Greenwich Entertainment has acquired U.S. and Canadian distribution rights to “Mad About the Boy – The Noel Coward Story,” an intimate portrait of one of the 20th century’s greatest writers and wits.
Prominent stage, movie, and television actor. Dramatist. Novelist. Lyricist. Composer. Singer. Cabaret star. Theatre and film director. Celebrated raconteur. Insightful diarist. Noel Coward (1899-1973 ...
Altitude has picked up international sales and UK and Irish distribution rights to Mad About the Boy — The Noël Coward Story, a feature documentary about the life of Noël Coward from Barnaby Thompson ...
At some point Barnaby Thompson felt it necessary to formally list the playwright/songwriter as the first and sole cast member (so far) in his documentary Mad About the Boy – The Nöel Coward Story.
Thompson has been given access to archive materials, including Coward’s home movies, by his estate, and these provide a welcome garnish to the bare bones of his CV. See Coward propelling himself on a ...
In Noël Coward’s 1941 play Blithe Spirit—and in the film David Lean made of it in 1941, a delectable bonbon laced with the driest of vermouth—a writer toying with the occult as research for his next ...
The young Noël Coward was often disparaged as a boy who was clever and knew it. You have to admire his response: “How do they think I could be clever and not know it?” The logic and tone are ...
If Noël Coward wasn’t born with a raised eyebrow, he certainly gave every impression of viewing life with amused disdain from the crib onward. The British wit, playwright, composer, and all-around ...