Brief Encounter
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Brief Encounter is a 1945 British romantic tragedy film directed by David Lean from a screenplay by Noël Coward, based on his 1936 one-act play Still Life. The film stars Celia Johnson and Trevor Howa
Theatrical release poster
Laura (Celia Johnson) and Alec (Trevor Howard) say their penultimate goodbyes at the railway station
Jenny Seagrove and Nigel Havers rehearsing
Noël Coward
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Sir Noël Peirce Coward was an English playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chi
Brief Encounter
…Brief Encounter is a 1945 British romantic tragedy film directed by David Lean from a screenplay by Noël Coward, based on his 1936 one-act play Still Life. The film stars Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard in lead roles, alongside Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey, Cyril…
Coward in 1972
Coward (left) with Lydia Bilbrook and Charles Hawtrey, 1911
Coward in his early teens (ca. 1914)
Coward in The Knight of the Burning Pestle in 1920