Brief Encounter by Noel Coward

Brief Encounter by Noel Coward

The simple story of an unconsummated love affair between a suburban doctor and a middle-class housewife, Brief Encounter can claim to be the most romantic film in British cinema. Based by Noel Coward upon his short play Still Life, the screenplay conjures up the drab, emotionally restrained world of post-war Britain better than almost any other literary text. It was nominated for an Oscar at the 1947 Academy Awards.Brief Encounter is perhaps the most moving and fully realised of all David Lean's films.

Noel Coward was a professional actor by the age of 10. In 1920, he starred in his own play, I'll Leave it to You. His first major hit was The Vortex, and his success continued throughout the 1920s and 1930s with plays including Hay Fever, Private Lives, and Design for Living. During World War II, he wrote the patriotic screenplay In Which We Serve, for which he won an Oscar, as well as scripting the classic film Brief Encounter and entertaining the nation with the black comedy Blithe Spirit. After the war, Coward added a new string to his bow as a cabaret singer, as well as continuing to write musicals and plays. In all, Coward wrote 40 plays, 300 songs, and numerous poems, short stories, and films. He was knighted in 1970, and died in Jamaica in 1973.

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ISBN 13	9780571196807
ISBN 10	0571196802
Title	Brief Encounter
Author	Noel Coward
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Faber & Faber
Year published	1999-02-15
Number of pages	96
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