"earlier about ""the dreams of a woman named Francesca,"" gave him the idea for the novella, which was completed in eleven days. After he had written ""Bridges"", Waller came to believe that he had based the character of Francesca Johnson on his wife, Georgia, whom Francesca physically resembles. According to Marc Eliot, Waller's novella is a modernization of the Noël Coward play ""Still Life"" (1934), which was adapted into David Lean's film ""Brief Encounter"" (1945). ""Still Life"" is about 'the desperation, guilt, and temptations of two married people who meet, fall in love, commit adultery, and then separate forever."" In"
"mood without technical creaking or over padding, deserves a better fate, and if, by careful writing, acting and producing I can do a little towards reinstating it in its rightful pride, I shall have achieved one of my more sentimental ambitions."" ""Still Life"" was first produced in London (1936) and later presented in New York (1936–1937) and Canada (1938). It has enjoyed several major revivals and in 1945 was adapted for film under the title ""Brief Encounter"". Like all the other plays in the cycle, it originally starred Gertrude Lawrence and Coward himself. Six of the plays in """" were"
"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,"
"production was a film adaptation of Coward's 1939 play This Happy Breed, which was produced by Coward, directed by Lean, and shot by Neame. All three partners — Havelock-Allan, Lean and Neame — collaborated on the script. The exact same combination of talents created the 1945 film adaptation of Coward's comedy ""Blithe Spirit"". 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"". The film won the Palme d'Or at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival while lead Celia"
"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"
"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"
"""The Times"" called it ""a serious and sympathetic study of humdrum people suddenly trapped by love"" and strongly praised Coward both for the play and his performance. After the successful production of the play, Coward expanded and adapted it into a full-length film script, ""Brief Encounter"" (1945), which was filmed by David Lean, with Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard in the roles originally played by Lawrence and Coward. A radio adaptation of the film was broadcast in 1955, and the following year Coward made a version for two voices which he recorded with Margaret Leighton. A French translation was given"
"in Paris in 1968 under the title ""Brève Recontre"" (presented in tandem with ""Nous Dansons""), and in the same year, along with ""Fumed Oak"", it formed the basis for a musical, not by Coward, called ""Mr. and Mrs"". The film was remade in 1974 starring Richard Burton and Sophia Loren. In 2008, a stage version of ""Brief Encounter"" was presented in London at the Haymarket Cinema and on tour by Kneehigh Theatre using a combination of the text of ""Still Life"" and the screenplay. In May 2009, Houston Grand Opera premiered an opera in two acts based on ""Brief Encounter"","
"Maida Vale's studio 6 (MV6). The script used was a 1947 adaptation for radio by Maurice Horspool, which had been in the BBC's ownership and had never been used or performed since then. In addition, there were two ""Theatre Guild On The Air"" broadcasts of ""Brief Encounter"" in its original form, ""Still Life"". The first version aired on April 6, 1947 over ABC with Ingrid Bergman, Sam Wanamaker and Peggy Wood. The second one was presented over NBC on November 13, 1949 and starred Helen Hayes and David Niven. The first adaptation of ""Brief Encounter"" which sourced both the screenplay"
"Hills and the Shakespeare Theater in Washington in Spring 2014 The production returned to the UK, opening at Birmingham Repertory Theatre (where the production originally premiered) and The Lowry, Salford in February 2018 before returning to the Haymarket Cinema in London from March to September 2018. In May 2009 Houston Grand Opera premiered a two-act opera ""Brief Encounter"" based on the story, with music by André Previn from a libretto by John Caird. Streaming audio 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"
"Joseph Arthur (playwright) Joseph Arthur (1848 – February 20, 1906) was an American playwright best known for his popular (though not critically acclaimed) melodramatic plays of the 1880s and 1890s, including ""The Still Alarm"" (1887) and ""Blue Jeans"" (1890). Arthur was born to John C. and Margaret Hill Smith in Centerville, Indiana in 1848 as Arthur Hill Smith. Most of his life was spent in New York City, where he arrived by the 1870s, but many of his plays took Indiana as their setting. His first successful play was ""The Still Alarm"", which opened in New York City in August"
"J. B. Edwards J. B. Edwards (born October 3, 1951) is an American playwright known for works including: ""William’s Last Chance"" (2001), ""A Family Reunion"" (2002), ""Una Reunion Familiar"" (2003), ""The Sanctuary"" (2003), ""Three Women Dating Henry"" (2004), ""The Day Einstein Died"" (2005), ""Einstein’s Secret Letters"" (2005), ""The Best of Everything"" (2006), ""A Delicate Matter"" (2007), ""Requeim for a Marriage"" (2008) and ""Sister Stories"" (2009). His works are a study of typical American lives in the late 20th century, and were influenced by the great American playwrights Arthur Miller and Edward Albee. Edwards' non-fiction books include: ""The Coming Cancer Breakthroughs"""
"where she runs a tea room, and still receives many letters relating to ""Brief Encounter"". Recently getting married again, Margaret and her new husband are the oldest newly weds in the UK currently. Margaret Barton Margaret Barton (born 27 May 1926 in Finsbury Park, London) is a British actress. She is best known for her role in the 1945 David Lean film ""Brief Encounter"" in which she played Beryl Walters, a girl who works in the railway station cafe. Barton began acting in the theatre at the age of 12. Because she was small for her age, during World War"
"as a paperback by Samuel French Ltd on 29 June 1956, priced at four shillings. It was first published in hardback in ""The Mousetrap and Other Plays"" by G. P. Putnam's Sons in 1978 () and in the UK by Harper Collins in 1993 (). Appointment with Death (play) Appointment with Death is a 1945 play by crime writer Agatha Christie. It is based on her 1938 novel of the same name. Christie is silent on the writing of both the book and the play in her autobiography. Her biography states that she started writing the play in a burst"
"Encounter"". Grimond noted that the advent of video allowed the film to be seen by a new audience, and that modern appraisals of the film had led to its being regarded as a classic. Celia Johnson Dame Celia Elizabeth Johnson, (18 December 1908 – 26 April 1982) was an English actress, known for her roles in the films ""In Which We Serve"" (1942), ""This Happy Breed"" (1944), ""Brief Encounter"" (1945) and ""The Captain's Paradise"" (1953). For ""Brief Encounter"", she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. A six-time BAFTA Award nominee, she won the BAFTA Award for Best"
"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"
"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"
"played by Eileen Joyce. ""Brief Encounter"" was met with wide praise from critics upon its release, and is today considered to be among Lean's finest works. It has been credited as an important early work of realist cinema for its small scale and the lack of big-name stars in its cast. In 1999, the British Film Institute voted ""Brief Encounter"" the second greatest British film of all time. In 2017 a poll of 150 actors, directors, writers, producers and critics for ""Time Out"" magazine saw it ranked the twelfth best British film ever. In the latter months of 1938, Laura"
"in 1946. The film shared the 1946 Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. At the 19th Academy Awards, Celia Johnson was nominated for Best Actress while David Lean was nominated for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay along with Anthony Havelock-Allan and Ronald Neame. ""Brief Encounter"" was acclaimed upon its release, although there were doubts that it would be ""generally popular"". It was voted one of the 10 greatest films ever made in two separate 1952 critics' polls. In 1999 the film was given the #2 slot on the British Film Institute's BFI Top 100 British films. Today, the"
"Mary Chase (playwright) Mary Coyle Chase (born Mary Agnes McDonough Coyle; 25 February 1906 – 20 October 1981) was an American journalist, playwright and children's novelist, known primarily for writing the Broadway play ""Harvey"", later adapted for film starring James Stewart. She wrote fourteen plays, two children's novels, and one screenplay, and worked seven years at the ""Rocky Mountain News"" as a journalist. Three of her plays were made into Hollywood films: ""Sorority House"" (1939), ""Harvey"" (1950), and ""Bernardine"" (1957). Born Mary Agnes McDonough Coyle in Denver, Colorado in 1906, Chase remained in Denver her entire life. She grew up"
"Brief Lives (play) Brief Lives is a British play about John Aubrey, a 17th-century Englishman who met and kept accounts of many of the famous men of his day, including René Descartes, Thomas Hobbes and Christopher Wren. It premiered in 1967 and became one of the most successful one person shows in history. Roy Dotrice played Aubrey in many productions. The play came out of an episode about Aubrey in ""Famous Gossips"" (1965), the BBC television series Garland made with Alan Bennett. The play was profiled in the William Goldman book """". The play originally opened at the Hampstead Theatre"
"Edward Albee Edward Franklin Albee III ( ; March 12, 1928 – September 16, 2016) was an American playwright known for works such as ""The Zoo Story"" (1958), ""The Sandbox"" (1959), ""Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"" (1962), and ""A Delicate Balance"" (1966). Three of his plays won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and two of his other works won the Tony Award for Best Play. His works are often considered as frank examinations of the modern condition. His early works reflect a mastery and Americanization of the Theatre of the Absurd that found its peak in works by European playwrights"
"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"
"of ""Brief Encounters"" in 2006. Aubrey was born in 1947 in Klagenfurt, Austria. His parents were Major Aubrey James Tregidgo and Edna May Tregidgo (née Boxall). He was educated at the Wolmer's Boys' School in Kingston, Jamaica, the Windsor Boys' School (Germany) and St. John's School (Singapore). He married Agnes Kristin Hallander, although the marriage ended in divorce. Aubrey trained for the stage at the Drama Centre London from 1967 to 1970. He is survived by his daughter , a French actress. Aubrey made his first professional stage appearance at the Wilmington Playhouse in March 1962 in the role of"
"Harold Pinter Harold Pinter (; 10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a Nobel Prize-winning British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. One of the most influential modern British dramatists, his writing career spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include ""The Birthday Party"" (1957), ""The Homecoming"" (1964), and ""Betrayal"" (1978), each of which he adapted for the screen. His screenplay adaptations of others' works include ""The Servant"" (1963), ""The Go-Between"" (1971), ""The French Lieutenant's Woman"" (1981), ""The Trial"" (1993), and ""Sleuth"" (2007). He also directed or acted in radio, stage, television, and film productions of his own and"
"Lady"" by Sheldon and Margaret Ayer Barnes. The film is still unavailable today because of this lawsuit. His life is detailed in ""The Man Who Lived Twice"" by Eric Wollencott Barnes. In this biography Barnes states that Sheldon was in love all his adult life with Doris Keane, the actress who starred in ""Romance"" in 1913. Before marrying the painter Willard Metcalf in 1911, Henrietta McCrea was in a sentimental relationship with Sheldon Edward Sheldon Edward Brewster (Ned) Sheldon (Chicago, Illinois, February 4, 1886 – April 1, 1946, New York City) was an American dramatist. His plays include ""Salvation Nell"""
"Laurier Lister George Laurier Lister, OBE (22 April 1907 – 30 September 1986) was an English theatre writer, actor, director and producer, best known for a series of revues in the late 1940s and 1950s. Laurier Lister was born in Sanderstead Croydon, Surrey. In the 1930s he acted in a number of plays in the West End, including ""Death Takes a Holiday"" (1931), ""The Long Christmas Dinner"" (1933), ""Twelfth Night"" (1933), ""Cabbages and Kings"" (1933), ""Hervey House"" (1934), ""A Kiss for Cinderella"" (1937), and ""People of Our Class"" (1938). He also wrote, with Hilda Vaughan, ""She Too Was Young"", a"
"Margaret Barton Margaret Barton (born 27 May 1926 in Finsbury Park, London) is a British actress. She is best known for her role in the 1945 David Lean film ""Brief Encounter"" in which she played Beryl Walters, a girl who works in the railway station cafe. Barton began acting in the theatre at the age of 12. Because she was small for her age, during World War 2 she became known for playing children and young people. At 17 she appeared in ""Pink String and Sealing Wax"" at the Duke of York's Theatre and remembered performing while doodlebugs flew overhead."
"Arthur Miller Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright, essayist, and a major figure in the twentieth-century American theater. Among his most popular plays are ""All My Sons"" (1947), ""Death of a Salesman"" (1949), ""The Crucible"" (1953) and ""A View from the Bridge"" (1955, revised 1956). He wrote several screenplays and was most noted for his work on ""The Misfits"" (1961). The drama ""Death of a Salesman"" has been numbered on the short list of finest American plays in the 20th century alongside Eugene O'Neill's ""Long Day's Journey into Night"" and Tennessee Williams's"
"I'm Still Alive (film) I'm Still Alive is a 1940 American drama film directed by Irving Reis and written by Edmund H. North. The film stars Kent Taylor, Linda Hayes, Howard Da Silva, Ralph Morgan and Don Dillaway. The film was released on September 20, 1940, by RKO Pictures. A spat on a Hollywood set between stuntman Steve Bennett and actress Laura Marley leads to the two of them falling in love and being married. Steve's work is dangerous and Laura persuades him to quit, but he has difficulty finding a different occupation. When youthful former colleague Tommy Briggs has"
"ends meet, barely. Again, other jobs became a necessity. Miklós László died in New York City in 1973 at the age of 69. His wife Florence died in 1987. Most famous of all the plays that became produced as a motion picture during this time was ""Illatszertár"", known in English as ""Parfumerie"". It had premiered at the Pest Theatre in Budapest in 1937, and shortly after László came to New York, the play was adapted as a movie script by Samson Raphaelson and became the Ernst Lubitsch motion picture ""The Shop Around the Corner"" (1940), with James Stewart, Frank Morgan,"
"Indiana University at Bloomington; the Mandeville Special Collections Library, Geisel Library, at the University of California, San Diego; the British Film Institute, in London; and the Margaret Herrick Library, Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Beverly Hills, California. Harold Pinter Harold Pinter (; 10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a Nobel Prize-winning British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. One of the most influential modern British dramatists, his writing career spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include ""The Birthday Party"" (1957), ""The Homecoming"" (1964), and ""Betrayal"" (1978), each of"
"on Garry Trudeau's Pulitzer Prize-winning comic strip ""Doonesbury"") on Broadway. In 1988 he provided the lyrics for the stage musical of the film ""Fame"". Later came ""Marat/Sade"" (1994), ""Bus Stop"" (1997), and ""Brecht on Brecht"" (2000, in New York City). From 1993 until his death from cancer in 2004, he was a professor of English and director of the drama program at Colgate University in upstate New York. He had two children, Maya and Julien, with his wife Claudia. Broadway Note: ""Fame"", the stage musical, was not presented on Broadway, but has been playing in London's West End since 1995."