Coward's best line ever was: "There you have it Simpson, never for an instant doubt the efficacy of prayer!" -- Around the World in Eighty Days - 1956. A great talent!!!
Dearest Noel.His was a unique talent.no one has come along scince his death to take his place.It says as much about the Industry,as it does about the computer age we live in.Noel would have used a mobile,he certainly sent telegrams!! Noel Coward needs to be read,sung,and watched,and studied.If students did this more,we might be saved some recent gaffs.If you are super clever,and you want to learn,watch Ben Stock,listen to his phrasing of all his Coward recordings,and if you want a master class in sentiment,at which Noel was a Master,listen to Mr Stock singing "Come the wild wild weather "from "Waiting in the wings ",It is pure gold.
@@philipleather3496 Thank you for that. I must admit I've never really explored his musical side much beyond "Mad Dogs and Englishmen", so I will research what you've quoted. Thanks.
I believe it’s more important to BELIEVE in the possibility of your dreams than anything else. Then everything you do becomes like small magnets pointed towards a larger one. Inevitably you become what you believe you CAN become.
Thanks for contributing this informative program. Might I suggest however that you upload it once again without the horizontal stretch? I am certain that people weren't all as overly plump as they appear here.
Typical of ITV of the time to get Bragg to say such biased twaddle as 'It attacked the shallowness of upper middle-class society'.. As if every single person inhabiting it was definitively shallow just by belonging to it, not just perhaps some of them (as there are in all classes, because in the end they are all people).
Noel Coward wrote the song "Mad dogs and Englishmen". It was always requested and he grew to hate it. He went on to sing it so fast that it lost its comedic message. It was a send-up of the British Empire, and one of the funniest songs about it. A pity that his ego betrayed the values he held..."Respect the theatre and your audience". He was a GIANT but he became just another show off.
i couldn't disagree more. he was always a bit of a show off- it was part of his personality and of his popularity. he knew his own value. the comedic message of the song was increased especially because of his lightning delivery. very very few people could sing it articulately at normal speed. i think your opinion about him is too harsh. he is a fascinating person thanks to his complexity: virtues and flaws.
Is it going to happen ever? Is Colin Firth the right man for the job? Wouldn't Hugh Grant be more suitable? Why haven't they got on with it? I mean they made one of Gertrude Laurence's life with Julie Andrews-STAR-which didn't do all that well by all accounts.
I love Noel Coward so much. He’s Marvelous!!
Coward's best line ever was: "There you have it Simpson, never for an instant doubt the efficacy of prayer!" -- Around the World in Eighty Days - 1956. A great talent!!!
Dearest Noel.His was a unique talent.no one has come along scince his death to take his place.It says as much about the Industry,as it does about the computer age we live in.Noel would have used a mobile,he certainly sent telegrams!! Noel Coward needs to be read,sung,and watched,and studied.If students did this more,we might be saved some recent gaffs.If you are super clever,and you want to learn,watch Ben Stock,listen to his phrasing of all his Coward recordings,and if you want a master class in sentiment,at which Noel was a Master,listen to Mr Stock singing "Come the wild wild weather "from "Waiting in the wings ",It is pure gold.
@@philipleather3496 Thank you for that. I must admit I've never really explored his musical side much beyond "Mad Dogs and Englishmen", so I will research what you've quoted. Thanks.
YAWN! ZZZzzz
I believe it’s more important to BELIEVE in the possibility of your dreams than anything else. Then everything you do becomes like small magnets pointed towards a larger one. Inevitably you become what you believe you CAN become.
noel coward was the ultimate all-around genius of all times after Chaplin
Coward was so insightful.
I'm more of a Keaton fan myself
No one was Noel's peer ! What the hell did Chaplin write ?
@@Corinthian44 Everyone of his films from 1914 to 1967!
@@gregglienna1442 And music!
Thanks for contributing this informative program. Might I suggest however that you upload it once again without the horizontal stretch? I am certain that people weren't all as overly plump as they appear here.
'You can't expect much spirit from a man with only one lung & a wife that suffers from diabetes ...'
- Brief Encounter
Lookin' at you, theatre teacher.
Has this happened yet, I can't wait.
MANFROMMARS46 I can. They will probably ruin it.
Typical of ITV of the time to get Bragg to say such biased twaddle as 'It attacked the shallowness of upper middle-class society'.. As if every single person inhabiting it was definitively shallow just by belonging to it, not just perhaps some of them (as there are in all classes, because in the end they are all people).
Baron Melvyn Bragg
What kind of forlorn miscreant would have volunteered to select Coward as a patronym.
Noel Coward wrote the song "Mad dogs and Englishmen". It was always requested and he grew to hate it. He went on to sing it so fast that it lost its comedic message. It was a send-up of the British Empire, and one of the funniest songs about it. A pity that his ego betrayed the values he held..."Respect the theatre and your audience". He was a GIANT but he became just another show off.
i couldn't disagree more. he was always a bit of a show off- it was part of his personality and of his popularity. he knew his own value. the comedic message of the song was increased especially because of his lightning delivery. very very few people could sing it articulately at normal speed.
i think your opinion about him is too harsh. he is a fascinating person thanks to his complexity: virtues and flaws.
You criticise him for being 'a show off'? Then you have entirely missed the point of Noel Coward!
Wtf? Did he just sniff coke?
Is it going to happen ever? Is Colin Firth the right man for the job? Wouldn't Hugh Grant be more suitable? Why haven't they got on with it? I mean they made one of Gertrude Laurence's life with Julie Andrews-STAR-which didn't do all that well by all accounts.
MANFROMMARS46 Well (& I adore Julie), no one could be further from Gertie than Julie Andrews. That’s why it bombed.
haha swedish subs
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Regarding Coward's Vortex plot, times have changed baby. If a man can take a women half his age, a woman can do it just as well! Lol