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Informationen zum Autor Noël Coward was born in 1899 in Teddington, Middlesex. He made his name as a playwright with The Vortex (1924), in which he also appeared. His numerous other successful plays included Fallen Angels (1925), Hay Fever (1925), Private Lives (1933), Design for Living (1933) and Blithe Spirit (1941). During the war he wrote screenplays such as Brief Encounter (1944) and In Which We Serve (1942). In the fifties he began a new career as a cabaret entertainer. He published volumes of verse and a novel (Pomp and Circumstance, 1960), two volumes of autobiography and four volumes of short stories: To Step Aside (1939), Star Quality (1951), Pretty Polly Barlow (1964) and Bon Voyage (1967). He was knighted in 1970 and died three years later in Jamaica. Klappentext 'A uniquely charming and enticing journey through a remarkable life.Coward's own record is made all the more delightful by the wise andhelpful interpolations of Barry Day, the soundest authority on theMaster 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is both perceptive and irresistible' Lord Richard AttenboroughWith virtually all the letters in this volume previously unpublished -this is a revealing new insight into the private life of a legendaryfigure. Coward's multi-faceted talent as an actor, writer, composer,producer and even as a war-time spy(!), brought him into close contactwith the great, the good and the merely ambitious in film, literatureand politics.With letters to and from the likes of: George BernardShaw, Virginia Woolf, Winston Churchill, Greta Garbo (she wrote askinghim to marry her), Marlene Dietriech, Ian Fleming, Graham Greene,Evelyn Waugh, Fred Astaire, Charlie Chaplin, FD Roosevelt, the QueenMother and many more, the picture that emerges is a series of vividsketches of Noel Coward's private relationships, and a re-examinationof the man himself. Deliciously insightful, witty, perfectly bitchy,wise, loving and often surprisingly moving, this extraordinarycollection gives us Coward at his crackling best. A sublime portrait ofa unique artist who made an indelible mark on the 20th century, fromthe Blitz to the Ritz and beyond. Zusammenfassung 'A uniquely charming and enticing journey through a remarkable life.' Stephen Fry With virtually all the letters in this volume previously unpublished - this is a revealing new insight into the private life of a legendary figure....
