Timed to be launched at the beginning of Pride Month, Noël Coward – Mad About the Boy, with Rupert Everett, Alan Cumming and Barnaby Thompson, celebrates the life of one of the greatest queers of our time.
Barnaby Thompson comprehensively chronicles the life and career of the famed actor, playwright, songwriter, director, and flamboyant wit, Noël Coward, best known for writing Brief Encounter, Private Lives, Blythe Spirit, The Vortex, and so much more.
Featuring narration from Alan Cumming and Rupert Everett as the voice of Noël Coward, this charming feature documentary features never-before-seen private home movies of Coward’s global travels, recently discovered in the storage vaults of the Noël Coward Estate, plus rare photography and extensive archive material. The title track is performed by international recording artist Adam Lambert.
Born into poverty, Coward left school at just nine years old. He was queer in a world that was very straight. And yet he became the highest paid writer in the world by the age of thirty.
Noël Coward became one of the most important figures of the 20th century – not only as a world-renowned playwright, songwriter and screenwriter but as a star of both stage and screen. The epitome of self-invention, he even served as a British spy in the Second World War.
The lovely documentary features Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Peter O’Toole, Harold Pinter, Frank Sinatra, Lauren Bacall, Michael Caine and Lucille Ball.
Mad About The Boy – The Noël Coward Story is released in UK and Irish cinemas from 2 June.
