What Oscar nominated film was adapted from Noel Coward?s play Still Life?
"""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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"""
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"Still Life (2013 film) Still Life is a 2013 drama film written and directed by Uberto Pasolini. The film was presented at the 70th Venice Film Festival , where it won the award for Best Director in the category ""Orizzonti"". At the Reykjavik International Film Festival, ""Still Life"" received the top award (Golden Puffin) as well as the FIPRESCI Award. It also received the Black Pearl award (the highest award) at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival for ""its humanity, empathy, and grace in treating grief, solitude, and death""; and for his performance, Eddie Marsan won the Best British Actor award"
"in the United States, Latin America and South Africa. Easy Virtue (2008 film) Easy Virtue is a 2008 British romantic comedy film based on Noël Coward's play of the same name. The play was previously made into the silent movie ""Easy Virtue"" (1928) by Alfred Hitchcock. This adaptation is directed by Stephan Elliott, written by Elliott and Sheridan Jobbins, and stars Jessica Biel, Ben Barnes, Colin Firth and Kristin Scott Thomas. The score contains many Coward and jazz-age songs, some of which are sung or partially sung by the cast. ""Easy Virtue"" is a social comedy in which a glamorous"
"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"
"York Times"" best seller list for more than 59 weeks. There are over 2.6 million copies in print, and it has been translated into 37 languages. The book was later adapted for the stage by Christine Mary Dunford for the Lookingglass Theatre Company in Chicago. The play was produced from April 10-May 19, 2013. Neon Park Productions and Killer Films produced a film adaptation of ""Still Alice"" in 2014, starring Julianne Moore as Alice, and co-starring Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart, and Kate Bosworth. Moore won an Academy Award for Best Actress at the 87th Academy Awards for her role. ""Left"
"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"
"film version (1970), which earned her an Oscar nomination. Alexander's additional screen credits include ""All the President's Men"" (1976), ""Kramer vs. Kramer"" (1979), and ""Testament"" (1983), all of which earned her Oscar nods, ""Brubaker"" (1980), ""The Cider House Rules"" (1999), and ""Fur"" (2006), in which she played Gertrude Nemerov, mother of Diane Arbus, played in the film by Nicole Kidman. The play ""The Time of Your Life"" was revived in March 17, 1972, at the Huntington Hartford Theater in Los Angeles with Alexander, Henry Fonda, Gloria Grahame, Lewis J. Stadlen, Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Thompson, Strother Martin, Richard X. Slattery, and"
"The film received four Academy Award nominations for the 69th Academy Awards for Best Art Direction (Tim Harvey), Best Costume Design (Alexandra Byrne), Best Original Score (Patrick Doyle), and Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) (Kenneth Branagh). The film follows the plot of the original play, and is the first adaptation to have the complete original text. Aspects of the film's staging are based on Adrian Noble's recent Royal Shakespeare Company production of the play, in which Branagh had played the title role. The film uses a conflated text based on the 1623 First Folio, with additions from the Second Quarto and"
"the same cemetery, is attended by all the people John contacted throughout the film. Still Life (2013 film) Still Life is a 2013 drama film written and directed by Uberto Pasolini. The film was presented at the 70th Venice Film Festival , where it won the award for Best Director in the category ""Orizzonti"". At the Reykjavik International Film Festival, ""Still Life"" received the top award (Golden Puffin) as well as the FIPRESCI Award. It also received the Black Pearl award (the highest award) at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival for ""its humanity, empathy, and grace in treating grief, solitude,"
"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"
"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"
"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"
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"adaptation of the same name received critical acclaim and won the Academy Award for best picture. Cavalcade (play) Cavalcade is a play by Noël Coward with songs by Coward and others. It focuses on three decades in the life of the Marryots, a quintessential British family, and their servants, beginning in 1900 and ends on New Year's Eve in 1929 and is set against major historical events of the period, including the Relief of Mafeking; the death of Queen Victoria; the sinking of the Titanic; and the First World War. The popular songs at the time of each event were"
"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"
"starring theatre legend, Noël Coward. The plays were produced together, but on different nights in repertory: ""Nude With Violin"", and ""Present Laughter"". As described in biographies of Coward, this experience was unfortunately marred by a backstage contretemps, in which Traylor had to fend off the ferociously insistent lustful predations of the author and leading-man. This, as described, caused extreme anxiety to Traylor. In 2013, British playwright, James Martin Charlton, used this painful episode as the basis for a fictionalized theatrical dramatization, entitled ""Coward"". According to the press and the reviews of the production, the names of the characters, and the"
"Academy winning ‘The Imitation Game’ starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightly, Academy nominee ‘Wild’ starring Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern and ’Golden Globe nominated St. Vincent’ starring Bill Murray. Rudolf received his reward from Academy nominee Tom Berenger. Rudolf’s film also won the UT-Award for Best Film - the United Tribune is San Diego’s biggest newspaper with a circulation of 250 678 daily and 409 796 on Sundays. Recently the film won the Black Reel award for Outstanding World Cinema amongst fellow winners ‘Moonlight’ and ‘Fences’. In 2015 Rudolf won the BEST DIRECTOR AWARD at the Academy Accredited SUNSCREEN Film"
"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"
"Academy Award for Best Song and the Golden Globe. A film sequel, ""Rooster Cogburn"", was made in 1975, with Wayne reprising his role and Katharine Hepburn as an elderly spinster, Eula Goodnight, who teams up with him. The plot has been described as a rehash of the original ""True Grit"" with elements of the Bogart-Hepburn film ""The African Queen"". A further made-for-television sequel titled """" appeared in 1978, starring Warren Oates as Rooster Cogburn and Lisa Pelikan as Mattie Ross and featuring subsequent adventures of the valiant pair. In 2010, Joel and Ethan Coen directed another adaptation of the novel."
"movie to John and Larita's relationship in Cannes, and Elliott offering a twist on the suicide theme. Easy Virtue (play) Easy Virtue is a three-act play by Noël Coward. He wrote it in 1924 when he was 25 years old, and it is his 16th play. The play had a successful first run in New York in 1925 and then opened in London in 1926. It has been revived several times since and made into a film twice—in 1928 and 2008. In tone and style, ""Easy Virtue"" is essentially a drawing room melodrama, with flourishes of the signature wit which"
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