Brittle? Mannered? Affected? NO. This was at bottom a lovely man with a great and tender heart capable of the greatest degree of subtlety. Funny? Well, yes, but capable too of the geatest poignancy. He often had us smiling through tears with a lump in our throats. A very great artist, indeed! But I imagine he'd hate me for saying it out loud.
Oh come back, Noel...just for half an hour and put the world to rights. What a total breath of spring you remain in this hateful, lack lustre world of mediocrity we now find ourselves in.
Noel coward was on the radio quite a lot when I was a high school student. We kids entertained each other singing the lyrics of his complicated, clever patter songs-a tour de force for kids or anybody, but noboy told us we couldn't do it. I still know every word of "Mad About the Boy." (Well, I'm 92.)
“Mad Dogs and Englishmen.” My sister and I used to spout it to each other daily. We also loved Cole Porter’s “You’re the Top” Coward is forever the most sophisticated man of his time in “Blithe Spirit,” He also wrote and produced “In which we Serve.”” Our brilliant Irving Berlin created the loving prayer “God Bless America.”
I think it's a privilege for those who care to watch them that there are recordings like this for future generations to see, I will be 60 next year and I am contented that these precious pieces of film are now immortalised digitally and know that there will always be youngsters that will be interested to watch them.
@@annbush1826 I love those songs. Noël Coward, Cole Porter, George and Ira Gershwin, (especially the music from “An American in Paris”), and a bit of Ivor Novello. I like hearing Ella Fitzgerald sing Porter’s songbook as well. She was a very talented singer. All those old performers and more are so witty and timeless. I wish more of that talent persisted today.
Sometimes you are disappointed when someone you loved in a film turns-out to be very different themselves. Noel Coward never disappoints! In all respects he is the equal of any character he has ever played and is more interesting than some of them.
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Given the time in history, Mr Coward had the theatre world at his feet - he was greatly revered by most of the 'great' theatre luminaries for a long time. His plays, done correctly, are great comedic and social commentaries. It can seem period, and some must be played accordingly, but many remain quite contemporary. What he says about acting is from a lifetime of experience at dizzying heights, and extraordinarily insightful. As far as 'being affected', the great Stella Adler was in England and out shopping. A clerk asked where in London he should have the packages delivered. 'New York', she replied. 'Oh!', said the clerk, 'I thought you were British!' 'No,' replied Ms Adler, 'just affected.' Those people had wit and style. And that ain't easily done...
Jonathan Harris (Dr. Smith of Lost In Space), himself a New Yorker of Jewish extraction, later used that story to great effect on one of his many fans.
As a child, I saw him in an obscure film called Bunny Lake is Missing, playing a character part. I had no idea I was watching a theatrical legend. I didn't know who he was. I think the film is on TH-cam.
His great quality was to demand that things be given their true value. He had no patience with laziness, dishonesty or self-indulgence, so he could seem blunt and demanding. However, it is never helpful or respectful to accommodate mediocrity when people are capable of great things.
When speaking about Apple cart by GB Shaw, Noel and the interviewer are in a slight disagreement, but they are handling it all so elegantly, cordially and professionally, that it's hardly noticeable. So unlike nowadays....
In Which We Serve is a favorite of mine, I have it on DVD. It was interesting to hear him say it was one of the most difficult projects/roles he ever did. He pulled it off with aplomb.
He also loathed what passed for entertainment in his own time - he had a real go at the Angry Young Men and the Kitchen Sink style plays of the 1950s. The backlash was so great he actually recanted and tried to repair his relationship with John Osborne, but alas to no avail.
It is not politically correct to say so I am afraid but I qualified as a social worker in Australia in 1976 and at no time have I done anything but act. My study of coward even in my family upbringing and during social work training gave me incredible resilience from.roles in social activism to palliative care. Despite the naive view about feelings being necessary to work with people Noel coward demonstrates the aloof science of theatre
Rupert von Trapp - I could not agree more! I met him when I was a child and too young to know that I was meeting a celebration of life and wit. The latter is dead and the former comes to all of us, but Noel made even this a celebration.
The tapped r or the trilled r is here. I'm an elocution teacher in England and I teach it to children who were saying I'm 'alwhite' and now they can say I'm 'alright!'
@@judithcressey1682gotten is only correct after “have” e.g. “I have eaten” vs “I ate”; “I have sung” vs “I sang”; it applies to “I have gotten” vs “I got.” This is because “got” is past tense but “gotten” is the past participle, so both are correct depending on the situation. Americans tend to only say “got” which is poor grammar.
Watching this interview I'm sure Michael Caine MUST have watched it a number of times before he did that interview with Michael Parkinson on how an actor must perform on camera.
He always did very well in Londons West End Theatre but not too well in the provinces. His musicals were not as good as Ivor Novello who was more popular.
Actually many of his plays had their first run in Manchester, where audiences were hard to impress but appreciated wit. Coward liked the place, for various reasons, not all theatrical. See Anthony Burgess's autobiography, Little Wilson and Big God. The main character in Burgess's great novel Earthly Powers is a blend of Somerset Maugham and Noël Coward.
Just been re-watching " Present Laughter ", on TH-cam. Recommended ! 😊 Donald Sinden, Gwen Watford, Dinah Sheridan. With Julian Fellows ( now known for Downton Abbey), as the creepy "Mr. Maul ", from Uckfield (" it's near Lewes..." )😊📖 🇬🇧📖⭐💙🦉😊🇬🇧
5 mins 10 sec's, Noel mentioned Lunt and Fontanne, the famous acting duo in USA. There is a substantial Wikipedia entry about them😊 . They had a place called "Ten Chimneys" , now a treasured centre ref ' drama.😊⭐📖 🦉Carol Burnett and Harvey Korman did several " mickey-takes" ( I'm sure made affectionately) with parody theatre stars, " Lunt and Fontaine ", in the Carol Burnett Show " .🇬🇧😊⭐🦉 🇬🇧🌈💙⭐😊📖🇬🇧
Damn, if only he were alive in this century, I bet he would have surfed 21st century life in the same expressive direct and honest manner as he did back then.
The farewell speech in In Which We Serve kills me every time. Brilliant uplifting emotional and only serves to yell out why didn't the Master do more serious drama?
He's an okay actor, no John Barrymore et al.. as Orson Welles said about Barrymore, there is none like him the best and had that certain thing. I think Coward is better as a raconteur.
Noel Coward always produced the best put down lines. Speaking of one of his friend Ivor Novello's earliest appearences in a play he said ' He was always very bad ...... even then!' A wicked sense of humour.
Very interesting. Touching and very funny at times. Though I must admit, I'm hard of hearing, so I put the close captioning on, and one of my biggest laughs was when the CC in the 'In Which We Serve ' scene rendered "Come a little closer" as "I'm a little pest". Clearly the automated CC is not well in synch with Noel's accent.
Born on his birthday, i was introduced to his genius at age 11. Noel changed my life in the theatre and I have never forgotten him and his edge on humanity. . . .
A lesson in acting that every actor should see. His overwhelming self importance can be off putting, but don't forget that he has been there and done it. Thanks for making it available.
i've came up with a simple answer: they probably have a more developed feminine side- greater sensitivity, intuition, they can express more feeling and dedication. i think . being a female, i'm always amazed at how brilliantly written Noel Coward's female characters are (especially Amanda- Private Lives ), they feel and react the same way as i or any other woman would in a certain situation. Noel understood women very well, which thing -anybody knows - men usually can't.
Wonder why so many aren't.. Honestly, the way some go on about it nowadays you'd think Homosexuality was some sort of transcendent existence, it's just one man putting his front pipe up another's back pipe for a sexual thrill..
@@naly202 What a load of sexist tosh. Only women have filigree sensibilities? Only women have more feeling and dedication? Absolute piffle .. Was Bach a toilet trader? Did Shakespeare mince around like a 17thC Quentin Crisp? No...
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@@Lytton333 No big deal, but your sexual orientation should not be advertised in Gay parades...... As it were a BADGE OF HONOR...
IF only contemporary actors could take on board this man's advice. He was much better at knowing how others should act than he was able to do himself. He was far TOO theatrical both on stage and in film. He was fundamentally false, probably because of the closet gay syndrome imposed upon him by the mores of his generation. Sad.
Coward was never arrested. And he was never in no closet, though he negotiated his public image with care. And he pushed it as far as possible. The 1935 musical Jubilee had a character modeled on him, called Eric Dare. He was always under attack for the lavender element in his work. Never bothered to wive it.
@@alexkije Coward never had any problems with the law, perhaps, paradoxically, because he never tried to hide his homosexuality. You may be thinking of John Gielguid.
Brittle? Mannered? Affected? NO. This was at bottom a lovely man with a great and tender heart capable of the greatest degree of subtlety. Funny? Well, yes, but capable too of the geatest poignancy. He often had us smiling through tears with a lump in our throats. A very great artist, indeed! But I imagine he'd hate me for saying it out loud.
Oh come back, Noel...just for half an hour and put the world to rights. What a total breath of spring you remain in this hateful, lack lustre world of mediocrity we now find ourselves in.
Well put.
Camp Freddie, everyone is bent. In today's world.
rupert von trapp So damn true.
Lockdown 2020. What would Noël say?
Agree. Please come back and put the world right.
Noel coward was on the radio quite a lot when I was a high school student.
We kids entertained each other singing the lyrics of his complicated, clever patter songs-a tour de force for kids or anybody, but noboy told us we couldn't do it. I still know every word of "Mad About the Boy." (Well, I'm 92.)
Mad about the Boy is a classic; good for you for having learned it and still remembering the words!!! :)
@@bobbbxxx And even more apropos now!
“Mad Dogs and Englishmen.” My sister and I used to spout it to each other daily. We also loved Cole Porter’s “You’re the Top”
Coward is forever the most sophisticated man of his time in “Blithe Spirit,”
He also wrote and produced “In which we Serve.””
Our brilliant Irving Berlin created the loving prayer “God Bless America.”
I think it's a privilege for those who care to watch them that there are recordings like this for future generations to see, I will be 60 next year and I am contented that these precious pieces of film are now immortalised digitally and know that there will always be youngsters that will be interested to watch them.
@@annbush1826 I love those songs. Noël Coward, Cole Porter, George and Ira Gershwin, (especially the music from “An American in Paris”), and a bit of Ivor Novello. I like hearing Ella Fitzgerald sing Porter’s songbook as well. She was a very talented singer. All those old performers and more are so witty and timeless. I wish more of that talent persisted today.
Amazing interview on the art of acting. The best I've seen so far. Many thanks for uploading.
Sometimes you are disappointed when someone you loved in a film turns-out to be very different themselves. Noel Coward never disappoints! In all respects he is the equal of any character he has ever played and is more interesting than some of them.
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blood sweat and tears - the greatest..Spanish theater people love mr Coward no actors like the old Brittish actors
Given the time in history, Mr Coward had the theatre world at his feet - he was greatly revered by most of the 'great' theatre luminaries for a long time. His plays, done correctly, are great comedic and social commentaries. It can seem period, and some must be played accordingly, but many remain quite contemporary. What he says about acting is from a lifetime of experience at dizzying heights, and extraordinarily insightful. As far as 'being affected', the great Stella Adler was in England and out shopping. A clerk asked where in London he should have the packages delivered. 'New York', she replied. 'Oh!', said the clerk, 'I thought you were British!' 'No,' replied Ms Adler, 'just affected.' Those people had wit and style. And that ain't easily done...
bodder777 Lovely story about Stella Adler, thank you.
Jonathan Harris (Dr. Smith of Lost In Space), himself a New Yorker of Jewish extraction, later used that story to great effect on one of his many fans.
Wonder what Noel would have made of Love Island and The Only Way is Essex
Reminds you how inspiring Coward was/is
Pearl after pearl of wisdom. Wonderful stuff!
Really, I could listen to him for hours. Delightful.
As a child, I saw him in an obscure film called Bunny Lake is Missing, playing a character part. I had no idea I was watching a theatrical legend. I didn't know who he was. I think the film is on TH-cam.
Ya he played a pervert with a wipp
My friend Keri Dullea starred in that film .
He seems a much kinder and more generous man that his reputation would have you believe.
His great quality was to demand that things be given their true value. He had no patience with laziness, dishonesty or self-indulgence, so he could seem blunt and demanding. However, it is never helpful or respectful to accommodate mediocrity when people are capable of great things.
@@credenza1 Extremely well put. And true :-)
When speaking about Apple cart by GB Shaw, Noel and the interviewer are in a slight disagreement, but they are handling it all so elegantly, cordially and professionally, that it's hardly noticeable.
So unlike nowadays....
In Which We Serve is a favorite of mine, I have it on DVD. It was interesting to hear him say it was one of the most difficult projects/roles he ever did. He pulled it off with aplomb.
Having David Lean as Assistant Director and Guy Green as 1st Cameraman didn't hurt...
I could listen to this man for weeks, brilliant actor, playwright, and director. The shame he would feel for todays drivel we are fed.
Wonderful interview. HOW Noël would have loathed what passes for entertainment today... 😭 and how I miss the civility of his time.
He also loathed what passed for entertainment in his own time - he had a real go at the Angry Young Men and the Kitchen Sink style plays of the 1950s. The backlash was so great he actually recanted and tried to repair his relationship with John Osborne, but alas to no avail.
Marvelous interview 👌 grateful for utube 🍻 cheers
Yeah but he was a screaming pillow biter wasn’t he … not very gentlemanly that … should have been locked up for life shouldn’t he … (cough)
What an enjoyable program! Thank you so much for posting.
It is not politically correct to say so I am afraid but I qualified as a social worker in Australia in 1976 and at no time have I done anything but act. My study of coward even in my family upbringing and during social work training gave me incredible resilience from.roles in social activism to palliative care. Despite the naive view about feelings being necessary to work with people Noel coward demonstrates the aloof science of theatre
Rupert von Trapp - I could not agree more! I met him when I was a child and too young to know that I was meeting a celebration of life and wit. The latter is dead and the former comes to all of us, but Noel made even this a celebration.
Wonderful.
The tapped r or the trilled r is here. I'm an elocution teacher in England and I teach it to children who were saying I'm 'alwhite' and now they can say I'm 'alright!'
Congratulations. Good luck teaching them that "dove" is a bird and rhymes with "love" and is not the past tense of dive :-)
Good luck too in teaching them that 'gotten' is a three letter word.
@@judithcressey1682 Mmmm, thank you. Gotten is an old slang word from England I think. It lives on in the US.
@@judithcressey1682gotten is only correct after “have” e.g. “I have eaten” vs “I ate”; “I have sung” vs “I sang”; it applies to “I have gotten” vs “I got.” This is because “got” is past tense but “gotten” is the past participle, so both are correct depending on the situation. Americans tend to only say “got” which is poor grammar.
Did you ever wish you could meet someone…. I’d love to have a chat with Noel.
Nice speaking voice
12:51 He's so cute in that picture, not nearly half as bad as he thinks he is.
Noel was irresistibly talented actor ...a very classy witty intelligent guy ...thanks for this interview...👏👏👏👏👏👏
Great upload, and a refreshing perspective on the craft of acting. Thanks!
Total professional the like of which is lacking today.
hey thank you for the upload. i think we have lost a lot of talent especially here in the colonies
Watching this interview I'm sure Michael Caine MUST have watched it a number of times before he did that interview with Michael Parkinson on how an actor must perform on camera.
He always did very well in Londons West End Theatre but not too well in the provinces. His musicals were not as good as Ivor Novello who was more popular.
Novello was talented but did not write or compose anything as wonderful as 'Bittersweet'
Actually many of his plays had their first run in Manchester, where audiences were hard to impress but appreciated wit. Coward liked the place, for various reasons, not all theatrical. See Anthony Burgess's autobiography, Little Wilson and Big God. The main character in Burgess's great novel Earthly Powers is a blend of Somerset Maugham and Noël Coward.
1965 Interview
Just been re-watching
" Present Laughter ",
on TH-cam.
Recommended ! 😊
Donald Sinden,
Gwen Watford,
Dinah Sheridan.
With Julian Fellows
( now known for
Downton Abbey),
as the creepy
"Mr. Maul ", from
Uckfield (" it's near
Lewes..." )😊📖
🇬🇧📖⭐💙🦉😊🇬🇧
Icon.
5 mins 10 sec's,
Noel mentioned
Lunt and Fontanne,
the famous acting
duo in USA. There is
a substantial Wikipedia
entry about them😊 .
They had a place called
"Ten Chimneys" , now a
treasured centre ref '
drama.😊⭐📖
🦉Carol Burnett and
Harvey Korman did
several " mickey-takes"
( I'm sure made
affectionately)
with parody theatre stars,
" Lunt and Fontaine ",
in the Carol Burnett
Show " .🇬🇧😊⭐🦉
🇬🇧🌈💙⭐😊📖🇬🇧
Found him mannered as a young man but he improved in relation to the older I became.
Damn, if only he were alive in this century, I bet he would have surfed 21st century life in the same expressive direct and honest manner as he did back then.
Gold dust
The farewell speech in In Which We Serve kills me every time. Brilliant uplifting emotional and only serves to yell out why didn't the Master do more serious drama?
So interesting.. thanks for sharing 💛
Splendid! Thanks for posting!
Unique talent.
Oh I love you Noel :D
What joy to see Mr coward
Mesmerizing to listen to and watch!
thank you
1966 TV Special - interviewer is English actor/director Michael Macowan.
He's an okay actor, no John Barrymore et al.. as Orson Welles said about Barrymore, there is none like him the best and had that certain thing. I think Coward is better as a raconteur.
for posting this, 'i can no other answer make but thanks, thanks and thanks again.'
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FANTASTIC!
Noel made gay - cool, sharp, classy. Not camp, rude, feminine.
So, with which stereotype do you identify?
Or did you plan to switch from B to A?
Fascinating.
Noel Coward always produced the best put down lines. Speaking of one of his friend Ivor Novello's earliest appearences in a play he said ' He was always very bad ...... even then!' A wicked sense of humour.
Brilliant actor!
He was not what you would call a naturalistic actor. He was very affected.
Wonderful.
im on 1965 of the diaries
Very interesting. Touching and very funny at times. Though I must admit, I'm hard of hearing, so I put the close captioning on, and one of my biggest laughs was when the CC in the 'In Which We Serve ' scene rendered "Come a little closer" as "I'm a little pest". Clearly the automated CC is not well in synch with Noel's accent.
Tis is incredible thank you! I had no idea this existed.
A Great Talent ,A Hreat Vvoice, A great Wit. Orson Welles of his time, Thank fully without the Tragic end.
Quite nice actually.
Born on his birthday, i was introduced to his genius at age 11. Noel changed my life in the theatre and I have never forgotten him and his edge on humanity.
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A lesson in acting that every actor should see. His overwhelming self importance can be off putting, but don't forget that he has been there and done it. Thanks for making it available.
I think you have to remember that Noel Coward in an interview situation is a character too. He is always acting. It is part of his make-up.
the actor on goodnight sweetheart nails his voice
43 Slovenly dress is a slovenly actor
great voice
When was this recorded?
I wonder why so many great actors are gay: Noel Coward, Derek Jacobi, Simon Callow, Mc Kellen
i've came up with a simple answer: they probably have a more developed feminine side- greater sensitivity, intuition, they can express more feeling and dedication. i think .
being a female, i'm always amazed at how brilliantly written Noel Coward's female characters are (especially Amanda- Private Lives ), they feel and react the same way as i or any other woman would in a certain situation. Noel understood women very well, which thing -anybody knows - men usually can't.
they're all hams......Robert Mitchum is better than Robert de Niro........
Wonder why so many aren't..
Honestly, the way some go on about it nowadays you'd think Homosexuality was some sort of transcendent existence, it's just one man putting his front pipe up another's back pipe for a sexual thrill..
@@naly202 What a load of sexist tosh.
Only women have filigree sensibilities? Only women have more feeling and dedication? Absolute piffle .. Was Bach a toilet trader? Did Shakespeare mince around like a 17thC Quentin Crisp? No...
@@Lytton333 No big deal, but your sexual orientation should not be advertised in Gay parades...... As it were a BADGE OF HONOR...
What year is this?
2022
на руках,
других ангелов,
Молитва эта мытаря
Она взята
:
...Что ж твой сон гласит?
Скажи нам, что такое?..
, а язык мягкий,
IF only contemporary actors could take on board this man's advice. He was much better at knowing how others should act than he was able to do himself. He was far TOO theatrical both on stage and in film. He was fundamentally false, probably because of the closet gay syndrome imposed upon him by the mores of his generation. Sad.
HA! You are full of shit. He was not much closeted. He came onto other actors and total strangers. Arrested for public toilet solicitations.
Coward was never arrested. And he was never in no closet, though he negotiated his public image with care. And he pushed it as far as possible. The 1935 musical Jubilee had a character modeled on him, called Eric Dare. He was always under attack for the lavender element in his work. Never bothered to wive it.
@@alexkije Coward never had any problems with the law, perhaps, paradoxically, because he never tried to hide his homosexuality. You may be thinking of John Gielguid.
i can't believe Lawrence Olivier (allegedly) slept with this man.
They were both younger and prettier in those days.
He did not. Noel Coward said not. Noel Coward said Olivier was not interested in men sexually.
He couldn't act at all.
Good song writer though.
A touch ham.
watch bunny lake, he's terrific.listen to either of his cabaret performances. Watch TV's together with music. He is wonderful
Did yu see his naval officer piece/ No, you must have commented without watching.
Brilliant in The Italian Job.