Ivor Novello

Biography

Ivor Novello was one of the most successful Uk composer/performers from the time from the 1920s until his loss of life in 1951. An effective songwriter, composer, playwright, and stage and display screen actor, in Britain he was as mixed and well-known a skill as Noël Coward, although being a playwright his function tended even more toward lighter, even more intimate fare, and used even more archaic forms than Coward’s masterpieces. Given birth to David Ivor Davies in Cardiff, Wales, in 1893, he was the child of David Davies, a authorities recognized, and Clara Novello, a renowned music instructor and chorus innovator. Their son demonstrated an all natural musician, so when a young man was an excellent enough pianist to try out accompaniment at his mother’s rehearsals and in her classes. He was fascinated with the theatre from an early on age aswell, and in his youngsters crossed pathways with such numbers as Adelina Patti and Clara Butt — he was a pageboy in the latter’s wedding ceremony and made up a song that this singer subsequently documented. By age group ten, he’d gained a scholarship or grant to Magdelene University School, Oxford, with 15 he was composing one-act takes on and was an effective songwriter; at 17, he previously a agreement with Boosey & Hawkes web publishers for his function. When he was 18, he visited NY, where he developed his initial full-length stage function, although he discovered little in the form of materials success out of this business, and was eventually forced to come back to Britain. At 20 he was back London and agreed upon a agreement with Ascherberg, Hopwood, & Staff being a songwriter. The outbreak from the First Globe War a season afterwards was to create in movement Novello’s adult profession being a songwriter, as he generated a string of patriotic and morale-boosting tracks which were embraced by the general public, especially “Keep carefully the House Fires Burning up.” By 1916 Novello himself is at uniform like a sub-lieutenant within the Royal Naval Air flow Support, but he held composing tunes, right now for London stage displays. His tunes became shows of a few of the most effective shows of the time, and amid this flurry of stage structure, Novello also discovered room to attempt an acting profession both in Western and Hollywood films, and on-stage in London, and quickly founded himself as a favorite matinee idol. By 1921, he’d prolonged his acting profession to Hollywood. It had been in this same period that he previously his 1st professional connection with Jack port Buchanan, when he made up “And Her Mom Came As well” for him within the stage revue A-to-Z. Novello was similarly known in the us through the 1920s like a composer and display actor, in films like the Bohemian Female, The Light Rose, The Regular Nymph, as well as the Vortex. His most enduringly essential display screen performance, however, is at The Lodger (1926), aimed by Alfred Hitchcock, that was the director’s initial thriller, his initial important film, and his initial hit, and continues to be one of the most well known of United kingdom silent movies. Novello’s main curiosity was the stage, and he was hardly ever willing or in a position to rip himself too much from live movie theater. Amid his songwriting and performing, nevertheless, he was pass on thinly enough through the 1920s in order that he arrived rather late towards the composing of complete displays, which ultimately demonstrated the wellspring for his very best successes. He surfaced, rather all of a sudden, with popular of what had been then severe proportions — 243 shows — in Attractive Night time (1935). The second option presented American-born soprano Mary Ellis, who was simply to become associated with the majority of his function over the following decade. He previously an even larger hit the next 12 months with Careless Rapture, which went for 296 shows, accompanied by a nationwide tour that lasted for a lot of the next calendar year. Novello was the toast of London’s movie theater community, and he occupied an extremely unusual placement socially over the remaining 2 decades of his lifestyle. At that time, homosexuality was a criminal offense which was at the mercy of prosecution in Britain, as well as the theatrical globe was one of the few reputable public strata in Britain that afforded any kind of open up tolerance or safety to the homosexual community, inside the limitations of sensible discretion; figures such as for example Noël Coward and Terence Rattigan, to mention simply two of the greater celebrated theatrical skills of the time, had been officially closeted but comfy within these limitations — but Novello was therefore popular a amount that his intimate orientation was practically an open top secret considerably beyond the rates of movie theater people. Shockingly, nearly heartbreakingly good-looking in his youthful days and also into middle age group, he will make females swoon openly and homosexual men swoon silently being a silent display screen amount, and his fans among the last mentioned included several extremely well-known literary and executing figures of the time (and, it’s been suggested, one or more extremely placed political amount). Novello’s function in his initial two shows have been being a composer, however the Dance Years (1939) brought him back again being a performer alongside Ellis, in that which was among the last great London stage strikes prior to the outbreak of Globe Battle II. The display was virtually a Novello strikes collection, and went 187 performances, closing in Sept of 1939; it had been revived 3 years later on and ran for under 1,000 shows, an extraordinary accomplishment but an understandable one, like a welcome little bit of extremely melodic and comforting nostalgia within the depths from the battle years. It had been also filmed in 1949 by movie director Harold French, with Dennis Cost and Giselle Preville because the two potential clients. These shows had been throwbacks to the type of operetta-based functions that dominated British theatre in the first many years of the 20th hundred years. They were even more Viennese in personality than United kingdom; Novello was section of a custom that encompassed famous brands Franz Lehar and Emmerich Kalman. Arc de Triumphe (1943) was another strike for Novello and Ellis, though it had been never as long lasting, musically or commercially, because the implies that preceded or implemented it. Novello acquired the biggest strike of his profession in 1945 with Perchance to Wish, which went for over 1,000 shows over the following 3 years. This creation was a dual triumph for Novello since it utilized his very own libretto. In 1949, Novello and librettist Christopher Hassall shipped King’s Rhapsody, a Ruritanian love that, furthermore to such operetta-based parts as “The Violin Begun to Play” and “Someday My Heart Will Awake,” included a protracted orchestral showpiece that shown a number of the advancements that acquired overtaken movie theater in the last 10 years. Novello was area of the solid aswell and remained using the display until his unexpected loss of life, from coronary thrombosis, on March 6, 1951. He was changed within the solid by none apart from Jack port Buchanan, for whom he’d created “And Her Mom Came As well” 29 years before. Novello’s reputation and reputation lengthy outlived him, even though his music didn’t withstand for as long — actually during his life time, music was changing quicker than his very own style of composing was changing, and in the years and years after his loss of life the London stage will be transformed with techniques that Novello would scarcely possess recognized. However the Ivor Novello Prize, distributed by the United kingdom Academy of Composers and Songwriters, is becoming one of the most sought after and reputed entertainment honors in Britain, directed at songwriters and arrangers of remarkable merit. Recipients possess included Ian Anderson, Stanley Dark, Lou Reed, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, Justin Hayward, John Lennon and Paul McCartney, Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, Jeff Lynne, Freddie Mercury, David Bowie, Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, and Maurice Gibb, and Joe Meek.

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1	To honor the work and memory of Mr. Novello, since 1956 the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (BASCA), honour and reward excellence in British and Irish songwriting and composing by presenting The Ivor Novello Award. The award has been sponsored by PRS for Music since 1974.
2	On 27th June 2009 a 7' tall bronze statue of Ivor Novello was unveiled near the Millennium Centre in Cardiff Bay, Cardiff, Wales. The statue shows Novello seated at work on a manuscript. It was created by Peter Nicholas, a celebrated Welsh sculptor who lives in Swansea, and was paid for by public subscription. Apart from a plaque on the house where he was born, it is the only memorial to Ivor Novello in the city of his birth. There are various memorials to Ivor in London including a "blue plaque" between the Novello Theatre and the Waldorf Hotel marking the entrance to the flat above the theatre where he lived until his death in 1951. There is a memorial at Golders Green Crematorium where he was cremated, a plaque in St Paul's Church, Covent Garden (the Actors' Church) and a memorial in the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral, London where his ashes were placed.
3	The internationally prestigious "Ivor Novello Awards" are prizes given out annually by the record industry to British publishers, composers and arrangers.
4	Laurence Olivier, Noel Coward and poet/writer Siegfried Sassoon were among his social circle.
5	He was jailed for eight weeks in 1944 for misusing petrol coupons during a WWII rationing period. Some say he never got over the public humiliation.
6	He served in the Royal Naval Air Service during WWI and survived two crash landings.
7	Portrayed by Jeremy Northam in the largely fictional Gosford Park (2001).
8	One of the most famous matinée idols, writers and composers of the British stage during the early part of the 20th century. He played the title role in the first London production of Ferenc Molnar's "Liliom", the Hungarian play from which the American musical "Carousel" was adapted.



Soundtrack

Soundtrack

Title	Year	Status	Character
Altman	2014	Documentary writer: "The Dancing Years"
The Crimson Field	2014	TV Mini-Series music - 1 episode
South Riding	2011	TV Mini-Series music - 1 episode
Upstairs Downstairs	2010	TV Series writer - 1 episode
Atonement	2007	writer: "Keep the Home Fires Burning"
Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War	2002	writer: "WE'LL GATHER LILACS"
Gosford Park	2001	music: "Waltz of My Heart" 1939, "Glamorous Night" 1935, "Nuts in May" 1921, "The Land of Might-Have-Been" 1924, "And Her Mother Came Too" 1921, "I Can Give You the Starlight" 1939, "What a Duke Should Be" 1916, "Why Isn't It You" 1937, "Keep the Home Fires Burning" 1915
Back Home	2001	TV Movie music: "Keep The Home Fires Burning"
Keeping Up Appearances	1991	TV Series writer - 1 episode
The Dressmaker	1988	writer: "We'll Gather Lilacs" - uncredited
1918	1985	writer: "Keep the Home Fires Burning"
A Private Function	1984	music: "Rose of England"
The Duchess of Duke Street	1977	TV Series music - 1 episode
M*A*S*H	1977	TV Series music - 1 episode
Aces High	1976	writer: "Till The Boys Come Home" - uncredited
Upstairs, Downstairs	1974	TV Series music - 2 episodes
Are You Being Served?	1973	TV Series music - 1 episode
Johnny Got His Gun	1971	music: "Keep the Home Fires Burning" - uncredited
Darling Lili	1970	music: "Keep the Home Fires Burning"
Monty Python's Flying Circus	1969	TV Series music - 1 episode
Oh! What a Lovely War	1969	music: "'Till the Boys Come Home", "Keep the Home Fires Burning" - uncredited
Opportunity Knocks	1968	TV Series writer - 1 episode
How I Won the War	1967	music: "Keep the Home Fires Burning" - uncredited
Coronation Street	1964	TV Series writer - 1 episode
Let's Make Up	1954	writer: "Keep the Home Fires Burning Till the Boys Come Home", "We'll Gather Lilacs"
The Magic Box	1951	writer: "Till the Boys Come Home" 1914 - uncredited
Kvartetten som sprängdes	1950	music: "VARJE LITEN TÖS KAN LÄRA MIG NÅT NYTT"
Elizabeth of Ladymead	1948	music: "Keep the Home Fires Burning"
While Nero Fiddled	1944	music: "'Till the Boys Come Home" - uncredited
Variety Jubilee	1943	music: "'Till the Boys Come Home" - uncredited
This Above All	1942	music: "Keep the Home Fires Burning" - uncredited
The First Days	1939	Documentary short music: "Till The Boys Come Home" - uncredited
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle	1939	music: "Keep the Home Fires Burning" - uncredited
Glamorous Night	1937	music: "Glamorous Night", "Shine Through My Dreams", "Fold Your Wings", "When the Gipsy Played", "Gypsy Wedding", "Only Girl", "Far Away in Shanty Town"
The Dark Angel	1935	music: "Keep The Home Fires Burning 'Till the Boys Come Home" 1914 - uncredited
Evensong	1934	music: "Till The Boys Come Home" - uncredited
Cavalcade	1933	music: "Keep the Home Fires Burning" 1915 - uncredited
The Lost Squadron	1932	music: "Keep the Home-Fires Burning 'Till the Boys Come Home" 1914 - uncredited
A Soldier's Plaything	1930	music: "Keep The Home Fires Burning" 1915 - uncredited
Symphony in Two Flats	1930	writer: "Give Me Back My Heart" - uncredited
Elstree Calling	1930	writer: "My Heart is Singing"
Pack Up Your Troubles	1929	Short music: "Keep the Home Fires Burning" - uncredited

Writer

Writer

Title	Year	Status	Character
The Dancing Years	1976	TV Movie play
Musical Playhouse		TV Series original play - 1 episode, 1959 play - 1 episode, 1959
King's Rhapsody	1957	TV Movie play
King's Rhapsody	1955	play
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre	1953	TV Series play - 1 episode
Gay's the Word	1952	TV Movie play
The Dancing Years	1950	play
Free and Easy	1941	play "The Truth Game"
The Rat	1937	play
Glamorous Night	1937	play
I Lived with You	1933	dialogue / play "I Lived With You" / story
The Phantom Fiend	1932	uncredited
-But the Flesh Is Weak	1932	dialogue / play "Truth Game"
Tarzan the Ape Man	1932	dialogue
Symphony in Two Flats	1930	play
The Return of the Rat	1929	play "The Rat"
When Boys Leave Home	1927	as David L'Estrange / play "Down Hill" - uncredited
The Triumph of the Rat	1926	characters
The Rat	1925	play

Actor

Actor

Title	Year	Status	Character
Autumn Crocus	1934		Andreas Steiner
I Lived with You	1933		Prince Felix Lenieff
Sleeping Car	1933		Gaston
The Phantom Fiend	1932		Angeloff
Once a Lady	1931		Bennett Cloud
Symphony in Two Flats	1930		David Kennard
The Return of the Rat	1929		Pierre Boucheron
Der fesche Husar	1928		Lieutenant Stephen Alrik / Feri von Noszty
A South Sea Bubble	1928		Vernon Winslow
The Vortex	1928		Nicky Lancaster
The Constant Nymph	1928		Lewis Dodd
When Boys Leave Home	1927		Roddy Berwick
The Lodger	1927		The Lodger
The Triumph of the Rat	1926		Pierre Boucheron / The Rat
The Rat	1925		Pierre Boucheron
The Man Without Desire	1923		Count Vittorio Dandolo
Bonnie Prince Charlie	1923		Prince Charles Stuart
The White Rose	1923		Joseph Beaugarde
The Bohemian Girl	1922		Thaddeus
Carnival	1921		Count Andrea Scipione
The Call of the Blood	1921		Maurice Delarey
Miarka, the Child of the Bear	1920		Ivor

Composer

Composer

Title	Year	Status	Character
Below the Row	2013	Documentary
Song by Song	1980	TV Series 1 episode
The Dancing Years	1976	TV Movie
Musical Playhouse	1959	TV Series 2 episodes
King's Rhapsody	1955	uncredited
Gay's the Word	1952	TV Movie
Bonnie Prince Charlie	1923

Music Department

Music Department

Title	Year	Status	Character
Song by Song	1980	TV Series lyrics - 1 episode
Musical Playhouse	1959	TV Series lyrics - 1 episode
Alan Melville Takes You from A-Z	1957-1959	TV Series featuring the music of - 2 episodes
The Dancing Years	1950	composer: songs and incidental music
Glamorous Night	1937	composer: songs and incidental music
Elstree Calling	1930	composer: additional music
The Man Without Desire	1923	composer: themes

Producer

Producer

Title	Year	Status	Character
Lovers in Araby	1924	producer
The Man Without Desire	1923	producer

Thanks

Thanks

Title	Year	Status	Character
That's Entertainment, Part II	1976	Documentary acknowledgment: the non-musical sequences represent outstanding contributions by

Self

Self

Title	Year	Status	Character
Starlight	1937	TV Series	Himself - Performer

Archive Footage

Archive Footage

Title	Year	Status	Character
Welsh Greats	2010	TV Series documentary	Himself
Paul Merton Looks at Alfred Hitchcock	2009	TV Movie documentary	The Lodger (uncredited)
Muchachada nui	2008	TV Series	Alejandro
Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood	1995	TV Mini-Series documentary	The Lodger

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