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The Letters Of Noël Coward: Edited by Barry Day
The Letters Of Noël Coward: Edited by Barry Day
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The first and definitive collection of letters, most of them previously unpublished, both from and to Noël Coward; a unique and irresistible portrait of a society and age - from the Blitz to the Ritz and beyond. Playwright, actor, composer, librettist, lyricist, director, painter, writer, cabaret singer, wit - all of these talents brought him into close encounters and close friendship with the greats of his day. He knew everybody who was anybody in the theater, the movies, literature and politics, on both sides of the Atlantic. Among those at his “marvelous party”: George Bernard Shaw; T. E. Lawrence; Virginia Woolf; the Churchills; Daphne Du Maurier; Greta Garbo; Ian Fleming; W. Somerset Maugham; Marlene Dietrich; Tallulah Bankhead; Edith Sitwell; Gertrude Lawrence and many more.There are letters about his productions: Bitter Sweet,Cavalcade,In Which We Serve,Brief Encounter,Private Lives; and his activities during World War II. There are letters to and from his beloved mother, Violet, his longtime set and costume designer, Gladys Calthrop, his traveling companion from the 1930s on, Lord Amherst - and his business manager and onetime lover, Jack Wilson, in which he reveals his “secret heart.” Profoundly savvy, witty, loving, bitchy and often surprisingly moving, this is a real portrait of the times and the people who moved across the stage of life as it was then. With black and white photographs.
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Autobiography/Bio/Non-Fiction, Hardback; 2008 reprint of 1st edition; dust jacket has faint shelfwear and is not price clipped; tightly bound and clean withinShare
