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Gertrude Lawrence (4 July 1898 – 6 September 1952) was an English actress, singer, dancer and musical comedy performer known for her stage appearances in the West End of London and on Broadway in New York.
Star! (film) Star! Star! (re-titled Those Were the Happy Times for its 1969 re-release) is a 1968 American biographical musical film directed by Robert Wise and starring Julie Andrews. The screenplay by William Fairchild is based on the life and career of British performer Gertrude Lawrence .
Gertrude Lawrence, who had been featured in the André Charlot revues of 1924 and 1925, was chosen as the star before the songs or story had been written. In accordance with the typical creative process for early American musicals, George and Ira Gershwin wrote the score to Oh, Kay! before the librettists, Bolton and Wodehouse, began work on ...
Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell CBE (14 July 1868 – 12 July 1926) was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, and archaeologist. She spent much of her life exploring and mapping the Middle East, and became highly influential to British imperial policy-making as an Arabist due to her knowledge and contacts built up ...
Gertrude Lawrence twice reprised her leading stage role for a one-hour adaptation on Theatre Guild on the Air; [15] on October 19, 1947, [16] and on March 5, 1950. [17] On January 29, 1945, Ginger Rogers, who played Liza in the film version, starred with Ray Milland in a one-hour adaptation for Lux Radio Theatre on CBS Radio . [ 18 ]
A hotel in Deauville, France, and a flat in Paris in the 1930s. Private Lives is a 1930 comedy of manners in three acts by Noël Coward. It concerns a divorced couple who, while honeymooning with their new spouses, discover that they are staying in adjacent rooms at the same hotel. Despite a perpetually stormy relationship, they realise that ...
Someday I'll Find You is a song written by Noël Coward. It was introduced by Coward and Gertrude Lawrence in Coward's 1930 play Private Lives. [1] It is played repeatedly by the hotel orchestra in the play before being sung by the character Amanda and subsequently reprised in Act 2. [2] The song is a waltz and is written in the key of E flat ...
Tonight at 8.30. Tonight at 8.30[ n 1] is a cycle of ten one-act plays by Noël Coward, presented in London in 1936 and in New York in 1936–1937, with the author and Gertrude Lawrence in the leading roles. The plays are mostly comedies, but three, The Astonished Heart, Shadow Play and Still Life, are serious. Four of the comedies include ...