Ivor Novello
Nacimiento : 1893-01-15, Cardiff, Wales, UK
Muerte : 1951-03-06
Historia
Ivor Novello (born David Ivor Davies) was a Welsh composer and actor who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the first half of the 20th century, on both screen and stage.
He was born into a musical Cardiff family and his mother, Clara Novello Davies, was an internationally known singing teacher and choral conductor. As a child, Novello was a successful singer in various eisteddfodau throughout the country. He was educated privately in Cardiff and then in Gloucester and later won a scholarship to Magdalen College School in Oxford.
The family moved to London in 1913 and here Novello's career flourished. In 1914, at the start of World War II, he wrote the words to his most popular song, "Keep the Home Fires Burning".
Novello lived in a flat above the Strand Theatre, where he remained until his death in 1951.
Since 1955 the internationally prestigious The Ivor Novello Awards ("The Ivors") for songwriting and composing are annually awarded by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (BASCA).
Writer
Ricardo, heredero del trono de Laurentia, elige el exilio para poder vivir con la mujer que ama, Marta Karillos. Sin embargo, cuando siete años después muere el rey, su padre, decide regresar para recuperar el trono. Para ello, deberá aceptar un matrimonio de conveniencia con la princesa Cristiane.
Theatre Play
The episodic story of a composer of operettas, Rudi Kleiber, in in old Viennese days, and the two women in his life; Maria Zeitler, his sweetheart, later mistress, lost love, an operetta star, and his first patron, and the mother of a son he did not know he had; and of Greta, his first love and companion in later years
Theatre Play
This MGM B-picture was adapted from Ivor Novello's play The Truth Game. Max and Florian Clemington pretend to be members of the landed gentry. Max romances the much-older Lady Joan Culver before finding true love in the form of pretty heiress Martha Gray.
Theatre Play
Jean Boucheron the cat burglar is the darling of the Montmartre whores--and catches the eye of slumming socialite Zelia de Chaumont, who decides to "reform" him. A complication is his lovely young ward Odile... murder and a grand courtoom scene ensue.
Theatre Play
Based on Ivor Novello's hit stage play: an opera singer and her gypsy friends try to rescue their king from the clutches of a would-be dictator.
Andreas Steiner
A teacher falls in love with the married owner of the guest house in which she is staying during a holiday to Austria.
Theatre Play
In London a young lady meets a homeless and apparently penniless Russian prince. She introduces him to her middle-class Fulham family and he moves in. It turns out he still has a number of diamonds given him by the last czar, and he is persuaded to start selling them. The resulting money, and his princely notoriety, soon cause changes in everyone's lives.
Prince Felix Lenieff
In London a young lady meets a homeless and apparently penniless Russian prince. She introduces him to her middle-class Fulham family and he moves in. It turns out he still has a number of diamonds given him by the last czar, and he is persuaded to start selling them. The resulting money, and his princely notoriety, soon cause changes in everyone's lives.
Gaston
Un coche cama francés que asiste con un ojo para las damas se engancha con una viuda adinerada y se casan. Lo que no sabe es que ella se casó con él porque quiere quedarse en Francia. Sobrevienen complicaciones.
Michel Angeloff
An elderly couple's lodger, a British musician (Ivor Novello), becomes the suspect in a series of killings.
Writer
Los Clement viven gracias a la generosidad de una rica mujer. Max, el hijo, se fija en Lady Joan, una rica mujer con los pies en la tierra y encantadora. En su casa conoce a Rosine Brown, una viuda austriaca. Max se encaprichará con ella y la perseguirá hasta que ella ceda y se case con él. Sin embargo, el padre de Max pierde 4.500 libras jugando, por lo que Max pretenderá casarse con Joan para evitar que lo metan en la cárcel.
Theatre Play
Los Clement viven gracias a la generosidad de una rica mujer. Max, el hijo, se fija en Lady Joan, una rica mujer con los pies en la tierra y encantadora. En su casa conoce a Rosine Brown, una viuda austriaca. Max se encaprichará con ella y la perseguirá hasta que ella ceda y se case con él. Sin embargo, el padre de Max pierde 4.500 libras jugando, por lo que Max pretenderá casarse con Joan para evitar que lo metan en la cárcel.
Dialogue
James Parker y Harry Holt organizan una expedición a África para hallar un cementerio de elefantes que les proporcione el suficiente marfil para hacerse ricos. La bella hija de Parker, Jane, se une a ellos de forma inesperada y despierta una atracción inmediata en Harry. Pero un hombre mono llamado Tarzán y sus amigos simios secuestran a la chica.
Bennett Cloud
A young Russian woman marries a wealthy Englishman, and has a daughter with him. After she has an affair with one of his friends, she is forced to leave Britain and moves to Paris. Many years later, her daughter approaches her, needing her help.
David Kennard
A young composer goes blind, and shortly afterward enters his most recent work in a competition. He believes he's won, but doesn't know that his wife couldn't bear to tell him that he didn't. Complications ensue.
Theatre Play
A young composer goes blind, and shortly afterward enters his most recent work in a competition. He believes he's won, but doesn't know that his wife couldn't bear to tell him that he didn't. Complications ensue.
Theatre Play
The rich, amoral Zelie is married to Pierre Boucheron, "The Rat" - but her interest in another man is an open secret. Forced to defend his honour, the Rat takes refuge in his old domain of the Paris underworld. But even here he has a rival - and when murder is afoot, the sinister Morel's ambition threatens to cost the Rat dear....
Pierre Boucheron
The rich, amoral Zelie is married to Pierre Boucheron, "The Rat" - but her interest in another man is an open secret. Forced to defend his honour, the Rat takes refuge in his old domain of the Paris underworld. But even here he has a rival - and when murder is afoot, the sinister Morel's ambition threatens to cost the Rat dear....
Lieutenant Stephen Alrik / Feri von Noszty
Nicky Lancaster
A young man is shocked to discover that his fiancé is the mistress of his mother's lover.
Lewis Dodd
Sanger, an eccentric expatriate composer, dies in his house in the Austrian Alps, leaving his daughters penniless. The young composer Lewis Dodd, a longstanding friend of the family, falls in love with their cousin Florence when she comes to take the girls back to England. But little Tessa Sanger is in love with Lewis herself, and when she runs away from school and comes to live with Florence and her husband, their already-shaky marriage is further undermined
Roddy Berwick
Roddy (Ivor Novello), primogénito de la rica familia Berwick, es expulsado del instituto acusado de haber ultrajado a una mujer y su padre le repudia. Entonces decide ir a París donde se gasta el último dinero que le queda y comienza a trabajar como bailarín.
Original Story
Roddy (Ivor Novello), primogénito de la rica familia Berwick, es expulsado del instituto acusado de haber ultrajado a una mujer y su padre le repudia. Entonces decide ir a París donde se gasta el último dinero que le queda y comienza a trabajar como bailarín.
The Lodger Jonathan Drew
Londres. Un misterioso asesino en serie mata brutalmente a jóvenes mujeres rubias amparado por la niebla nocturna. Una neblinosa y siniestra noche, un joven que dice llamarse Jonathan Drew llega a la casa de huéspedes de los Bunting y alquila un cuarto.
Pierre Boucheron, 'the Rat'
Pierre Boucheron, alias 'The Rat' and a former underworld notoriety, is now living the high life as the kept man of Zelie de Chaumet. But when she learns he is planning to marry another woman, her vengeance pursues him into the murkiest depths of Paris...
Pierre Boucheron
When bored courtesan Zelie de Chaumet begs her lover, the corrupt and powerful Stetz, to take her slumming, the pair encounter Pierre Boucheron, alias 'The Rat' , boy-king of the Paris underworld, and the innocent Odile. Love, life and jewels are risked and lost in this powerful romantic melodrama as the four characters' lives are changed by this chance encounter for ever.
Writer
When bored courtesan Zelie de Chaumet begs her lover, the corrupt and powerful Stetz, to take her slumming, the pair encounter Pierre Boucheron, alias 'The Rat' , boy-king of the Paris underworld, and the innocent Odile. Love, life and jewels are risked and lost in this powerful romantic melodrama as the four characters' lives are changed by this chance encounter for ever.
Count Vittorio Dandolo
A doctor suspends the life of a mourning lover and he is revived 200 years later.
Producer
A doctor suspends the life of a mourning lover and he is revived 200 years later.
Prince Charles Stuart
In the Jacobite Rising of 1745, the Young Pretender Bonnie Prince Charlie leads an insurrection to overthrow the Protestant House of Hanover and restore his family, the Catholic branch of the House of Stuart, to the British throne.
Music
In the Jacobite Rising of 1745, the Young Pretender Bonnie Prince Charlie leads an insurrection to overthrow the Protestant House of Hanover and restore his family, the Catholic branch of the House of Stuart, to the British throne.
Joseph
A wealthy young Southern aristocrat, Joseph, graduates from a seminary and, before he takes charge of his assigned parish, decides to go out and see what "the real world" is all about. He winds up in New Orleans and finds himself attracted to a poor, unsophisticated orphan girl, Bessie. One thing leads to another, and before long Bessie finds that she is pregnant with Joseph's child.
Thaddeus
A Polish officer posing as a gypsy loves a gypsy girl who is really the count's daughter.
Count Andrea Scipione
An actor playing Othello in a stage production of Shakespeare's play becomes jealous of his wife's supposed infidelity and seems bound to kill her in the scene in which she, enacting Othello's falsely accused wife Desdemona, is murdered by her jealous husband.
