, enemies, the famous, the infamous, the talented and the powerful, including Virginia Woolf, Winston Churchill, Greta Garbo, Laurence Olivier, Katharine Hepburn, Marlene ...
Provides a portrait of the playwright and his family, including his most difficult professional period right after World War II
An English author on his first speaking tour in America is invited to spend a quiet and restful weekend at a new found friend's little place on Long Island Sound.
GEORGE: Don't you think I could ever do anything with my voice? LILY: Well, it might be useful in case of fire! GeoRGE: Oi! Skip it. Lily: Who was that lady I saw you walking down the street with the other morning? GEORGE: That wasn't a ...
The Art of Noël Coward
Given unprecedented access to the private papers and correspondence of Coward family members, compatriots, and numerous lovers, Samuel Johnson Prize-winning biographer Philip Hoare has produced an illuminating and sophisticated biography of ...
This Year of Grace; Bitter Sweet; Words and Music; Pacific 1860; Ace of Clubs; Sail Away; The Girl Who Came to Supper Noël Coward Arianne Johnson Quinn. Carl ( speaking softly ) Oh, my dear, dear love. ( Singing. ) ...
Noël Coward Barry Day. of the reasons that the Australian Minister sent me here was in order to talk about the Australian war effort in America. It therefore does not look as though I could return to England before April.
This is the first book-length work to draw extensively on unpublished archive material to document the composition and reception of some of Noël Coward's most significant plays.
They came to be known as " Gielgoodies . " Example . At lunch in the Ivy a man passes their table . “ Thank God he didn't stop , " says Gielgud , “ he's a bigger bore than Eddie Knoblock . ” His host was Eddie Knoblock .