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Crew: Play Author
Actors: Jessica Biel, Ben Barnes, Colin Firth, Kristin Scott Thomas
Synopsis: An American woman (Jessica Biel) with a failed marriage under her belt and an Englishman (Ben Barnes) get swept up in a whirlwind romance in the South of France that ends with a shotgun wedding. The consequences come when they travel to Britain to face his family, headed by Colin Firth and Kristin Read More
Actors: Sophie Thompson, Edward Atterton, Jeanne Tripplehorn, William Baldwin
Synopsis: Adapted for the screen from the 1951 play that revived playwright Noel Coward's flagging reputation, Relative Values is another wit-laden addition to the English comedy of manners ouevre. Set sometime during the mid-20th century, the film opens on the French Riviera, where nebbish English Read More
Crew: Featured Music
Actors: Donald Pleasence, Frank Stallone, Sarah Maur-Thorp, Herbert Lom, Brenda Vaccaro
Synopsis: Ten Little Indians, the classic mystery by Agatha Christie, is again adapted, with enjoyable results. The setting of the now familiar mystery is moved to Africa, where the ten guests of a mysterious host are killed one by one as they travel on safari. None of the guests, played with great fun by a Read More
Actors: Birgitte Federspiel, Kirsten Rolffes, Holger Juul Hansen, Ebbe Rode
Synopsis: The aged actresses in this film have had their day in the sun, and now they have settled down to a life of genteel poverty at the Actors' Home, a retirement home for theatrical has-beens, funded by a stingy and very dictatorial charity organization. The grand old gals' in this film really want to Read More
Crew: Book Author
Synopsis: Based on a Noel Coward comedy, this is a story set in 1735 at a chateau outside of Paris. The Compte de Vriac is celebrating with some family friends the newly announced betrothal of his son when an unexpected guest arrives--the Marquise de Kestournel. She has been a mistress to the Compte in the Read More
Actors: Sophia Loren, Richard Burton, Jack Hedley, Rosemary Leach, Ann Firbank
Synopsis: Ignoring the old adage "If it ain't broke, don't fix it," producer Carlo Ponti mounted a TV remake of the 1945 British masterpiece Brief Encounter. Sophia Loren (Mrs. Ponti) stars as a bored married woman who embarks upon a brief romantic fling with an equally married man (Richard Burton). Read More
Actors: Peter Sellers, Ringo Starr, Isabel Jeans, Christopher Lee, Caroline Blakiston, Raquel Welch
Synopsis: This zany British comedy finds a homeless hobo (Ringo Starr) being adopted by the world's richest man, Sir Guy Grand (Peter Sellers). Setting sail on the luxury liner The Magic Christian, Sir Grand tests the limit of human avarice. With money to motivate the greedy, Laurence Harvey combines his Read More
Actors: Michael Caine, Noël Coward, Benny Hill, Raf Vallone, Tony Beckley
Synopsis: The quintessential British caper film of the 1960s, The Italian Job is a flashy, fast romp that chases a team of career criminals throughout one of the biggest international gold heists in history. Michael Caine is Charlie Croker, a stylish robber and skirt-chaser just out of British prison. Read More
Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Noël Coward, Joanna Shimkus, Michael Dunn
Synopsis: Boom is taken from the Tennessee Williams play The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore. Flora Goforth (Elizabeth Taylor) is a foul-mouthed, booze-swilling, pill-popping, middle-aged woman near death. She spends her time swearing at the servants and looks forward to the end of it all, until poet Read More
Crew: Screenwriter, Short Story Author
Actors: Hayley Mills, Trevor Howard, Shashi Kapoor, Brenda de Banzie, Dick Patterson
Synopsis: Polly (Hayley Mills) is a shy young girl on a world tour with her impossible aunt (Brenda de Banzie). In Singapore, the ladies are entertained by their Eurasian guide (Shashi Kapoor). Polly begins an affair with the seductive guide, and upon the death of her aunt she finally comes out of her shell Read More
Actors: Julie Andrews, Richard Crenna, Michael Craig, Daniel Massey, Robert Reed
Synopsis: Touted by 20th Century-Fox as a follow-up to their enormously successful The Sound of Music, Star! reteams that earlier film's leading lady Julie Andrews and director Robert Wise. Andrews plays legendary musical comedy star Gertrude Lawrence, while Daniel Massey appears as Lawrence's friend Read More
Actors: Carol Lynley, Keir Dullea, Laurence Olivier, Noël Coward, Martita Hunt
Synopsis: Based on the mystery novel by Marryam Modell (using the pseudonym Evelyn Piper), Bunny Lake Is Missing is a bizarre study in motherhood, kindness, enigma, and insanity. Ann Lake (Carol Lynley), an American freshly relocated to England, wishes to drop off her daughter Bunny for the girl's first day Read More
Actors: William Holden, Audrey Hepburn, Noël Coward, Gregoire Aslan, Raymond Bussières, Christian Duvallex
Synopsis: Richard Quine directs George Axelrod's acerbic script (adapted from Julien Duvivier's La Fête à Henriette) in this romantic comedy that reunites William Holden and Audrey Hepburn for the first time since 1954's Sabrina. Holden plays Richard Benson, a Hollywood screenwriter being pressured by movie Read More
Crew: Composer (Music Score)
Actors: Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Moray Watson
Synopsis: A rousing chorus of Noël Coward's "Stately Homes of England" is heard as the opening titles of The Grass Is Greener fade into several stock shots of those stately homes. One of these mansions is owned by British earl Victor Rhyall (Cary Grant), who opens his home to American tourists in order to Read More
Actors: Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Maureen O'Hara, Ernie Kovacs, Noël Coward
Synopsis: Graham Greene wrote this witty comedy inspired by Cold War paranoia. Jim Wormald (Alec Guiness) is an Englishman selling vacuum cleaners in Cuba on the cusp of the revolution. Hawthorne (Noel Coward), a British intelligence agent, is looking for information on Cuban affairs and recruits Jim to act Read More
Actors: Yul Brynner, Bill Nagy, Mitzi Gaynor, Barry Foster
Synopsis: This is an unimpressive spy-comedy from director Stanley Donen who inserts his specialty, a small song-and-dance number, into the odd proceedings. Gangster Nico March (Yul Brynner) has been ordered out of the United States because of his unsavory activities and back to the Greek island from whence Read More
Actors: David Niven, Cantinflas, Robert Newton, Shirley MacLaine, Charles Boyer
Synopsis: Razzle-dazzle showman Michael Todd hocked everything he had to make this spectacular presentation of Jules Verne's 1872 novel Around the World in 80 Days, the second film to be lensed in the wide-screen Todd-AO production. Nearly as fascinating as the finished product are the many in-production Read More
Synopsis: A music performance video from October 22, 1955, with two Broadway stars. Mary Martin sings from "South Pacific" and "Leave It to Me." Noel Coward sings his own song "Mad Dogs and Englishmen." The two conclude with a duet. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Crew: Play Author, Screenwriter
Crew: Play Author, Screenwriter, Songwriter
Actors: Kay Walsh, Ted Ray, Martita Hunt, Frank Pettingell, Bill Fraser
Synopsis: Meet Me Tonight was the American title for the British-filmed Tonight at 8:30, adapted from the Noel Coward stage production of the same name. Several rotating playlets were presented in the original Tonight at 8:30, most of them starring Coward and Gertrude Lawrence. The film version utilizes Read More
Crew: Composer (Music Score), Play Author, Screenwriter
Actors: Noël Coward, Celia Johnson, Margaret Leighton, Graham Payn, Joyce Carey
Synopsis: With his previous collaborator David Lean busy on other own projects, Noel Coward had to rely on director Terence Fisher to bring his The Astonished Heart to the screen. Fisher and his stars--Celia Johnson, Margaret Leighton, and Coward himself--vividly convey the playwright's brittle Read More
Crew: Play Author, Producer, Screenwriter
Actors: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey, Cyril Raymond
Synopsis: Based on Noël Coward's play "Still Life," Brief Encounter is a romantic, bittersweet drama about two married people who meet by chance in a London railway station and carry on an intense love affair. Sentimental yet down-to-earth and set in pre-World War II England, the film follows British Read More
Actors: Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond, Margaret Rutherford, Hugh Wakefield
Synopsis: The Noel Coward/David Lean combination which turned out such dramas as Brief Encounter and This Happy Breed sets its sights on the viewer's funny bone with Blithe Spirit. Rex Harrison plays a novelist, newly married to straight-laced Constance Cummings. Via a seance, Harrison accidentally summons Read More
Crew: Composer (Music Score), Play Author, Producer
Actors: Robert Newton, Celia Johnson, John Mills, Kay Walsh, Stanley Holloway
Synopsis: With This Happy Breed, playwright Noel Coward hoped to glorify the British working class in the same manner that he'd celebrated the "higher orders" in Cavalcade. The film begins just after World War I. Middle-class Londoner Robert Newton hopes to improve his family's lot by moving them into a Read More
Actors: Norma Shearer, Melvyn Douglas, Gail Patrick, Lee Bowman, Marjorie Main
Synopsis: Strange but true: Norma Shearer turned down the title role in Mrs. Miniver to star instead in the insignificant trifle We Were Dancing. Loosely based on two Noel Coward playlets originally presented as part of the omnibus production Tonight at 8:30, the story concerns the romance between socialite Read More
Crew: Composer (Music Score), Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Actors: Noël Coward, John Mills, Bernard Miles, Celia Johnson, Joyce Carey
Synopsis: Few morale-boosting wartime films have retained their power and entertainment value as emphatically as Noël Coward's In Which We Serve. To witness Coward's sober, no-nonsense direction (in collaboration with his co-director/editor, David Lean) and to watch his straightforward portrayal of navy Read More
Crew: Composer (Music Score), From Musical by, Play Author, Songwriter
Actors: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, George Sanders, Ian Hunter, Felix Bressart
Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1933, Noel Coward's sentimental operetta Bitter Sweet was transformed by MGM seven years later into a Jeanette MacDonald-Nelson Eddy vehicle, complete with Technicolor. Set in late 19th century Vienna, the story focuses on the romance between music teacher Carl Linden (Eddy) Read More
Actors: Gaby Morlay, André Luguet, Henri Guisol, Marie Glory
Synopsis: Though its title translates literally as The Terrible Lovers, this French romantic comedy is actual an adaptation of Noel Coward's urbane and witty Private Lives (previously filmed by MGM in 1931). Gaby Morlay and Andre Luget star as sophisticated married couple Annette and Daniel, who remain in Read More
Actors: Noël Coward, Julie Haydon, Stanley Ridges, Martha Sleeper, Hope Williams
Synopsis: This modern "Flying Dutchman" story stars actor/playwright Noel Coward as a class-A heel. Coward uses his position as a powerful publisher to break as many hearts as is humanly possible. When Coward does his usual hatchet job on poet Julie Haydon, she plants a curse on his head, praying that he'll Read More
Actors: Fredric March, Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins, Edward Everett Horton, Franklin Pangborn
Synopsis: Design for Living was based on the stage comedy by Noel Coward, though little of his dialogue actually made it to the screen. Playwright Fredric March and artist Gary Cooper both fall in love with Miriam Hopkins, an American living in Paris. Both men love the girl, and the girl can't make up her Read More
Crew: From Musical by, Screenwriter
Actors: Anna Neagle, Fernand Gravey, Esme Percy, Clifford Heatherley, Ivy St. Helier
Synopsis: The first of two film versions of Noel Coward's operetta, 1933's Bitter Sweet stars British favorite Anna Neagle and continental star Fernand Graavey (who spelled his name "Gravet" in Hollywood). The wisp of a plot finds Victorian Neagle persuading Graavey to march her to the altar. A brilliant Read More
Actors: Claudette Colbert, Fredric March, Alison Skipworth, Paul Cavanagh, Arthur Byron
Actors: Diana Wynyard, Clive Brook, Una O'Connor, Herbert Mundin, Ursula Jeans, Beryl Mercer
Synopsis: The only Academy Award winning picture for Fox Studios (in its pre-20th Century-Fox era), Cavalcade is a stately film adaptation of the pageant-like stage hit by Noel Coward. The film concentrates on the years 1901 through 1933, as seen through the eyes of an upper-class British family and its Read More
Actors: Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Reginald Denny, Una Merkel, Jean Hersholt
Synopsis: Amanda (Norma Shearer) and Elyot (Robert Montgomery) -- a witty, sophisticated married couple -- divorce and marry other mates. Amanda chooses stuffy Victor (Reginald Denny), while Elyot's selection is the tiresome Sibyl (Una Merkel). Coincidentally, both newlywed couples honeymoon at the same Read More
Actors: Lili Damita, Paul Richter, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Harry Leidtke
Synopsis: Forbidden Love is a vehicle for Lily Damita, perhaps best known to film fans as the tempestuous first wife of actor Errol Flynn. Damita is here cast as Princess Nadya, who before marrying into royalty was the sweetheart of commoner Sabien Paschal (Paul Richter). Years after the end of the affair Read More
Actors: Ivor Novello, Simeon Stuart, Frances Doble
Synopsis: The Vortex is based on the Noel Coward play of the same name, with the wry cynicism of the original supplanted by treacly sentiment. Composer Nicky Lancaster (Ivor Novello) falls in love with lady novelist Bunty Mainwaring (Frances Doble). Our hero is soon shocked to discover that Bunty's cast-off Read More
Actors: Lillian Gish, Robert Harron, Dorothy Gish, George Fawcett, Erich Von Stroheim
Synopsis: On the heels of his masterpiece, Intolerance, which dramatized the futility of war born out of prejudice, director D.W. Griffith shifted gears for this film. Intolerance had proven a financial disaster for Griffith, so he signed with producer Adolph Zukor to release his next film. He came upon the Read More
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