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Episode 46 – Men About Town: Hirschfeld Draws Noël Coward (Online Exhibition) with Alan Pally
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Episode 46 – Men About Town: Hirschfeld Draws Noël Coward (Online Exhibition) with Alan Pally
David sits down with guest curator Alan Pally, a trustee of the Noël Coward Foundation, to discuss our new online exhibition Men About Town: Hirschfeld Draws Noël Coward, now available to view at alhirschfeldfoundation.org/exhibitions
Recorded at The Algonquin Hotel in New York, David and Alan look back at Coward's extraordinary career and the many figures he worked with through Hirschfeld's drawings.
Important Links:
Men About Town: Hirschfeld Draws Noël Coward (Full Exhibition)
About the Noël Coward Foundation
The NY Public Library for the Performing Arts
The Hirschfeld Package at The Algonquin Hotel
Follow along with the show notes to view the works mentioned in this episode:
Nöel Coward
Lillian Gish
Irene Worth
John Gielgud
Barbara Cook
Paula Laurence
Private Lives (Various Productions)
Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne
Gertrude Lawrence
The Red Peppers (from Star!), 1968
Private Lives, 1931
Daniel Massey
Raymond Massey
Laurence Olivier
Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in Private Lives, 1983
Joan Collins in Private Lives, 1992
Maggie Smith and John Standing in Private Lives, 1976