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"Don't Let's Be Beastly To The Germans" is a satirical song composed by Noël Coward in 1943 during World War II.Although popular when performed live (British prime minister Winston Churchill demanded several encores when he first heard it) the humour did not translate well over the wireless and caused some fuss, leading the BBC to ban the song.
In order to do research, Coward visited the naval base in Plymouth, where Michael Redgrave, with whom he was in a relationship at the time, was stationed. He also visited Portsmouth and the Home Fleet at Scapa Flow, where he sailed on HMS Nigeria. [8] Coward spent the final months of 1941 drafting a screenplay.
Coward in 1972. Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 1899 – 26 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".
Coward wrote "London Pride" in the spring of 1941, during the Blitz.According to his own account, he was sitting on a seat on a platform in Paddington station, watching Londoners going about their business quite unfazed by the broken glass scattered around from the station's roof damaged by the previous night's bombing: in a moment of patriotic pride, he said that suddenly he recalled an old ...
Future Indefinite is a 1954 autobiography by Noël Coward focusing on Coward's time in World War Two. [1] [2] [3] Coward was working on it in 1945 but the book took a number of years to be complete. [4] It followed Present Indicative. A third volume, Past Conditional, was never completed. [5]
As a major new biography about Noel Coward is published half a century on from his death, Martin Chilton looks back on the life of the trailblazing playwright with ‘a talent to amuse’
Surprisingly, Coward's social satire is less potent than his straightforward political anger." [22] The Sunday Times praised both the production and the play: I would never have guessed that this 80-minute vitriolic anti-war fantasy, written in 1930, was by Noel Coward.
Coward completed the playscript for This Happy Breed (as well as that for Present Laughter) in 1939, in the months before World War II.The producer Binkie Beaumont originally wanted to stage Present Laughter on its own, but Coward insisted that, given the political situation at the time, it should be played alternately with the more sombre This Happy Breed.