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Ivor Novello
Ivor Novello was a Welsh actor, dramatist, singer and composer who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the first half of the 20th century. He was born into a musical family, and his first successes were as a songwriter. His first big hit was "Keep the Home Fires Burning", which was enormously popular during the First World War. His 1917 show, Theodore & Co, was a wartime hit. After the war, Novello contributed numbers to several successful musical comedies and was eventually commissioned to write the scores of complete shows. He wrote his musicals in the style of operetta and often composed his music to the libretti of Christopher Hassall. In the 1920s he turned to acting, first in British films and then on stage, with considerable success in both. He starred in two silent films directed by Alfred Hitchcock, The Lodger and Downhill. On stage, he played the title character in the first London production of Liliom. Novello briefly went to Hollywood but soon returned to Britain, where he had more successes, especially on stage, appearing in his own lavish West End productions of musicals. The best-known of these were Glamorous Night and The Dancing Years. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivor_Novello) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode)
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Glamorous Night
Album • 2024
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My Life Belongs to You
Album • 2023
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Glamorous Nights
Album • 2021
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My Life Belongs to You
Album • 2021
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We'll Gather Lilacs
Album • 2021
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Music in May
Album • 2021
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The Musicality of Novello
Album • 2019
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The Entertainer
Album • 2013
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Gay's the Word (Original 2012 London Cast)
Album • 2013
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King's Rhapsody / The Dancing Years
Album • 2012
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The Land of Might-Have-Been - Novello/Marsh
nocturon • 253K views
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I Can Give You the Starlight - Novello / Hassall
nocturon • 148K views
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waltz of my heart [Novello ; Soundtrack ~ Gosford Park ] ]
Sonnenblume0503 • 15K views
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Ivor Novello "I Can Give You The Starlight" Vanessa Lee
Ivor Novello • 132K views
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And Her Mother Came Too (Harold Lloyd)
JaguarJedi22 • 13K views
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Ivor Novello: Keep The Home Fires Burning - BBC Proms 2012
BBC • 143K views
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Ivor Novello "Waltz of my Heart" Vanessa Lee
Ivor Novello • 75K views
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The Land of Might-Have-Been - "Gosford Park" - Maggie Smith
Veronique Laurent • 56K views
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Ivor Novello "Glamorous Night" Vanessa Lee & The Williams Singers
Ivor Novello • 61K views