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Author : Sheridan Morley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781911413677
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (136 download)
Download or read book A Talent to Amuse written by Sheridan Morley and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-05 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the writer and entertainer Noel Coward.
Author : Nancy Mitford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Talent to Annoy written by Nancy Mitford and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sheridan Morley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (22 download)
Download or read book A Talent to Amuse written by Sheridan Morley and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sheridan Morley
Publisher : Pavilion Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Talent to Amuse written by Sheridan Morley and published by Pavilion Books. This book was released on 1985 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biografie van de Britse toneelschrijver en acteur (1899-1973)
Author : Graham Payn
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781557832474
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (324 download)
Download or read book My Life with Noel Coward written by Graham Payn and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1996-10-31 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Other men made fabulous careers out of the opportunities Noel Coward declined. But Coward's inner compass charted him on his own course to greatness. And when he couldn't find the destination on his maps, he invented Samolo, his own South Sea island complete with its own indigenous rituals and customs. And of course, we revisit Coward's worlds constantly in revivals of his classic plays, Hay Fever, Private Lives, Tonight at 8:30, Design for Living and Blithe Spirit. This is the definitive memoir of the private Noel Coward by the only man with the compassionate insight and first-hand experience to write it. Graham Payn, star of many of Coward's shows, shared the Master's professional and private life for thirty years. When Coward kept the rest of the world at bay, Payn remained at his side as confidant and friend. No one else was as privy to Coward's doubts and dreams.
Author : Lina Beard
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)
Download or read book How to Amuse Yourself and Others: The American Girl's Handy Book written by Lina Beard and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Girl's Handy Book was one of the earliest works written primarily for girls' amusement and enjoyment. It introduced original and novel ideas to open new routes for enterprise and entertainment for girls. The main goal was to engrave upon the girls' minds that they all have talent and the ability to achieve more than what they think is possible. During the time of this book's publication, it was unusual to promote girls to be inventive. But the writer desired to awaken this creative side in them by giving detailed methods of new tasks and amusements, to put them on the road they could travel and explore alone. Anyone curious about knowing the initiatives taken for girls' empowerment in the olden days will find this work beneficial.
Author : David Cannadine
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019517156X
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book In Churchill's Shadow written by David Cannadine and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With In Churchill's Shadow, David Cannadine offers an intriguing look at ways in which perceptions of a glorious past have continued to haunt the British present, often crushing efforts to shake them off. The book centers on Churchill, a titanic figure whose influence spanned the century. Though he was the savior of modern Britain, Churchill was a creature of the Victorian age. Though he proclaimed he had not become Prime Minister to "preside over the liquidation of the British Empire," in effect he was doomed to do just that. And though he has gone down in history for his defiant orations during the crisis of World War II, Cannadine shows that for most of his career Churchill's love of rhetoric was his own worst enemy. Cannadine turns an equally insightful gaze on the institutions and individuals that embodied the image of Britain in this period: Gilbert & Sullivan, Ian Fleming, Noel Coward, the National Trust, and the Palace of Westminster itself, the home and symbol of Britain's parliamentary government. This superb volume offers a wry, sympathetic, yet penetrating look at how national identity evolved in the era of the waning of an empire.
Author : John Lahr
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472537963
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)
Download or read book Coward The Playwright written by John Lahr and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-01-08 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reissue in hardback of critic John Lahr's famous 1982 study of Noël Coward's plays"Noël Coward," said Terence Rattigan, "is simply a phenomenon, and one that is unlikely to occur ever again in theatre history." A phenomenon he certainly was, and it is part of John Lahr's purpose in this book to show how that phenomenon called "Noël Coward" was largely Coward's own careful creation. Lahr's penetrating critical study of Coward's drama investigates all the major and minor plays of "The Master". Private Lives, Design for Living and Hay Fever make a fascinating group of "Comedies of Bad Manners". Blithe Spirit and Relative Values raise the "Ghost in the Fun Machine". Lahr then goes on to explore the "politics of charm" oozing through The Vortex, Easy Virtue and Present Laughter. In all Coward's plays Lahr uncovers a coherent philosophy in which charm is both the subject of Coward's comedies and the trap which made his very public life a perpetual performance.
Author : Noël Coward
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 140814767X
Total Pages : 813 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)
Download or read book The Letters of Noël Coward written by Noël Coward and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-31 with total page 813 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A uniquely charming and enticing journey through a remarkable life. Coward's own record is made all the more delightful by the wise and helpful interpolations of Barry Day, the soundest authority on the Master that there is.' Stephen Fry 'Precise, witty, remarkably observed and gloriously English' Dame Judi Dench 'Barry Day's analysis is both perceptive and irresistible' Lord Richard Attenborough With virtually all the letters in this volume previously unpublished - this is a revealing new insight into the private life of a legendary figure. Coward's multi-faceted talent as an actor, writer, composer, producer and even as a war-time spy(!), brought him into close contact with the great, the good and the merely ambitious in film, literature and politics.With letters to and from the likes of: George Bernard Shaw, Virginia Woolf, Winston Churchill, Greta Garbo (she wrote asking him to marry her), Marlene Dietriech, Ian Fleming, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, Fred Astaire, Charlie Chaplin, FD Roosevelt, the Queen Mother and many more, the picture that emerges is a series of vivid sketches of Noel Coward's private relationships, and a re-examination of the man himself. Deliciously insightful, witty, perfectly bitchy, wise, loving and often surprisingly moving, this extraordinary collection gives us Coward at his crackling best. A sublime portrait of a unique artist who made an indelible mark on the 20th century, from the Blitz to the Ritz and beyond.
Author : Russell Jackson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350246085
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Noël Coward written by Russell Jackson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-21 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. It examines his working practices as a playwright, from manuscript to performance. This study argues that, while he did not embrace any of the more radical theatrical 'isms' of his time, Coward experimented with both form and content. He adapted the familiar 'well-made' formulas, while also emphasizing theatrical self-consciousness and an exploration of radical social and sexual relationships. After an overview of Coward's career and the reception of his plays, the work discusses selected texts from successive phases of Coward's career, including some unproduced or uncompleted work and perennially popular plays such as The Vortex, Hay Fever, Private Lives, Design for Living, Blithe Spirit and Present Laughter. This study also explores how, in the aftermaths of two world wars, as major changes in social and political circumstances suggested new approaches to dramaturgy, Coward's post-1945 work failed to achieve the same success he had enjoyed in earlier periods. The final chapter examines Coward's approach to his craft in response to the new theatrical and cultural environment, and the new freedom in the treatment of homosexuality represented by Suite in Three Keys and his final, uncompleted play, Age Cannot Wither.
Author : Sheridan Morley
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 139960306X
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (996 download)
Download or read book The Noel Coward Diaries written by Sheridan Morley and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2022-11-17 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A gold mine of gossip with a cast of thousands' GUARDIAN The unexpurgated diaries of one of the greatest, most talented, and wittily flamboyant characters of the 20th century - with a new introduction by Stephen Fry 'Compulsive reading' SUNDAY TIMES '19th February 1956. A A Milne has died. Lord Beaverbrook has not ... Larry is going to make a movie of The Sleeping Prince with Marilyn Monroe, which might conceivably drive him round the bend' '28th February 1960 Princess Margaret has announced her engagement to Tony Armstrong-Jones ... He looks quite pretty, but whether or not the marriage is entirely suitable remains to be seen.' Noel Coward was a renowned actor, dramatist, director - and star. His incredible zest, versatility and unrivalled wit are revealed in these diaries, with a cast of characters ranging from The Beatles to the Queen, Churchill to Marilyn Monroe. Touching, funny and revealing, THE NOEL COWARD DIARIES is a superb account of one of the greatest entertainers of all time.
Author : Alan Farley
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1481773259
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (817 download)
Download or read book SPEAKING OF NOEL COWARD written by Alan Farley and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Obituary of Mr. Farley, by Joshua Kosman, reprinted from the San Francisco chronicle of Oct. 23, 2012.
Author : Maria Meindl
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773586385
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Outside the Box written by Maria Meindl and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Years later, Maria took on the daunting task of sorting through Mona's mountain of papers to create an archive for the University of Toronto's Fisher Rare Book Library. The chaotic state of the boxes reflected Mona's flamboyant and demanding personality, yet they also drew an important picture of the life of a Canadian freelancer in the twentieth century. Mona had begun publishing poetry and features in newspapers in the 1920s and published three books of poetry in the 1940s. In the 1950s, at a time when many women were retreating from the public sphere, she had a successful radio career. Her later journals and letters recount, in agonizing detail, a downward spiral into self-doubt, poverty, and addiction. Maria soon discovered that the truth of Mona's life was even more fascinating than her stories. Outside the Box brings to life a thinly documented era in Canadian letters through the story of one passionate and conflicted woman. It also charts the journey of an unwilling archivist, coming to terms with family secrets, forgotten history, and the stories that are never told.
Author : Sheridan Morley
Publisher : Haus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781904341888
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (418 download)
Download or read book Noël Coward written by Sheridan Morley and published by Haus Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accessible and affordable illustrated biography
Author : Jack Poggi
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781557830319
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (33 download)
Download or read book The Monologue Workshop written by Jack Poggi and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1990 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indispensable ally for actors terrified by monolgue. Poggi's acclaimed technique combines improvisation and textual analysis to help beginners and pros alike improve solo performance.
Author : Ethan Mordden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190877952
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Pick a Pocket Or Two written by Ethan Mordden and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Anecdotal and evincing a strong point of view, [this] book covers not only the shows and their authors but the personalities as well--W.S. Gilbert trying out his stagings on a toy theatre, Ivor Novello going to jail for abusing wartime gas rationing during World War II, fabled producer C.B. Cochran coming to a most shocking demise for a man whose very name meant 'classy, carefree entertainment.' ... Mordden is the preeminent historian of the form, and his book will be required reading for readers of all walks, from the most casual of musical theater goers to musical theater buffs to students and scholars of the form"--
Author : Gene D. Phillips
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813138205
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Beyond the Epic written by Gene D. Phillips and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2006-11-24 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two-time Academy Award winner Sir David Lean (1908--1991) was one of the most prominent directors of the twentieth century, responsible for the classics The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), and Doctor Zhivago (1965). British-born Lean asserted himself in Hollywood as a major filmmaker with his epic storytelling and panoramic visions of history, but he started out as a talented film editor and director in Great Britain. As a result, he brought an art-house mentality to blockbuster films. Combining elements of biography and film criticism, Beyond the Epic: The Life and Films of David Lean uses screenplays and production histories to assess Lean's body of work. Author Gene D. Phillips interviews actors who worked with Lean and directors who knew him, and their comments reveal new details about the director's life and career. Phillips also explores Lean's lesser-studied films, such as The Passionate Friends (1949), Hobson's Choice (1954), and Summertime (1955). The result is an in-depth examination of the director in cultural, historical, and cinematic contexts. Lean's approach to filmmaking was far different than that of many of his contemporaries. He chose his films carefully and, as a result, directed only sixteen films in a period of more than forty years. Those films, however, have become some of the landmarks of motion-picture history. Lean is best known for his epics, but Phillips also focuses on Lean's successful adaptations of famous works of literature, including retellings of plays such as Brief Encounter (1945) and novels such as Great Expectations (1946), Oliver Twist (1948), and A Passage to India (1984). From expansive studies of war and strife to some of literature's greatest high comedies and domestic dramas, Lean imbued all of his films with his unique creative vision. Few directors can match Lean's ability to combine narrative sweep and psychological detail, and Phillips goes beyond Lean's epics to reveal this unifying characteristic in the director's body of work. Beyond the Epic is a vital assessment of a great director's artistic process and his place in the film industry.
