The Letters of Noel Coward

The Letters of Noel Coward
by Noel Coward

The Letters of Noel Coward
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Author: Noel Coward
Editor: Barry Day
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-11-13
ISBN: 0375423036
Number of pages: 800
Publisher: Knopf

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Book Review: Fascinating insight into an original mind
Summary: 5 Stars

Whether you are familiar with the works of Noel Coward on the most basic level or are a lifelong fan, The Letters of Noel Coward will provide you with an intense look at one of the greatest playwrights of all time.

Summary of The Letters of Noel Coward

A publishing event! The first and definitive collection of letters (most of them previously unpublished) both from and to the incomparable No?l Coward, a unique and irresistible portrait of a society and age-from the Blitz to the Ritz and beyond.

The range, charm, and vitality of his talents-he was a playwright, actor, composer, librettist, lyricist, director, painter, writer, cabaret singer, wit-brought him into close encounters, and often close friendship, with the great and the gifted. He knew everybody who was anybody in the theater and in the movies, in literature and in 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 (she wrote asking him to marry her; he wrote back saying he almost accepted) . . . Ian Fleming . . . W. Somerset Maugham . . . Marlene Dietrich (he advised her, "To hell with God damned 'L'Amour.' It always causes far more trouble than it is worth") . . . Tallulah Bankhead . . . Edith Sitwell . . . FDR . . . Gertrude Lawrence (in a cable about Private Lives: "Have written delightful new comedy stop good part for you stop wonderful one for me stop"), and many more.

There are letters about his productions of Bitter Sweet . . . Cavalcade . . . In Which We Serve . . . Brief Encounter . . . Private Lives, etc. . . . about his activities during World War II (he was a spy for the British government along with co-conspirator Cary Grant) . . . about the move to make him a knight that was endorsed in a personal letter from King George VI and blocked by Winston Churchill. Here 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, The Letters of No?l Coward gives us "Destiny's Tot" at his crackling best. An irresistible portrait of a time, of the man himself, and of the world he lived in and enchanted.

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