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Ivor Novello (born David Ivor Davies; 15 January 1893 – 6 March 1951) 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).
Most Popular Ivor Novello Trailers
Total trailers found: 30
17 July 1957
1957 BBC Television production of Ivor Novello’s musical featuring Vanessa Lee, reprising the role of Princess Cristiane which she took in the 1949 stage premiere at the Palace Theatre, London.
07 June 1955
Flynn plays the exciled Ruritanian king who leaves his mistress to return home to a political marriage.
06 June 1933
A French sleeping-car attending with an eye for the ladies hooks up with a wealthy widow and they get married.
08 September 1932
An elderly couple's lodger, a British musician (Ivor Novello), becomes the suspect in a series of killings.
19 July 1950
The episodic story of a composer of operettas, Rudi Kleiber, in in old Viennese days, and the two wos
30 May 1929
The rich, amoral Zelie is married to Pierre Boucheron, "The Rat" - but her interest in another man is an open secret.
21 May 1923
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.
24 October 1927
When school captain Roddy Berwick takes the blame for his friend’s scandal, he is expelled and disowned by his family.
09 April 1932
A poor-but-charming father and son try to enter high society by marrying rich English widows.
21 March 1926
Pierre Boucheron, alias 'The Rat' and a former underworld notoriety, is now living the high life as the kept man of Zelie de Chaumet.
22 March 1932
James Parker and Harry Holt are on an expedition in Africa in search of the elephant burial grounds that will provide enough ivory to make them rich.
14 February 1927
London. A mysterious serial killer brutally murders young blond women by stalking them in the night fog.
07 September 1925
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.
29 August 1928
The daughter of an American millionaire falls in love with a Hungarian hussar officer during a visit to the Austrian Empire.
16 July 1930
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.
13 June 1933
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.
01 December 1923
A grief-stricken 18th-century Venetian gentleman is thwarted in love and placed in suspended animation.
01 February 1934
A teacher falls in love with the married owner of the guest house in which she is staying during a holiday to Austria.
28 April 1937
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.
26 June 1921
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.
25 March 1928
A young man is shocked to discover that his fiancé is the mistress of his mother's lover.
20 February 1928
Sanger, an eccentric expatriate composer, dies in his house in the Austrian Alps, leaving his daughters penniless.
01 November 1923
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.
28 February 1941
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.
27 July 1922
A Polish officer posing as a gypsy loves a gypsy girl who is really the count's daughter.
19 October 1920
Miarka is to marry a gypsy chief - whereabouts unknown. She and her tame bear live upon the estate of an old gentleman who tolerates them because of his interest in gypsies, and more particularly because he has a gypsy document which he cannot decipher.
11 November 1937
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.
20 December 1919
An Englishman commits adultery with a Sicilian woman.
07 November 1931
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.
03 August 1928
'Girl reporter and insane fiancé join pirate's descendant in treasure hunt.' (British Film Catalogu)
