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English playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer
- Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 1899 – 26 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".
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Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 1899 – 26 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".
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Noël Coward (born December 16, 1899, Teddington, near London, England—died March 26, 1973, St. Mary, Jamaica) was an English playwright, actor, and composer best known for his highly polished comedies of manners. Coward appeared professionally as an actor from the age of 12.
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Born in 1899, he was young enough to be called up for World War One, and to not only be one of the Bright Young Things – the nickname given to the wild-living, press-friendly socialites who dazzled...
- He Was Poor. Born in a suburb of London on December 16, 1899, Noël Coward earned his name for a rather obvious reason—his birthday was so close to Christmas.
- He Was A Thief. Growing up, Coward was a talented mischief-maker—and became quite adept at thieving. He later described himself as "a brazen, odious little prodigy".
- His Brother Passed. It's rather shocking that Coward's parents denied him the smallpox vaccine, especially when three years prior, Coward's brother Russell had horrifically lost his life to meningitis.
- He Made His Move. By the age of seven, Coward had already done some amateur concerts—but there were bigger things in store for him. Luckily his mother mirrored his ambition and sent the boy to a dance academy in London.
The life of Noël Coward. Born in 1899, Noël Coward was raised as a working class boy in the London suburb of Teddington. His father was a travelling piano salesman and the family finances were often poor. His mother later ran a boarding house on the outskirts of Belgravia, London.
Mar 27, 2023 · ‘I’m an enormously talented man’: The life of born show-off Noel Coward. As a major new biography about Noel Coward is published half a century on from his death, Martin Chilton looks back...
Eugene O’Neill, hands down. But if you were a Brit—and, particularly, a Londoner—back then, the 1920s belonged to Noël Coward. Novels by Woolf and Waugh and Forster came and went, but Coward the playwright? He was ubiquitous.
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