Brief Encounter | film by Lean [1945] | Britannica.com film by Lean [1945] A Christmas Carol Brief Encounter, British film drama, released in 1945, that pivots on the subject of forbidden love, as set against the strictures of suburban British life. The film, based on Noël Coward ’s play Still Life , was one of director David Lean ’s first great successes. Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard in Brief Encounter (1945), directed by … © Eagle-Lion Films At an English train station, middle-class housewife Laura Jesson (played by Celia Johnson) meets the handsome married doctor Alec Harvey ( Trevor Howard ). A friendly conversation over tea leads to a series of arranged meetings, and a platonic relationship gradually develops. Eventually, however, the two realize they are in love with each other and become agonized by guilt over their feelings. After a thwarted attempt at a private rendezvous, their future as a couple is decided when Alec announces he has accepted a job in South Africa . The low-key production was filmed in London during the dreary aftermath of the post-World War II years and found favour both at home and abroad.

Brief Encounter is an emotionally shattering film directed with great sensitivity by Lean, who carefully handled the rising tension over whether Laura and Alec’s relationship would turn physical. The film neither sentimentalizes nor vilifies the pair’s spouses, conveying the idea that one could be in love with one person but still fall in love with another. The acclaimed sound track features Sergey Rachmaninoff ’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor. Production notes and credits Brief Encounter (1945) - The Criterion Collection The Criterion Collection Spine #76 After a chance meeting on a train platform, a married doctor (Trevor Howard) and a suburban housewife (Celia Johnson) begin a muted but passionate, and ultimately doomed, love affair. With its evocatively fog-enshrouded setting, swooning Rachmaninoff score, and pair of remarkable performances (Johnson was nominated for an Oscar), this film, directed by David Lean and based on Noël Coward’s play Still Life deftly explores the thrill, pain, and tenderness of an illicit romance, and has influenced many a cinematic brief encounter since its release.

Cast Muir Mathieson Disc Features High-definition digital transfer of the BFI National Archive’s 2008 restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray Audio commentary from 2000 by film historian Bruce Eder Interview from 2012 with Noël Coward scholar Barry Day A Profile of “Brief Encounter,” a short documentary from 2000 on the making of the film David Lean: A Self Portrait, a 1971 television documentary on Lean’s career Trailer PLUS: An essay by historian Kevin Brownlow Current Posts Reintroducing David Lean’s Brief Encounter April 25, 2016 Brief Encounter, David Lean’s heartbreaking 1945 tale of forbidden love (out on Blu-ray tomorrow), remains one of the screen’s all-time most romantic films. Adapted for the screen by Noël Coward . . . Read more » Photo Galleries “Riskiest Thing I Ever Did”: Notes on Brief Encounter By Kevin Brownlow March 27, 2012 At a turning point in his career, David Lean adapted a short Noël Coward play into one of the greatest screen romances. Read more » Film Essays When Noël Met David . .

. By Ian Christie March 27, 2012 In which an already iconic playwright comes to appreciate cinema and a soon-to-be legendary filmmaker finds his voice. Read more » Film Essays Brief Encounter By Adrian Turner June 26, 2000 Brief Encounter was the fourth and final film that David Lean made in association with Noël Coward. Derived from Still Life, a one-act play which Coward included in the portmanteau Tonight 8:30, . . . Read more » Film Essays “Riskiest Thing I Ever Did”: Notes on Brief Encounter By Kevin Brownlow March 27, 2012 At a turning point in his career, David Lean adapted a short Noël Coward play into one of the greatest screen romances. Read more » Film Essays When Noël Met David . . . By Ian Christie March 27, 2012 In which an already iconic playwright comes to appreciate cinema and a soon-to-be legendary filmmaker finds his voice. Read more » Film Essays Brief Encounter By Adrian Turner June 26, 2000 Brief Encounter was the fourth and final film that David Lean made in association with Noël Coward.

Derived from Still Life, a one-act play which Coward included in the portmanteau Tonight 8:30, . . . Read more » Announcements Essential Art House On Sale November 30, 2016 Catch up on the classics! Select Essential Art House DVD releases are on sale starting at $9. Makes a great stocking stuffer! Read more » Video Reintroducing David Lean’s Brief Encounter April 25, 2016 Brief Encounter, David Lean’s heartbreaking 1945 tale of forbidden love (out on Blu-ray tomorrow), remains one of the screen’s all-time most romantic films. Adapted for the screen by Noël Coward . . . Read more » Photo Galleries “Riskiest Thing I Ever Did”: Notes on Brief Encounter By Kevin Brownlow March 27, 2012 At a turning point in his career, David Lean adapted a short Noël Coward play into one of the greatest screen romances. Read more » Film Essays When Noël Met David . . . By Ian Christie March 27, 2012 In which an already iconic playwright comes to appreciate cinema and a soon-to-be legendary filmmaker finds his voice.

Read more » News Noël Coward in New York March 07, 2012 A celebration of one of the great cosmopolites of the twentieth century, in one of the cosmopolises he adored. Read more » News From Stage to Screen to Stage December 04, 2009 Brief Encounter, that eternal model of restraint, is coming out of its shell in a play opening this week in New York. A touring production of the Cornwall-based company Kneehigh Theatre, this . . . Read more » Film Essays The FreshSite: Film: Reviews: Brief Encounter (1945) Review Simplistic and invigorating romantic drama, evolving around two middle-class, middle-aged people, husband and wife in separate dull marriages, who meet by chance in a railway station and embark on an emotional awakening together. Adapted, or rather expanded, from Noel Coward's one act play, Brief Encounter emerges as layered and psychologically complete, dealing devotedly with every aspect of a potential adultery at the time in question. The film is at its most impressive depicting the moral values of the 1940s Britain while at the same time retaining a universal, timeless nature.

And Coward naturally finds place for a few jabs at arch-English etiquette. The film is sentimental in nature; only in a couple of scenes towards the end does it threaten to overdo it. But fine acting from Johnson and particularly Howard keeps it convincing throughout. David Lean directed with impressive neatness. This sort of running-time would have been unthinkable towards the end of his career. Copyright ï¿½ 24.4.2007 Fredrik Gunerius Fevang Theatre review: Brief Encounter / Cinema Haymarket, London | Stage | The Guardian Share on Messenger Close David Lean's iconic 1945 movie, Brief Encounter, was based on a Noel Coward one-act play, Still Life, written a decade earlier. Now Emma Rice has conflated the two versions to come up with a multimedia show staged in a West End cinema; and, while the result has all the frenzied inventiveness one associates with her Kneehigh company, it also emerges as a somewhat odd hybrid. The basic story remains: Laura, the respectable suburban wife, and Alec, the idealistic, married doctor, meet in a station buffet, fall passionately in love but are doomed never to find fulfilment.

But Rice has added any number of other ingredients. She heightens the contrasting earthiness of two other railway station couplings. She intersperses the romantic action with nine Coward ditties played in front of a ruched curtain. And she deploys newly conceived film sequences either to articulate the characters' hidden emotions or to create a mood of parodic nostalgia. It all becomes a bit much. The contrast between Laura and Alec's thwarted passion and the rampant randiness of the station staff clearly makes a point about stifling, middle-class conventions; it is also a slightly tendentious one, since neither of the other couples is currently married. And while it is good to hear some of Coward's less familiar songs, such as the raucously rude Alice Is At It Again, it creates a mood more akin to that of his music-hall skit, Red Peppers, than Still Life. Even the use of filmed inserts to show Laura's secret yearning to be a liberated creature of the sea slightly misses the point: the pathos of Lean's film and Coward's play springs from the very fact that intense, inner feelings can never be fully expressed. Yet, although the show is overloaded, Rice uses the stage with imaginative freedom.

Best of all, because it genuinely catches something of the film's choked emotion, is a scene in a boat yard where Laura and Alec shyly remove their wet clothes and gaze at each other with rhapsodic delight to the accompaniment of Coward's Go Slow Johnny. The scene where Laura nearly throws herself under a train is also well done, with the heroine poised on an overhead gantry while a traverse curtain deftly shows the hurtling train beneath. Even if Naomi Frederick and Tristan Sturrock cannot hope to compete with our movie memories of Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard, they both give thoroughly decent performances. But, in this democratic version, it is the minor characters who come off best: especially Amanda Lawrence as a station-buffet menial with her own secret dreams and Tamzin Griffin as her hoity-toity, slyly suggestive boss. In the end, however, the show friskily demonstrates Kneehigh's skill but at the cost of the quiet integrity that makes the original Brief Encounter so peerlessly moving. · Until June 22. Box Office: 0871 230 1562.

David Lean’s Brief Encounter (1945), Based on a Noël Coward’s Play: Film Review David Lean’s Brief Encounter (1945), Based on a Noël Coward’s Play: Film Review by Mira An intimate, small-scale drama about two ordinary married people who fall in love. Wonderful acting and cinematography. No specific spoilers. You may recognize David Lean’s name from famous movies such as Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965), and A Passage to India (1984), as well as Great Expectations (1946) and Oliver Twist (1948). You are also probably familiar with Noël Coward, one of the most famous English playwrights of the 20th century. Brief Encounter (1945) is based on a one-act, half-hour play of 1936 by Noël Coward, titled Still Life. It’s a story about love and convention in 1938 suburban London, filmed at a time when, post-WWII, women’s participation in the war effort was leading to a change in how women were scene and how they saw themselves.

As a result, social mores were beginning to change. In fact, at a showing of the Brief Encounter in one suburban British cinema in 1945, one woman in the front row laughed at the restraint the lovers were showing, and other women further back in the cinema hall echoed her laugh. The producers worried that maybe the tone of Brief Encounter was outdated, already a thing of the past. In fact, there’s such delicacy in the acting of the two protagonists that this movie will never get outdated. Celia Johnson’s facial expressions, redolent of silent movies (an observation that she herself made at the time the movie was shot), and the whole cinematic vocabulary of suppressed passion and doomed love turn Brief Encounter into a classic. I won’t spoil the details of the story for you. I’ll just say that it’s about a romance between a married housewife (Laura Jesson, played by Celia Johnson) and a married doctor (Alec Harvey, played by Trevor Howard) that grows out of “brief encounters” at a railway station and in the countryside.

In terms of film technique, the direction and choice of symbols here are truly wonderful, even as they are rather clichéd by now in cinema: steam trains puffing out of the train station and intense, dramatic music (Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2) for sexual passion; the lying other seen in a mirror; Laura’s interest in Rachmaninoff, which suggests she was more than a colorless, sedate housewife; the text frames in the films they see at the cinema, reading “Flames of Passion” in blaring letters; the lightning that brings out, subtly or forcefully, Laura’s emotions; the lackluster backdrop of a railway station that fits the story of repressed emotion; the stir around the counter in the refreshment area (manned by Myrtle Bagot as Joyce Carey), where, in the manner of literature and films on social class manners there’s a foil to the main romance; dark, rainy streets that echo the mood of the story . . . all this makes for memorable cinema.

Brief Encounter (The Criterion Collection) DVD Noël Coward's 'Brief Encounter' trailer (Kneehigh Theatre) - YouTube Noël Coward's 'Brief Encounter' trailer (Kneehigh Theatre) Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Nov 5, 2013 David Lean's classic 1945 film Brief Encounter, based on Noël Coward's original stage play Still Life, is the starting point for this lovingly rendered homage to both great classics and is remembered as one of the most haunting love stories of all time. We're thrilled to present this widely acclaimed production from the UK's esteemed Kneehigh Theatre, last seen in Australia at the Sydney Festival with The Red Shoes. Switching seamlessly between live theatre and film footage, this extraordinary retelling has been a hit both on Broadway and in the West End, taking audiences back to a bygone age of romance and the silver screen.

With live musicians on stage, characters jumping in and out of film screens, and a couple so in love that they literally float on air, Brief Encounter will take you on a breathtaking, funny and poignant ride filled with Noël Coward's debonair songs. Nominated for four Olivier Awards, Brief Encounter is not to be missed. Category Brief Encounter (1945) Synopsis - Plot Summary - Fandango GO Synopsis Based on Noël Coward 's play "Still Life," Brief Encounter is a romantic, bittersweet drama about two married people who meet by chance in a London railway station and carry on an intense love affair. Sentimental yet down-to-earth and set in pre-World War II England, the film follows British housewife Laura Jesson ( Celia Johnson ), who is on her way home, but catches a cinder in her eye. By chance, she meets Dr. Alec Harvey ( Trevor Howard ), who removes it for her. The two talk for a few minutes and strike immediate sparks, but they end up catching different trains.

However, both return to the station once a week to meet and, as the film progresses, they grow closer, sharing stories, hopes, and fears about their lives, marriages, and children. One day, when Alec's train is late, both become frantic that they will miss each other. When they finally find each other, they realize that they are in love. But what should be a joyous realization is fraught with tragedy, since both care greatly for their families. Howard and Johnson give flawless performances as two practical, married people who find themselves in a situation in which they know they can never be happy. ~ Don Kaye, Rovi Provided by Rovi Noël Coward - IMDb IMDb Writer | Soundtrack | Actor Noel Coward virtually invented the concept of Englishness for the 20th century. An astounding polymath - dramatist, actor, writer, composer, lyricist, painter, and wit -- he was defined by his Englishness as much as he defined it. He was indeed the first Brit pop star, the first ambassador of "cool Britannia." Even before his 1924 drugs-and-sex ...

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See more awards » Known For 2013 Burton and Taylor (TV Movie) (extracts from the play "Private Lives" - as Noel Coward) 2011 Brief Encounter (Short) (as Noel Coward) 2008 Easy Virtue (play - as Noel Coward) 2003 Privatni zivoti (TV Movie) (novel "Private Lives" - as Noel Coward) 2000 Relative Values (play - as Noel Coward) 1991 Tonight at 8.30 (TV Series) (writer - 8 episodes) - Shadow Play (1991) ... (writer - as Noel Coward) - Still Life (1991) ... (writer - as Noel Coward) - Ways and Means (1991) ... (writer - as Noel Coward) - Fumed Oak (1991) ... (writer - as Noel Coward) - Family Album (1991) ...

(writer - as Noel Coward) 1988 Rumpole of the Bailey (TV Series) (excerpts from "TONIGHT AT 8.30" and "We Were Dancing" by - 1 episode) - Rumpole and Portia (1988) ... (excerpts from "TONIGHT AT 8.30" and "We Were Dancing" by - as Noel Coward) 1987 Sidste akt (play - as Noel Coward) 1986 Quadrille (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward) 1986 Földi kacaj (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward) 1985 Me and the Girls (TV Movie) (story - as Noel Coward) 1985 What Mad Pursuit? (TV Movie) (story - as Noel Coward) 1985 Mrs.

Capper's Birthday (TV Movie) (story - as Noel Coward) 1985 Star Quality (TV Movie) (story - as Noel Coward) 1984 Hay Fever (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward) 1984 Hayfever (TV Movie) (play "Hay Fever") 1983 La comedia (TV Series) (play - 1 episode) - Fácil virtud (1983) ... (play - as Noel Coward) Estudio 1 (TV Series) (play "Fallen Angels" - 1 episode, 1982) (play - 1 episode, 1980) (play "Blithe Spirit" - 1 episode, 1970) (play "Hay Fever" - 1 episode, 1968) - Ángeles caídos (1982) ... (play "Fallen Angels" - as Noel Coward) - Desnudo con violín (1980) ... (play - as Noel Coward) - Un espíritu burlón (1970) ...

(play "Blithe Spirit" - as Noel Coward) - La encantadora familia Bliss (1968) ... (play "Hay Fever" - as Noel Coward) BBC2 Playhouse (TV Series) (play - 2 episodes, 1981 - 1982) (writer - 1 episode, 1982) - The Kindness of Mrs. Radcliffe (1981) ... (play - as Noel Coward) 1981 Present Laughter (TV Movie) (as Noel Coward) 1980 The Marquise (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward) BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) (play - 2 episodes, 1969 - 1979) (writer - 1 episode, 1968) - Design for Living (1979) ... (play - as Noel Coward) - The Marquise (1969) ... (play - as Noel Coward) - Hay Fever (1968) ...

(writer - as Noel Coward) 1977 Die Marquise (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward) 1976 Private Lives (TV Movie) (as Noel Coward) Au théâtre ce soir (TV Series) (play - 3 episodes, 1973 - 1975) (play "Hay Fever" - 1 episode, 1976) - Week-end (1976) ... (play "Hay Fever" - as Noel Coward) - Le nu au tambour (1975) ... (play - as Noel Coward) - Jeux d'esprit (1974) ... (play - as Noel Coward) - Félicity (1973) ... (play - as Noel Coward) 1974 Brief Encounter (TV Movie) (play "Still Life" - as Noel Coward) 1974 Fallen Angels (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward) - Song at Twilight (1973) ...

(writer - as Noel Coward) 1972 Joyeux chagrins (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward) 1972 Amouren (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward) Alta comedia (TV Series) (1 episode, 1970) (play "Blithe Spirit" - 1 episode, 1972) - Espíritu travieso (1972) ... (play "Blithe Spirit" - as Noel Coward) 1971 Temni hrast (TV Movie) (novel - as Noel Coward) 1971 Teatro 13 (TV Series) (1 episode) 1969 This Happy Breed (TV Movie) (as Noel Coward) 1969 Red Peppers (TV Movie) (as Noel Coward) 1969 The Wednesday Play (TV Series) (by - 1 episode) - The Vortex (1969) ...

(as Noel Coward) / (by - as Noel Coward) 1969 Duett im Zwielicht (TV Movie) (play "Duett im Zwielicht" - as Noel Coward) 1968 Kratak susret (TV Movie) (as Noel Coward) ITV Playhouse (TV Series) (writer - 2 episodes, 1968) (story - 1 episode, 1968) - The Kindness of Mrs Radcliffe (1968) ... (writer - as Noel Coward) - Bon Voyage (1968) ... (writer - as Noel Coward) - Star Quality (1968) ... (story - as Noel Coward) 1968 Interlude (play "Still Life" - as Noel Coward) 1968 The Jazz Age (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Post Mortem (1968) ...

(writer - as Noel Coward) 1968 Weekend (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward) 1968 Vaimoni kummittelee (TV Movie) (play "Blithe Spirit" - as Noel Coward) Armchair Theatre (TV Series) (story - 1 episode, 1968) (writer - 1 episode, 1966) - Mrs Capper's Birthday (1968) ... (story - as Noel Coward) - Pretty Polly (1966) ... (writer - as Noel Coward) 1967 A Matter of Innocence (story "Pretty Polly Barlow" - as Noel Coward) ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) (1 episode, 1964) (play - 4 episodes, 1959 - 1964) (writer - 2 episodes, 1960 - 1964) (author - 1 episode, 1967) - Present Laughter (1967) ...

(author - as Noel Coward) 1967 Before the Fringe (TV Series) (as Noel Coward) 1966 Hooikoorts (TV Movie) (play "Hay Fever" - as Noel Coward) 1966 Blithe Spirit (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward) 1966 Wechselkurs der Liebe (TV Movie) (play "Relative Values" - as Noel Coward) 1966 Oh, diese Geister (TV Movie) (play "Blithe Spirit" - as Noel Coward) 1966 Quadrille (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward) 1966 Geisterkomödie (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward) 1966 Falne engler (TV Movie) (based on play - as Noel Coward) 1965 Südsee-Affaire (TV Movie) (play "The South Sea Bubble" - as Noel Coward) 1965 Høyfeber (TV Movie) (based on play - as Noel Coward) 1965 Geisterkomödie - Eine unwahrscheinliche

 Komödie (TV Movie) (play "Blithe Spirit" - as Noel Coward) - Blithe Spirit (1964) ...

(as Noel Coward) 1964 Nude with Violin (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward) 1964 Teatterituokio (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Viisas tohvelisankari (1964) ... (writer - as Noel Coward) 1964 Amouren (TV Movie) (play "Present Laughter" - as Noel Coward) 1964 Markisinnan (TV Movie) (play "The Marquise" - as Noel Coward) 1963 Möblemang i ek (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward) 1963 Festival (TV Series) (play - 1 episode) - Fallen Angels (1963) ... (play - as Noel Coward) - Twentieth Century Theatre: The Vortex (1960) ...

(play - as Noel Coward) 1962 Geisterkomödie (TV Movie) (play "Blithe Spirit" - as Noel Coward) 1961 Das Maß ist voll (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward) 1961 Quadrille (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward) 1961 Zwischen den Zügen (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward) 1961 Minkä minulle voitte (TV Movie) (play "Present Laughter" - as Noel Coward) 1961 Hooikoorts (TV Movie) (play "Hay Fever" - as Noel Coward) 1961 The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (TV Series) (play - 1 episode) - Brief Encounter (1961) ... (play - as Noel Coward) - A Mulher do Outro Mundo (1960) ... (play - as Noel Coward) 1960 Art Carney Special (TV Series) (play Red Peppers - 1 episode) - Three in One (1960) ...

(play Red Peppers - as Noel Coward) 1959 Akt mit Geige (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward) 1959 Kurze Begegnung (TV Movie) (play "Brief Encounter" - as Noel Coward) 1959 Intimitäten (TV Movie) (play "Private Lives" - as Noel Coward) 1959 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) (play - 1 episode) - Private Lives (1959) ...

(play - as Noel Coward) 1959 Fim de Semana no Campo (TV Series) (play - as Noel Coward) 1958 Red Peppers (TV Short) (as Noel Coward) 1958 Yoka (TV Movie) (texts - as Noel Coward) 1957 Weekend (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward) Grande Teatro Tupi (TV Series) (2 episodes, 1956 - 1957) (play - 1 episode, 1953) (story - 1 episode, 1952) - Breve Encontro (1956) ... (as Noel Coward) - Espírito Travesso (1953) ... (play - as Noel Coward) - Uma Mulher do Outro Mundo (1952) ...

(story - as Noel Coward) 1956 Nude with Violin (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward) 1956 South Sea Bubble (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward) Ford Star Jubilee (TV Series) (adaptation - 1 episode, 1956) (play - 1 episode, 1956) (written by - 1 episode, 1955) - This Happy Breed (1956) ... (adaptation - as Noel Coward) / (play - as Noel Coward) 1956 Det er så yndigt (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward) 1956 Blithe Spirit (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward) 1955 The 20th Century-Fox Hour (TV Series) (play - 1 episode) - Cavalcade (1955) ... (play - as Noel Coward) 1955 TV de Vanguarda (TV Series) (1 episode) - Desencanto (1955) ...

(as Noel Coward) 1955 Zwischen den Zügen (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward) 1954 Producers' Showcase (TV Series) (play "Tonight at 8: 30: Red Peppers, Still Life and Shadow Play" - 1 episode) - Tonight at 8:30 (1954) ... (play "Tonight at 8: 30: Red Peppers, Still Life and Shadow Play" - as Noel Coward) 1952 Tonight at 8:30 (play "Tonight at 8: 30" - as Noel Coward) 1951 Schlitz Playhouse (TV Series) (play - 1 episode) - Still Life (1951) ...

(play - as Noel Coward) 1950 The Astonished Heart (by - as Noel Coward) / (play - uncredited) / (screenplay - as Noel Coward) 1948 Blithe Spirit (TV Movie) (as Noel Coward) 1948 Red Peppers (TV Short) (as Noel Coward) 1946 Hay Fever (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward) 1946 Blithe Spirit (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward) 1945 Brief Encounter (play "Still Life" - uncredited) 1945 Blithe Spirit (play - uncredited) / (screenplay - uncredited) 1942 In Which We Serve (by - as Noel Coward) 1942 We Were Dancing (play "Tonight at 8: 30" - as Noel Coward) 1940 Bitter Sweet (original play - as Noel Coward) 1939 Private Lives (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward) 1939 Hay Fever (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward) 19

39 The Young Idea (TV Movie) (as Noel Coward) 1938 Hay Fever (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward) 1938 Red Peppers (TV Movie) (as Noel Coward) 1938 Hands Across the Sea (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward) 1937 Red Peppers (TV Movie) (as Noel Coward) 1936 The Terrible Lovers (play "Private Lives" - as Noel Coward) 1933 Design for Living (play - as Noel Coward) 1933 Bitter Sweet (play and dialogue - as Noel Coward) 1933 Tonight Is Ours (play "The Queen Was In the Parlor" - as Noel Coward) 1933 Cavalcade (play - uncredited) 1931 Private Lives (from the play by - as Noel Coward) 1928 The Vortex (play - as Noel Coward) 1928 Easy Virtue (adapted from the play by - as Noel Coward) 1927 Forbidden Love (play - as Noel Coward

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(writer: "Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans" - uncredited) Storyville (TV Series documentary) (performer - 1 episode, 2012) (writer - 1 episode, 2012) - The Real Great Escape (2012) ... (performer: "A Room With A View", "Don't Put Your Daughter on the Stage, Mrs Worthington") / (writer: "A Room With A View", "Don't Put Your Daughter on the Stage, Mrs Worthington") 2010 BBC Swingin' Christmas (TV Movie) (lyrics: "Mad About the Boy") / (music: "Mad About the Boy") 2009 De wereld draait door (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Episode #4.174 (2009) ... (writer: "Mad About the Boy" - uncredited) 2009 The Inbetweeners (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Will's Birthday (2009) ...

(writer: "Mad About the Boy" - uncredited) Cold Case (TV Series) (lyrics - 1 episode, 2009) (music - 1 episode, 2009) - Libertyville (2009) ... (lyrics: "Never Again" - uncredited) / (music: "Never Again" - uncredited) 2008 Timeshift (TV Series documentary) (performer - 1 episode) - The Comic Songbook (2008) ...

(performer: "The Hippopotamus Song") 2008 Easy Virtue (writer: "Mad About the Boy", "A Room with a View", "I'll See You Again", "Mad Dogs and Englishmen") 2007 Hitler: The Comedy Years (TV Movie documentary) (performer: "Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans") / (writer: "Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans") 2006 A Good Year (performer: "A Room with a View") / (writer: "A Room with a View") 2006 Torvill & Dean's Dancing on Ice (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Episode #1.1 (2006) ... (writer: "Mad About The Boy") - Marple: What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw (2004) ...

("I Travel Alone") 2004 Being Julia (writer: "Mad about the Boy") 2003 Bright Young Things (performer: "Nina", "Twentieth Century Blues", "Dance, Little Lady", "The Party's Over Now") / (writer: "Nina", "Twentieth Century Blues", "Dance, Little Lady", "The Party's Over Now") 2002 Elaine Stritch at Liberty (TV Movie documentary) (writer: "Why Do The Wrong People Travel?", "I Went To A Marvelous Party") 2001 Changi (TV Mini-Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Pacifying the Angels (2001) ... (writer: "I'll See You Again") 2001 The Mystic Masseur (writer: "That's the End of the News") 1998 The Misadventures of Margaret (performer: "Something to Do with Spring") / (writer: "Something to Do with Spring") - The Twenties (1997) ...

("Twentieth Century Blues", uncredited) 1997 Paradise Road (writer: "Mad About the Boy") 1996 James and the Giant Peach (performer: "Sail Away") / (writer: "Sail Away") 1995 A Midwinter's Tale (writer: "Why Must The Show Go On") - I Accuse My Parents (1993) ... (writer: "Mad About the Boy" - uncredited) 1991 Countdown (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Episode #22.12 (1991) ...

(writer: "Matelot" uncredited) 1989 En himla många program (TV Mini-Series) (lyrics: "I morgon kommer sakert krisen" - as N Coward) / (music: "I morgon kommer sakert krisen" - as N Coward) 1989 Crimes and Misdemeanors (writer: "I'll See You Again" (1929)) 1989 Goldeneye (TV Movie) (writer: "Poor Little Rich Girl", "Dance Little Lady" - uncredited) 1989 Ten Little Indians (performer: "Mad Dogs And Englishmen") / (producer: "Mad Dogs And Englishmen") / (writer: "Mad Dogs And Englishmen") 1987 'Allo 'Allo (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Camp Dance (1987) ... (writer: "Mad About the Boy" - uncredited) 1987 Fame (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Pros and Cons (1987) ... (writer: "What Ho, Mrs.

Brisket", "Men About Town") 1984 Finders Keepers (writer: "Mad About the Boy" - uncredited) 1983 Better Late Than Never (lyrics: "I WENT TO A MARVELLOUS PARTY") / (music: "I WENT TO A MARVELLOUS PARTY") 1978-1979 The Muppet Show (TV Series) (writer - 2 episodes) - Leslie Uggams (1979) ... (writer: "Mad about the Boy" - uncredited) - Cleo Laine (1978) ... (writer: "Mad Dogs and Englishmen") - Ain't We Got Fun (1977) ... (writer: "Poor Little Rich Girl" - uncredited) 1973 Lily (TV Special) (lyrics: "Twentieth Century Blues") / (music: "Twentieth Century Blues") The Graham Kennedy Show (TV Series) (lyrics - 1 episode, 1973) (writer - 1 episode, 1973) - Episode dated 17 July 1973 (1973) ...

(lyrics: "Noël Coward medley - 'Play, Orchestra, Play', 'Don't Put Your Daughter on the Stage, Mrs. Worthington', 'If Love Were All', 'That is the End of the News', 'Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)', 'I'll See You Again', 'What Ho! Mrs. Brisket', 'Zigeuner', 'Has Anybody Seen Our Ship?', 'A Room with a View', 'Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)' reprise") / (writer: "Noël Coward medley - 'Play, Orchestra, Play', 'Don't Put Your Daughter on the Stage, Mrs. Worthington', 'If Love Were All', 'That is the End of the News', 'Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)', 'I'll See You Again', 'What Ho! Mrs.

Brisket', 'Zigeuner', 'Has Anybody Seen Our Ship?', 'A Room with a View', 'Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)' reprise") 1973 Colditz (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Gone Away: Part 2 - With the Wild Geese (1973) ... (writer: "A Room With a View" - uncredited) 1970 Dad's Army (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Absent Friends (1970) ... (writer: "A Room with a View " - uncredited) 1969 The Coward Revue (TV Movie) (lyrics: "Could You Please Oblige Us With A Bren Gun") / (music: "Could You Please Oblige Us With A Bren Gun") 1969 The Magic Christian ("Mad About The Boy") 1968 Star! (writer: "Forbidden Fruit", "Parisian Pierrot", "Someday I'll Find You", "Has Anybody Seen Our Ship") - Episode #1.20 (1958) ...

(writer: "London Pride") 1956 Hey, Jeannie! (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - The Donut Machine (1956) ... (writer: "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" - uncredited) - How Jack Met Rochester (1956) ... (writer: "Mad Dogs And Englishmen" - uncredited) Ford Star Jubilee (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode, 1955) (writer - 1 episode, 1955) - Together with Music (1955) ...

(performer: "Together with Music", "Uncle Harry", "Nina", "Mad Dogs and Englishmen", "Ninety Minutes Is a Long, Long Time", "I'll See You Again", "Dance Little Lady", "Poor Little Rich Girl", "Room With a View", "Someday I'll Find You", "I'll Follow My Secret Heart", "If Love Were All", "Play, Orchestra, Play", "World Weary", "What's Going to Happen to the Tots", "Deep in the Heart of Texas", "Get Out Those Old Records", "They Didn't Believe Me", "'S Wonderful", "Time on My Hands", "I Didn't Know What Time It Was", "Anything Goes", "Dancing in the Dark", "Ballerina", "I Won't Dance", "Papa, Won't You Dance with Me?" - uncredited) / (writer: "Together with Music", "Uncle Harry", "Nina", "Mad Dogs and Englishmen", "Ninety Minutes Is a Long, Long Time", "I'll See You Again", "Dance Little Lady", "Poor Little Rich Girl", "Room With a View", "Someday I'll

 Find You", "I'll Follow My Secret Heart", "If Love Were All", "Play, Orchestra, Play", "World Weary", "What's Going to Happen to the Tots", "London Pride" - uncredited) 1954 Let's Make Up (writer: "Dance Little Lady" - as Noël Coward) 1952 Farlig kurva (writer: "I'll See You Again" - uncredited) 1952 Tonight at 8:30 (writer: "Men About Town", "Has Anybody Seen Our Ship?") 2015 Timeshift (TV Series documentary) Himself - Speaking in 1969 2012 When Ali Came to Britain (TV Movie documentary) Himself 2011 Entertaining the Troops (TV Movie documentary) Himself (as Noel Coward) 2010 Time to Remember (TV Series documentary) Himself 2008 Ian Fleming: Where Bond Began (TV Movie documentary) Himself (as Noel Coward) 2007 British Film Forever (TV Mini-Series documentary) Himself 2005 American Experience (TV Series documentary) Himself 200

5 Legendary Sin Cities (TV Mini-Series documentary) Himself - Playwright 2001 The Nightclub Years (TV Special documentary) Himself (as Noel Coward) 2000 Ian Fleming: 007's Creator (Video documentary short) Himself (as Noel Coward) 1999 The James Bond Story (TV Movie documentary) Himself (as Noel Coward) November 26, 1945 - What Happened - On This Day On This Day What Happened on November 26, 1945 Full Calendar Day of the Week: Monday Historical Events Film Release "Brief Encounter", based on Noël Coward's one-act play "Still Life", directed by David Lean and starring Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard is released Film Director David Lean Event of Interest Charlie "Bird" Parker leads a record date for the Savoy label, marketed as the "greatest Jazz session ever" Jazz Saxophonist and Composer During snow storm, school bus crashes, kills 15 (Washington) Famous Birthdays Björn von Sydow, Swedish politician Daniel Davis, Gurdun Ark, actor (Niles-Nanny) John McVie, British rock bassist (Fleetwood

 Mac-Rumours, Tusk) Tandy Cronyn, actress (Twisted, Guardian, Age Old Friends)

Question: Which 1945 film was based on the Noel Coward play ‘Still Life’?
Answer: Brief Encounter