Alumni of the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts - Tracey Ullman, Betty Marsden, Leslie Phillips, William Hartnell, Noel Coward (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 88. Chapters: Tracey Ullman, Betty Marsden, Leslie Phillips, William Hartnell, Noel Coward, Steve Marriott, Russell Brand, Gertrude Lawrence, Naomi Campbell, Charles Hawtrey, Pixie Lott, Anthony Newley, Patsy Kensit, Bonnie Langford, Martine McCutcheon, Kelly Brook, Louise Redknapp, Wendy Richard, Lesley Manville, Stephanie Fearon, Graeme Harper, Lisa Scott-Lee, Olivia Hussey, Jack Hawkins, Brian Aherne, Tricia Walsh, Lisa Snowdon, Anton Rodgers, Leslie Ash, Daniel Mays, Amanda Mealing, Lena Zavaroni, Googie Withers, Sadie Frost, Tracie Bennett, Emma Forbes, Sam Attwater, Karen Gillan, Peter Duncan, Claire Sweeney, Nadia Sawalha, Zaraah Abrahams, Sadie Corre, Claire Goose, Wayne Russell, Sheree Murphy, Johnny Briggs, Nanette Newman, Jack Blumenau, Natalie Gumede, Leila Birch, Joanna Forest, Denise Gyngell, Jocelyn Osorio, Sandra Payne, Nina Toussaint-White, Peter Bayliss, Simon Naylor, Suzanne Enoch. Excerpt: Sir Noel Peirce Coward (16 December 1899 - 26 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise." Born in Teddington, a suburb of London, Coward attended a dance academy in London as a child, making his professional stage debut at the age of eleven. As a teenager he was introduced into the high society in which most of his plays would be set. Coward achieved enduring success as a playwright, publishing more than 50 plays from his teens onwards. Many of his works, such as Hay Fever, Private Lives, Design for Living, Present Laughter and Blithe Spirit, have remained in the regular theatre repertoire. He composed hundreds of songs, in addition to well over a dozen musical theatre works (including the operetta Bitter Sweet and comic revues), poetry, several volumes o...