Noel Coward, dramatist, actor, writer, composer, lyricist, painter, and wit wrote songs including “A Room With A View,” “I’ll See You Again,” “Mad Dogs and Englishmen,” and “Don’t Put Your Daughter On the Stage, Mrs. Worthington”. With the play “Private Lives,” (1930) he had became the highest earning author in the western world. With the onset of World War II he redefined the spirit of England in films such as “This Happy Breed” (1944), “In Which We Serve” (1942), “Blithe Spirit” (1945) and “Brief Encounter” (1945). His “Hay Fever” was the first work by a living author to be produced at the National Theatre. He was knighted in 1970, and died in his beloved Jamaica on 26 March 1973.

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