Noel Coward
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| 1899/12/16 | Noel Coward is born in Teddington, Middlesex, a suburb of London to Arthur Sabin Coward, a piano salesman, and Violet Agnes Coward, daughter of Henry Gordon Veitch, a captain in the Royal Navy. | Born | |||||
| 1910/00/00 | Noel Coward steals a coral necklace from a friend of his mother's, pawns it for five shillings, and buys "The Magic City" by E Nesbit at the Army and Navy Stores. | Life | |||||
| 1922/00/00 | It was in 1922 that I first met Nesbit, she was living near Dymchurch and I went boldly and called on her. Her husband, The Skipper, and she were living in a sort of Nissen hut at Jesson St Mary's, between Dymchurch and Littlestone. - Noel Coward | Visitor | Dymchurch | Kent | |||
| 1922/04/00 | Noel and his mother Violet discover a suitable cottage next door to the Star Inn pub at St Mary-in-the-Marsh in Kent. | Visitor | St Mary in the Marsh | Kent | |||
| 1922/04/00 | Noel Coward writes one of his first and most controversial plays, The Vortex, in a converted stable next to The Star Inn. The drawing room play is about a 1920s socialite and her decadent son. | Author | The Star Inn | St Mary in the Marsh | |||
| 1922/04/00 | Noel finds the yard at the Church Of St Mary The Virgin a very peaceful place to, prop himself up against a tombstone, and write "The Queen was in the Parlour". | Author | Church Of St Mary The Virgin, St Mary in the Marsh | St Mary in the Marsh | |||
| 1922/07/00 | Summer evenings, Noel and Violet ride up to Aldington knoll on bicycles and pause to admire the "darkening country ... lamps twinkling in cottage windows, bats swooping down from the high trees, and the lighthouse flashing all along the coast." | Visitor | Aldington | Kent | |||
| 1924/11/25 | Directed and co-starring Coward and featuring Lilian Braithwaite, The Vortex opens at the Everyman Theatre, Hampstead, London. | Actor, Director, Playwright | |||||
| 1927/00/00 | Noel Coward buys Goldenhurst Farm, set in 139 acres in Aldington overlooking Romney Marsh. He shared the C16 farmhouse with his lover Jack Wilson, his parents and Aunt Vida. The extended family had been living with him on Ebury Street, London. | Home | Goldenhurst Manor | Aldington | |||
| 1927/00/00 | Noel Coward buys Goldenhurst Farm, set in 139 acres in Aldington overlooking Romney Marsh. He shared the C16 farmhouse with his lover Jack Wilson, his parents and Aunt Vida. The extended family had been living with him on Ebury Street, London. | Home | Goldenhurst, The Old House | Aldington | |||
| 1929/00/00 | Noel Coward types the final draft of Private Lives at the Peninsula Hotel | Author | Private Lives | The Peninsula Hong Kong | Kowloon | ||
| 1931/01/27 | "Private Lives" opens on Broadway at the Times Square Theatre. Directed by Noel Coward, the comedy of manners in three acts stars Coward as Elyot, Gertrude Lawrence as Amanda and Laurence Olivier as Victor. | Actor | Private Lives | Times Square Theater, NYC | New York City | ||
| 1942/09/17 | "In Which We Serve" is released in the United Kingdom | Actor, Co-Director, Screenwriter | In Which We Serve (film) | ||||
| 1946/00/00 | "Brief Encounter " is released. | Producer | Brief Encounter | ||||
| 1969/06/05 | Directed by Peter Collinson, "The Italian Job", heist film starring Michael Caine, Noel Coward, Benny Hill, Raf Vallone, Tony Beckley, Rossano Brazzi and Maggie Blye opens at the Plaza Cinema in London. | Actor | The Italian Job (1969 film) | Paramount and Universal Cinemas, London | London |
2 Creative Works by Noel Coward »
| Title | Type | Association | Y/M/D | Moniker |
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| Title | Type | Association | Y/M/D | Moniker |
| Private Lives | Author | Play | 1929/00/00 | |
| In Which We Serve (film) | Actor, Co-Director, Screenwriter | Film | 1942/09/17 |
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