What's my Line? Noel Coward
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That must havebeen an enormous tax bill to get NC onto WML!
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You are right. These WML clips are addictive and wonderful. Where are Lauritz
Melchior, Roberta Peters, Rise Stevens, Robert Merrill, Jan Peerce, Richard
Tucker, Yehudi Menuhin, and others from the world of classical music?
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Coward had a wonderful reference to Ernest Hemingway in one of his songs (it was on a double album with a caricature of Coward on the jacket cover). The song was Porter's "Let's Do It" where he adds the line (ad lib?) "even Ernest Hemingway does it somewhere in Africa"). (I'm not sure of the exact wording.) According to Olivier the Queen delayed his knighthood due to his sexual preference. As I recall in his autobio, O doesn't mention Coward's name but it seems obvious whom he referred to.
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@staytunedfor You're absolutely right. I spent an entire Sunday watching these. ;)
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Ohh now now, what's my line? Ohh now now, what's my line?
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@gtlfb That's too bad, I would've loved to see Noel in another of David Lean's great movies. Although Alec Guinness was wonderful as Nicholson.
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Coward may be as well known for the things he didn't do - among the roles he turned down were the king in 'The King and I' (he recommended Yul Brynner), Henry Higgins in 'My Fair Lady', Humbert Humbert in 'Lolita', Dr. No in the first James Bond movie, and Colonel Nicholson in 'Bridge on the River Kwai'. The only one he regretted was 'Kwai'.
9 months ago 3
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All this makes Noel Coward's comment upon hearing of Dorothy Kilgallen's sudden demise (Accident? Suicide? Murder? A half-century later, the jury's still out on that one) a few years later that much more ironic: "Ah, me! I shall miss hating her on television every Sunday night."
A more fitting epitaph than that, no one could have.
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yeeiis! rofl xDDDDD
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staytunedfor, I agree. I can't stop watching them!
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staytunedfor 2 years ago 46
During WWII, in his book "Middle East Diary," describing his visit to an Army hospital, he wrote: "I was less impressed by some of the mournful little Brooklyn boys lying there in tears amidst the alien corn with nothing worse than a bullet in the leg or a fractured arm." It caused a big stink and later, while on tour to entertain the troops, he worried about what his reception be from American GI's. He walked on stage and welcomed "all the dear mournful boys from Brooklyn" & they cheered him.
lorrephile 2 years ago 17