"1942, with a screenplay by Claudine West, Hans Rameau and George Froeschel. It was directed by Robert Z. Leonard. The film starred Norma Shearer and Melvyn Douglas, and also featured Florence Shirley, Lee Bowman and Lenore J. Coffee. Coward adapted ""Still Life"" for the screen as ""Brief Encounter"" in 1945. The film was remade in 1974 starring Richard Burton and Sophia Loren. In May 2009, Houston Grand Opera premiered an opera in two acts based on ""Brief Encounter"", with music by André Previn from a libretto by John Caird. For a 1952 film ""Meet Me Tonight"", directed by Anthony Pelissier,"
"She cries in his embrace. The film is based on Noël Coward's one-act play ""Still Life"" (1936), one of ten short plays in the cycle """", designed for Gertrude Lawrence and Coward himself, and to be performed in various combinations as triple bills. All scenes in ""Still Life"" are set in the refreshment room of a railway station (the fictional Milford Junction). As is common in films based on stage plays, the film depicts places only referred to in the play: Dr. Lynn's flat, Laura's home, a cinema, a restaurant and a branch of Boots the Chemist. In addition, a"
"ten short plays, presented in various permutations across three evenings. One of these plays, ""Still Life"", was expanded into the 1945 David Lean film ""Brief Encounter"". ""Tonight at 8:30"" was followed by a musical, ""Operette"" (1938), from which the most famous number is ""The Stately Homes of England"", and a revue entitled ""Set to Music"" (1938, a Broadway version of his 1932 London revue, ""Words and Music""). Coward's last pre-war plays were ""This Happy Breed"", a drama about a working-class family, and ""Present Laughter"", a comic self-caricature with an egomaniac actor as the central character. These were first performed in"
"Noël Coward on ""In Which We Serve"" (1942), and he later adapted several of Coward's plays into successful films. These films are ""This Happy Breed"" (1944), ""Blithe Spirit"" (1945) and ""Brief Encounter"" (1945) with Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard as quietly understated clandestine lovers, torn between their unpredictable passion and their respective orderly middle-class marriages in suburban England. The film shared Grand Prix honors at the 1946 Cannes film festival and garnered Lean his first Academy nominations for directing and screen adaptation, and Celia Johnson a nomination for Best Actress. It has since become a classic, one of the most"
"Still Life (play) Still Life is a short play by Noël Coward, one of ten that make up """", a cycle written to be performed across three evenings. The play depicts the love affair of Alec and Laura across a twelve-month period. The sadness of Alec and Laura's serious and secretive affair is contrasted throughout the play with the boisterous, uncomplicated relationship of Myrtle and Albert, two of the station staff. In the introduction to a published edition of the plays, Coward wrote, ""A short play, having a great advantage over a long one in that it can sustain a"
"Coward adapted ""Ways and Means"", ""Red Peppers"" and ""Fumed Oak"" (called ""Tonight at 8:30"" in the US). Coward himself played Christian Faber in a 1950 film of ""The Astonished Heart"" (also starring Celia Johnson and Margaret Leighton). Television adaptations of ""Red Peppers"" were released in 1937, 1938, 1958 and 1969. ""Still Life"" was given a television production in 1951. The NBC-TV anthology series ""Producers' Showcase"" debuted on 18 October 1954 with ""Shadow Play"", ""Still Life"" and ""Red Peppers"", produced and directed Otto Preminger, starring Ginger Rogers in all three; Martyn Green also starred in ""Red Peppers"". ""Hands Across the Sea"""
"his own view of things on the brute facts of existence,"" and Michael Billington of ""The Guardian"" wrote of Coward's influence on Harold Pinter. In 2004, Charles Spencer of ""The Daily Telegraph"" wrote, ""With ""Hay Fever"" and ""Private Lives"", ""Blithe Spirit"" strikes me as being one of Coward 's three indisputable comic masterpieces. [It is] the outrageous frivolity with which Coward treats mortality that makes the piece so bracing."" ""Blithe Spirit"" was made into a successful film in 1945, adapted by Coward and directed by David Lean. The cast included Rex Harrison as Charles, Constance Cummings as Ruth, Kay Hammond"
"with music by André Previn from a libretto by John Caird. Still Life (play) Still Life is a short play by Noël Coward, one of ten that make up """", a cycle written to be performed across three evenings. The play depicts the love affair of Alec and Laura across a twelve-month period. The sadness of Alec and Laura's serious and secretive affair is contrasted throughout the play with the boisterous, uncomplicated relationship of Myrtle and Albert, two of the station staff. In the introduction to a published edition of the plays, Coward wrote, ""A short play, having a great"
"Johnson. John Mills also plays Billy in the film. In 1989 BBC Radio 4 broadcast a radio adaptation of the play, starring John Moffatt, Rosemary Leach, Anna Cropper and Doris Hare. The audio play was released on CD in 2011, part of the Classic Radio Theatre series. This Happy Breed This Happy Breed is a play by Noël Coward. It was written in 1939 but, because of the outbreak of World War II, it was not staged until 1942, when it was performed on alternating nights with another Coward play, ""Present Laughter"". The two plays later alternated with Coward's ""Blithe"
"Brief Encounter Brief Encounter is a 1945 British romantic drama film directed by David Lean about British suburban life on the eve of World War 2, centring on Laura, a married woman with children, whose conventional life becomes increasingly complicated because of a chance meeting at a railway station with a married stranger, Alec. They fall in love, bringing about unexpected consequences. The film stars Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway and Joyce Carey. The screenplay is by Noël Coward, based on his 1936 one-act play ""Still Life"". The soundtrack prominently features the Piano Concerto No. 2 by Sergei Rachmaninoff,"
"long-run record for non-musical British plays of 1,997 performances. It also did well on Broadway later that year, running for 657 performances. Coward adapted the play for film in 1945, starring Rex Harrison, and directed a musical adaptation, ""High Spirits"", on Broadway in 1964. It was also adapted for television in the 1950s and 1960s and for radio. The play enjoyed several West End and Broadway revivals in the 1970s and 1980s and was revived again in London in 2004, 2011 and 2014. It returned to Broadway in February 2009. The title of the play is taken from Shelley's poem"
"some of the scenes too long, but added ""the author's skill is shown in each one, unabated and breaking fresh ground; the play obviously moved and excited the audience, and we must admit, once again, that Mr Coward remains one of the most remarkable men of the theatre of our time."" ""The Daily Express"" wrote, ""Mr Coward's Clapham cavalcade is perfectly acted. It is history dramatised in the back parlour and a most moving portrait of small people living greatly. A 1944 film adaptation, also called ""This Happy Breed"", was directed by David Lean and starred Robert Newton and Celia"
"first presented at the Manchester Opera House beginning on 15 October 1935, and a seventh play, ""Family Album"", was added on the subsequent provincial tour. ""Still Life"", however, was added for the London run, together with ""Ways and Means"" and ""Star Chamber"", the last of which was performed only once. The first London performance in the cycle was on 9 January 1936 at the Phoenix Theatre but ""Still Life"" did not premiere until May 1936. Coward directed all ten pieces, and each starred Coward and Gertrude Lawrence. Coward said that he wrote them as ""acting, singing, and dancing vehicles for"
"by Anthony Pelissier, Coward adapted ""Ways and Means"", ""Red Peppers"" and ""Fumed Oak"" (the film was called ""Tonight at 8:30"" in the US) In addition to the 1991 BBC series, television adaptations of ""Red Peppers"" were released in 1937, 1938, 1958 and 1969. In 1954, Otto Preminger directed a ""Producers' Showcase"" television production of ""Shadow Play"", ""Still Life"" and ""Red Peppers"" (featuring Martyn Green and Ginger Rogers). Red Peppers Red Peppers is a short comic play by Noël Coward, one of the ten plays that make up """", a cycle written to be performed across three evenings. In the introduction"
"Fever"", ""Private Lives"", ""Design for Living"", ""Present Laughter"" and ""Blithe Spirit"", have entered the regular theatre repertoire. His stage and film acting and directing career spanned six decades, and his cabaret performances were very popular in the 1950s and 1960s. Coward won an Academy Honorary Award in 1943 for his naval film drama ""In Which We Serve"". Many of Coward's plays were adapted for film. Coward was knighted in 1969 and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. A statue of Coward was unveiled by the Queen Mother in the foyer of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane"
"director Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger made ""The Red Shoes"" (1948), a film about ballet, which stood out from mainstream-genre films of the era. In 1945, David Lean directed ""Brief Encounter"", an adaptation of Noël Coward's play ""Still Life"", which observes a passionate love affair between an upper-class man and a middle-class woman amidst the social and economic issues that Britain faced at the time. In the 1950s, some of the well-known films with artistic sensibilities include ""La Strada"" (1954), a film about a young woman who is forced to go to work for a cruel and inhumane circus performer"
"still photographs. The entire play was produced for television in 1939, directed by Michel Saint-Denis and starring another future Oscar-winner, Peggy Ashcroft. The part of Sir Toby Belch was taken by a young George Devine. In 1957, another adaptation of the play was presented by NBC on U.S. television's ""Hallmark Hall of Fame"", with Maurice Evans recreating his performance as Malvolio. This was the first color version ever produced on TV. Dennis King, Rosemary Harris, and Frances Hyland co-starred. In 1966 there was an Australian TV version. Another version for UK television was produced in 1969, directed by John Sichel"
"and shot by Neame. All three partners—Havelock-Allan, Lean and Neame—collaborated on the script. The exact same combination of talents created the adaptation of Coward's comedy ""Blithe Spirit"", with Havelock-Allan and Neame sharing producing duties with Coward. The quartet then produced the classic ""Brief Encounter"", with Havelock-Allan and Neame sharing producing duties with Coward, with Coward helping write the script, an adaption of his 1936 one-act play ""Still Life"". Neame did not serve as director of photography on the film, or subsequent Cineguild productions. Instead, Robert Krasker was the lighting cameraman. ""Brief Encounter"" won the Palme d'Or at the 1946 Cannes"
"film versions of several Coward plays. Coward's most enduring work from the war years was the hugely successful black comedy ""Blithe Spirit"" (1941), about a novelist who researches the occult and hires a medium. A séance brings back the ghost of his first wife, causing havoc for the novelist and his second wife. With 1,997 consecutive performances, it broke box-office records for the run of a West End comedy, and was also produced on Broadway, where its original run was 650 performances. The play was adapted into a 1945 film, directed by Lean. Coward toured during 1942 in ""Blithe Spirit"","
"goes to console him at the pub, and after drinking a toast to Ros, they kiss. Their happiness is short-lived, however, as a German bomb strikes the pub, killing them both. Despite the tragedy, the night's performance goes on, and as Ros sings Judy's song, she determines to stay with the show. Tonight and Every Night Tonight and Every Night is a 1945 American musical film directed by Victor Saville and starring Rita Hayworth, Lee Bowman and Janet Blair. The film portrays wartime romance and tragedy in a London musical show, loosely modelled on the Windmill Theatre in Soho, that"
"during the war. In the aftermath of the war, Coward wrote an alternative reality play, ""Peace In Our Time"", depicting an England occupied by Nazi Germany. Coward's new plays after the war were moderately successful but failed to match the popularity of his pre-war hits. ""Relative Values"" (1951) addresses the culture clash between an aristocratic English family and a Hollywood actress with matrimonial ambitions; ""South Sea Bubble"" (1951) is a political comedy set in a British colony; ""Quadrille"" (1952) is a drama about Victorian love and elopement; and ""Nude with Violin"" (1956, starring John Gielgud in London and Coward in"
"cycle in 2009. In 1991, BBC television mounted productions of the individual plays with Joan Collins taking the Lawrence roles. A film adaptation was made of the play in 1949 with music by William Blezard. Coward himself played Christian Faber, and it also starred Celia Johnson and Margaret Leighton Christian Faber, a leading psychiatrist, falls passionately in love with Leonora Vail, an old friend of his wife. Leonora has wilfully led him on but is unprepared for the disastrous effect on him. Faber, more and more desperate, watches his own mind lose control of itself, and he finally kills himself."
"productions of parts of the cycle included Broadway revivals in 1948 (not including ""Still Life"") and 1967 (including ""Still Life"" ) and in 1981 at the Lyric Theatre in London (not including ""Still Life""). The Antaeus Company in Los Angeles revived all ten plays in October 2007. In 2009, the Shaw Festival revived the full cycle. ""Still Life"" was given a television production in 1951. In 1991, BBC television mounted productions of the individual plays starring Joan Collins. In most of the plays she took the Lawrence roles, but in ""Still Life"" she played Myrtle. In the refreshment room of"
"for Love"" (Congreve), ""Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream"" and ""The Duchess of Malfi"". In 1940, Gielgud directed ""The Beggar's Opera"", with Michael Redgrave as Macheath. In 1945, two Coward plays, ""Present Laughter"" and ""This Happy Breed"", alternated. They were followed by Wilde's ""Lady Windermere's Fan"" and ""The Importance of Being Earnest"" in 1948, and Tennessee Williams's ""The Glass Menagerie"" directed by Gielgud, starring Helen Hayes; and ""The Heiress"", an adaptation of Henry James's ""Washington Square"", directed by Gielgud and starring Ralph Richardson and Peggy Ashcroft, who was succeeded by Wendy Hiller (1949–50). In 1951–52 ""Waters of the Moon"" by N."
"Tonight and Every Night Tonight and Every Night is a 1945 American musical film directed by Victor Saville and starring Rita Hayworth, Lee Bowman and Janet Blair. The film portrays wartime romance and tragedy in a London musical show, loosely modelled on the Windmill Theatre in Soho, that determined not to miss a single performance during the Blitz. Hayworth plays an American showgirl who falls in love with an RAF pilot played by Bowman. The film was adapted from the play ""Heart of a City"" by Lesley Storm. It was used as a Technicolor vehicle for Rita Hayworth after her"
"Glatzer, who died from ALS several weeks later on March 10, 2015. Still Alice Still Alice is a 2014 American independent drama film written and directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland and based on Lisa Genova's bestselling 2007 novel of the same name. The film stars Julianne Moore as Alice Howland, a linguistics professor diagnosed with familial Alzheimer's disease shortly after her 50th birthday. Alec Baldwin plays her husband, John, and Kristen Stewart, Kate Bosworth and Hunter Parrish play her children, Lydia, Anna and Tom. Glatzer and Westmoreland were approached by Lex Lutzus and James Brown to adapt Genova's"
"making (and perhaps, into the bargain, Coward unmade), but as a period curiosity the National Film Archive and the Österreichische Filmmuseum [who found the copy] deserve gratitude for its resurrection."" Another film was made eighty years later by Ealing Studios, with co-writer Stephan Elliott directing, starring Jessica Biel, Ben Barnes, Colin Firth and Kristin Scott Thomas. This version follows the story more directly, and uses much of Coward's dialogue, although it has been fashioned more directly into the type of comedy for which Coward subsequently became famous. It differs from the play in that the character of Charles Burleigh is"
"2013. Memento Films and Killer Films produced a film adaptation of ""Still Alice,"" starring Julianne Moore in her Academy Award-winning role as Alice Howland, and co-starring Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart, and Kate Bosworth. Still Alice (novel) Still Alice is a 2007 novel by Lisa Genova, set in Boston. The novel is about a woman who suffers early-onset Alzheimer's disease. Alice Howland, a 50-year-old woman, is a cognitive psychology professor at Harvard and a world-renowned linguistics expert. She is married to an equally successful husband, and they have three grown children. The disease takes hold swiftly, and it changes Alice’s relationship"
"and all ends happily. Lady Windermere never learns that Mrs Erlynne is her mother. In his book ""My Life with Noël Coward"", Graham Payn reproduced the lyrics for two major numbers featuring Mrs Erlynne which had to be cut because Mary Ellis could not manage them: Mrs Erlynne's entrance in Act I and an aria in the first act finale. After the original run, there has been only one professional revival in the West End, a 1999 Coward centenary production at the Peacock Theatre, London, conducted by John McGlinn. Casts of the original production and the revival are given below."
"of his works, such as ""Hay Fever"", ""Private Lives"", ""Design for Living"", ""Present Laughter"" and ""Blithe Spirit"", have remained in the regular theatre repertoire. He composed hundreds of songs, in addition to well over a dozen musical theatre works (including the operetta ""Bitter Sweet"" and comic revues), screenplays, poetry, several volumes of short stories, the novel ""Pomp and Circumstance"", and a three-volume autobiography. Coward's stage and film acting and directing career spanned six decades, during which he starred in many of his own works. At the outbreak of the Second World War Coward volunteered for war work, running the British"
"It was also made into a play by the Kneehigh Theatre for performances at the National Theatre in London, premiering in May 2007. Explanatory notes Citations Bibliography A Matter of Life and Death (film) A Matter of Life and Death is a 1946 British fantasy-romance film written, produced and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, and set in England during the Second World War. The film stars David Niven, Roger Livesey, Raymond Massey, Kim Hunter and Marius Goring. The film was originally released in the United States under the title Stairway to Heaven, which derived from the film's most"
"VI"". This trilogy of plays came to the Old Vic in London, and from then on began to be far more regularly revived. For Birmingham Rep, he also played parts as diverse as Richard II, Alec in Coward's ""Still Life"" (the story better known as ""Brief Encounter"") and the Elephant in Obey's ""Noah"". He returned to the Old Vic for the 1958–59 season, as Julius Caesar among other parts. Later stage roles included The Headmaster in ""A Voyage Round My Father"", and Colonel Pickering in ""Pygmalion"" with Alec McCowen and Diana Rigg. In 1957, he married the actress Petra Davies."
"Still Alice Still Alice is a 2014 American independent drama film written and directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland and based on Lisa Genova's bestselling 2007 novel of the same name. The film stars Julianne Moore as Alice Howland, a linguistics professor diagnosed with familial Alzheimer's disease shortly after her 50th birthday. Alec Baldwin plays her husband, John, and Kristen Stewart, Kate Bosworth and Hunter Parrish play her children, Lydia, Anna and Tom. Glatzer and Westmoreland were approached by Lex Lutzus and James Brown to adapt Genova's novel in 2011, when Glatzer had just been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral"