A legendary figure in the world of entertainment, Coward made a sizeable
contribution to the British cinema, particularly with
In Which We Serve (1942) and Brief
Encounter (1945) for which his screenplay was directed by his co-director
on the former film, David Lean. Many of
his plays have been filmed, some more than once. They include The
Vortex (1928), Private Lives (1931), Cavalcade (1933), Bitter
Sweet (1933), Design for Living (1933), This
Happy Breed (1944) and Blithe
Spirit (1945). He was played by Daniel Massey in the expensive Hollywood
biography of Gertrude Lawrence, Star! (1968).
