Noël Coward

DDM wrote a play about her relationship with Ellen, September Tide, which disguised the lesbian nature of that relationship. In it Gertrude Lawrence (a performer celebrated for acting in Noël Coward 's plays) took...

EMD 's mother, Elizabeth Lydia Rosabelle (Bonham) de la Pasture , was a popular and prolific novelist whose work was admired by writers as far-ranging as Ivy Compton-Burnett and Evelyn Waugh . She wrote to...

Among CD 's many friends were Sybil Thorndike , Lewis Casson , Noël Coward , and Alfred Hitchcock . Coward valued her friendship and her perceptive criticism of his work very highly, and used her...

BC delighted in the company of the famous, beautiful, and charming. She frequented the Embassy Club , as did Michael Arlen , Cecil Beaton , Charlie Chaplin , and Gloria Vanderbilt , and she counted...

It was, however, the second son, Maurice , who proved their father's favourite, and his status affected his treatment of his younger sisters. Sylvia writes of him as a plump little boy with rosy cheeks...

MB was still working as a continuity girl (responsible for keeping tracks of props and details of sets and shooting) when she wrote this play. It was apparently first professionally staged (as opposed to productions...

Some of MB 's scriptwriting left almost no trace on the subsequent record of works produced communally. For instance, The Astonished Heart, released in 1950, is listed as a British film starring Noël Coward

The contributions they flagged with their own names on the title-page were called Strictly Personal and A—Zoo. A characteristic example of the former is a verse on Noël Coward to the tune of My...

As well as devoting steady time and effort to her writing, HB founded a theatre company which she called Rogues and Vagabonds Repertory Players , because she discovered the Welsh theatre culture and thought they...

Despite the talented cast, the play was not a success and closed within a month. Predictably, critics played games with its unfortunate title; EB later recalled such quips as the Last Joke and I...