New UK Trailer For Mad About The Boy: The Noël Coward Story

Altitude Films have released a new UK Trailer for Mad About The Boy: The Noël Coward Story.

Written and directed by Barnaby Thompson (Pixie, St Trinians), comprehensively chronicles the life and career of the famed playwright, director, and flamboyant wit. Featuring never seen before 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 film is narrated by Alan Cumming and with Rupert Everett as the voice of Noël Coward…

Noël Coward grew up in poverty and left school when he was only nine years old. He was queer in a very straight world. And yet by the age of 30, he was the highest paid writer in the world, and a star on the Broadway stage.

One of the most important figures of the 20th Century. Noël Coward wrote, directed and acted in some of the finest plays and movies of all time, including Private Lives, Blithe Spirit, Brief Encounter and In Which We Serve, also discovering great talents such as John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier and David Lean. He became a world renowned songwriter and performer, of whom Frank Sinatra said, ‘If you want to hear how a song should be sung, go see Mr Noël Coward’.

Even becoming a British spy in the Second World War, against all odds, Noël Coward became the most successful multi-talented artist of the Twentieth Century. He was the epitome of self-invention and defied convention to invent the modern Englishman. This is his inspirational story told in his own words and music, and unique home movies.

The film 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 will be released in cinemas across the UK and Ireland on 2nd June.