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Occupation
  
Actor, composer

Years active
  
1914–1951


Name
  
Ivor Novello

Role
  
Composer

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Full Name
  
David Ivor Davies

Born
  
15 January 1893 (
1893-01-15
)
Cardiff, Wales

Partner(s)
  
Bobbie Andrews (1916–51; his death)

Died
  
March 6, 1951, London, United Kingdom

Movies
  
The Lodger: A Story of th, Downhill, The Rat, I Lived with You, The Lodger

Ivor novello 1893 1951 welsh song writer composer and actor


Ivor Novello (15 January 1893 – 6 March 1951), 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.

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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" (1914), 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 librettos of Christopher Hassall.

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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 (both 1927). On stage, he played the title character in the first London production of Liliom (1926). Novello briefly went to Hollywood, but he 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 (1935) and The Dancing Years (1939). From the 1930s, he often performed with Zena Dare, writing parts for her in his works. He continued to write for film, but he had his biggest late successes with stage musicals: Perchance to Dream (1945), King's Rhapsody (1949) and Gay's the Word (1951).

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Early years

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Novello was born in Cardiff, Wales, to David Davies (c. 1852–1931), a rent collector for the city council, and his wife, Clara Novello Davies, an internationally known singing teacher and choral conductor. As a boy, Novello was a successful singer in the Welsh Eisteddfod. His mother set up as voice teacher in London, where he met leading performers, including members of George Edwardes's Gaiety Theatre company, classical musicians such as Landon Ronald, and singers such as Adelina Patti. Another of his mother's associates was Clara Butt, who taught him to sing "Abide with Me" when he was a boy of six.

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Novello was educated privately in Cardiff and then in Gloucester, where he studied harmony and counterpoint with Herbert Brewer, the cathedral organist. From there he won a scholarship to Magdalen College School in Oxford, where he was a solo treble in the college choir. He later said that this prolonged youthful exposure to early sacred choral music had turned his tastes, in reaction, to lush romantic music. Although Brewer had told him he would not have a career in music, Novello from his early youth showed a facility for writing songs, and when he was only 15, one of his songs was published. After leaving school, he gave piano lessons in Cardiff, and then moved to London in 1913 with his mother. They took a flat above the Strand Theatre, which became his London home for the rest of his life.

In London he found a mentor in Sir Edward Marsh, a well-known patron of the arts. Marsh encouraged him to compose and introduced him to people who could help his career. He adopted part of his mother's maiden name, "Novello" as his professional surname, although he did not change it legally until 1927.

In 1914, at the start of the First World War, Novello wrote "Keep the Home Fires Burning", a song that expressed the feelings of innumerable families sundered by World War I. Novello composed the music for the song to a lyric by the American Lena Guilbert Ford, and it became a huge popular success, bringing Novello money and fame at the age of 21. In other respects, the war had less impact on Novello than on many young men of his age. He avoided enlistment until June 1916, when he reported to a Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) training depot as a probationary flight sub-lieutenant. After twice crashing an aeroplane, and with the influence of Marsh, he was moved to the Air Ministry office in central London performing clerical duties for the duration of the war.

Composer and actor

Novello continued to write songs while serving in the RNAS. He had his first stage success with Theodore & Co in 1916, a production by George Grossmith, Jr. and Edward Laurillard with a score composed by Novello and the young Jerome Kern. In the same year, Novello contributed to André Charlot's revue See-Saw. In 1917 he wrote for another Grossmith and Laurillard production, the operette Arlette, for which he contributed additional numbers to an existing French score by Jane Vieu and Guy le Feuvre. In the same year, Marsh introduced him to the actor Bobbie Andrews, who became Novello's life partner. Andrews introduced Novello to the young Noël Coward. Coward, six years Novello's junior, was deeply envious of Novello's effortless glamour. He wrote, "I just felt suddenly conscious of the long way I had to go before I could break into the magic atmosphere in which he moved and breathed with such nonchalance".

In 1918 and after the war, Novello continued to write successfully for musical comedy and revue. The former included Who's Hooper? (1919), an adaptation of a Pinero play, with a book by Fred Thompson, lyrics by Clifford Grey, and music by Howard Talbot and Novello, and The Golden Moth by Thompson and P.G. Wodehouse (1921), for which Novello provided the entire score. For Charlot, he contributed numbers to the revues Tabs (1918), A to Z (1921) and Puppets (1924). For the second of these, his songs included one of his few well-known comedy numbers, "And her mother came too", with lyrics by Dion Titheradge, written for Jack Buchanan.

At the same time as his successes as a composer, Novello was making a career as an actor. With "a classic profile that gained him matinee idol status amongst the film-going public", he was sought out, on the strength of a publicity photograph, by the Swiss film director Louis Mercanton. Mercanton offered him a silent-film role as the romantic lead in The Call of the Blood (1920). In the same year, he made another film for Mercanton, Miarka. Novello made his first English film, Carnival, the following year.

Novello made his stage debut in 1921 in Deburau by Sacha Guitry with Robert Loraine, Madge Titheradge and Bobbie Andrews, and, among other stage engagements, in the next years he played Bingley in an adaptation of Pride and Prejudice with Ben Webster as Darcy and Mary Jerrold as Elizabeth, in a cast that included Ellen Terry, May Whitty and Joyce Carey. At about this time, Novello had an affair with the writer Siegfried Sassoon; it was short lived, but in the words of Sassoon's biographer John Stuart Roberts, Novello "was a consummate flirt who collected lovers as he gathered lilacs."

In 1923, Novello made his American movie debut in D. W. Griffith's The White Rose. The same year, he starred in "The Man Without Desire", among other British films. He next co-wrote, produced and starred in the successful 1924 play The Rat. The play was made into a film in 1925, which was so successful that two sequels followed in 1926 and 1928. His dramatic roles in the West End included the title character in the first London production of Ferenc Molnár's Liliom (1926).

Other films in which Novello starred included Alfred Hitchcock's The Lodger, where he played the sinister title character, and Downhill (both in 1927). The British film company Gainsborough Pictures offered Novello a lucrative contract, which enabled him to buy a country house in Littlewick Green, near Maidenhead. He renamed the property Redroofs, and he entertained there famously and with little regard for convention. Cecil Beaton, noting the frequent homosexual excesses, coined the phrase, "the Ivor/Noel naughty set". Coward had by now caught Novello up professionally, despite a joint disaster when Novello starred in Coward's play Sirocco in 1927, which was a débâcle, and closed within a month of opening. In 1928 Novello starred in the silent adaptation of Coward's much more successful The Vortex, and made his last silent film, A South Sea Bubble. During the late 1920s, Novello was the most popular male star in British films.

Novello returned to composing for the lyric stage in 1929, writing eight numbers for the revue The House that Jack Built. In the same year, he presented his own play Symphony in Two Flats, which he took to New York the following year. It was followed by a successful Broadway production of his The Truth Game, which brought him to the attention of Hollywood studios. He accepted a contract to write for and appear in MGM films. He found little to do in Hollywood, however, beyond writing the dialogue for Tarzan the Ape Man. Returning to London, he starred in the sound remake of The Lodger (1932).

1930s musicals

After beginning the 1930s with a series of non-musical plays, I Lived With You (1932), Fresh Fields, Proscenium, Sunshine Sisters, Flies in the Sun (all 1933) and Murder in Mayfair (1934), Novello returned to composition in 1935 with Glamorous Night, which was the first of a series of enormously popular musicals. The Times considered that it was for these that Novello would be popularly remembered. Paul Webb, in the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, writes that Novello's show saved the fortunes of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane:

Dominating the British musical theatre from the mid-1930s to the early 1950s, his shows were heavily influenced by the operettas that he had grown up with (he saw Die lustige Witwe 27 times), but had a highly individual style of their own. Blending musicals with opera, operetta and both modern and classical dance, these shows were considered something of an anachronism in their own time, but that was part of their appeal.

Another model was Coward's 1929 musical Bitter Sweet, which Novello called "a lovely, lovely thing … sheer joy from beginning to end". That, too, was an old-fashioned musical, "so full of regret … for a vanished kindly silly darling age."

For all his four 1930s musicals, Novello wrote the book and music, Christopher Hassall wrote the lyrics, and the orchestrations were by Charles Prentice. Glamorous Night starred Novello and Mary Ellis, with a cast including Zena Dare, Olive Gilbert and Elizabeth Welch, and ran from 2 May 1935 to 18 July 1936, at Drury Lane and then the London Coliseum. Careless Rapture ran from 11 September 1936 for 296 performances, with Novello, Dorothy Dickson and Zena Dare in the leading roles. Crest of the Wave starred Novello, Dickson and Gilbert, and ran from 1 September 1937 for 203 performances. The last of Novello's pre-war musicals was The Dancing Years, which starred Novello, Ellis and Gilbert, opened at Drury Lane, closed on the outbreak of the Second World War, and re-opened at the Adelphi Theatre, running for a combined total of 696 performances, closing on 8 July 1944. This show was the closest Novello came to fulfilling his mother's early ambitions for him to write operas; he played an Austrian composer-conductor at the Wiener Hofoper.

Second World War and last years

Novello presented only two new shows during the Second World War. Arc de Triomphe (1943), a musical vehicle for Mary Ellis, was only a modest success, but Perchance to Dream (1945) was immensely successful, running for 1,022 performances. In between the two shows, Novello had been in serious legal trouble and served four weeks in prison for misuse of petrol coupons, a serious offence under rationing laws in wartime Britain. An admiring fan had stolen the coupons from her employer, but the court found that Novello was also culpable. The prison term, though short, came as a severe shock to Novello, both mentally and physically, and had serious lasting effects. Not everybody was supportive; Coward's sympathy was limited: "He's been fighting like a steer to keep going as before the war and hasn't done a thing for the general effort", but when Novello returned to The Dancing Years after his release, he received "a rapturous ovation" on his first entrance.

Novello's last full-scale production in this style, King's Rhapsody (1949), was, in Webb's words, "a selfconsciously romantic counter-blast to the modern musical: crown princes, ballrooms, royal yachts, beautiful princesses and a full-scale coronation". After the rigours of war, this escapist entertainment had strong box-office appeal, and ran for 841 performances. The show starred Novello and the cast included Phyllis Dare, Zena Dare, Olive Gilbert and Bobbie Andrews. It was still running, at the Palace Theatre, when Novello's last show opened. This was Gay's the Word (1951). Novello had written no role for himself; the show starred the comedy actress Cicely Courtneidge and was a departure from his established pattern, balancing the contrasting styles of European operetta and post-war American musicals. The Times commented that the show "cheerfully parodied the very Ruritanian romances to which he owed his most triumphant successes."

Death and legacy

Novello died suddenly from a coronary thrombosis at the age of 58, a few hours after completing a performance in the run of King's Rhapsody. He was cremated at the Golders Green Crematorium, and his ashes are buried beneath a lilac bush and marked with a plaque that reads "Ivor Novello 6th March 1951 'Till you are home once more'." He left an estate worth £160,000 (£4.53 million when adjusted for inflation).

Only a few weeks before Novello's death, Coward had written of him: "Theatre – good, bad and indifferent – is the love of his life. For him, other human endeavours are mere shadows. … The reward of his work lies in the indisputable fact that whenever and wherever he appears the vast majority of the British public flock to see him." Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians writes of Novello that he was "until the advent of Andrew Lloyd Webber, the 20th-century's most consistently successful composer of British musicals."

The Ivor Novello Awards for songwriting, established in 1955 in Novello's memory, are awarded each year by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (BASCA) to British songwriters and composers as well as to an outstanding international music writer. A scholarship in memory of Novello was established at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and in 1952 a bronze bust of him by Clemence Dane was unveiled at Drury Lane. In St. Paul's, Covent Garden, known as the actors' church, a panel was installed to commemorate Novello, and in 1972, to mark the 21st anniversary of his death, a memorial stone was unveiled in St. Paul's Cathedral.

In 1993, the centenary of Novello's birth was marked by several celebratory shows around the UK, including one at the Players Theatre in London. In 2005, the Strand Theatre, above which Novello lived for many years, was renamed the Novello Theatre, with a plaque in his honour set at the entrance. On 27 June 2009, a statue of Novello was unveiled outside the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff Bay. Plaques detailing some of his best-known songs are fitted to the pedestal, along with a dedication to Novello. Novello's memory is promoted by The Ivor Novello Appreciation Bureau, which holds annual events around Britain, including an annual pilgrimage to Redroofs each June. Redroofs was sold after Novello's death and is now a theatre training school.

Novello was portrayed in Robert Altman's 2001 film, Gosford Park, by Jeremy Northam, and several of his songs were used for the film's soundtrack, including "Waltz of My Heart", "And Her Mother Came Too", "I Can Give You the Starlight", "What a Duke Should Be", "Why Isn't It You?" and "The Land of Might-Have-Been".

Songs

Among Novello's well-known songs are "Keep the Home Fires Burning", "Fold Your Wings", "Shine Through My Dreams", "Rose of England", "I Can Give You the Starlight", "And Her Mother Came Too", "My Dearest Dear", "The Land of Might-Have-Been", "When I Curtsied to the King", "We'll Gather Lilacs", "Someday My Heart Will Awake", "Yesterday", "Waltz of My Heart", "Why Isn't It You", "My Life Belongs to You", "Fly Home Little Heart", "Take Your Girl" and "Primrose".

In Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Webb writes that although Novello's oeuvre is generally thought of as "romantic" and "Ruritanian", his music "was far more varied than his current reputation suggests." Webb contends that such romantic hits as "Someday My Heart Will Awake" were balanced by "rousing operetta choruses ... and jazz age numbers" while "'Rose of England' is a stately patriotic piece that stands comparison with Elgar or Walton".

Filmography

Writer
1976
The Dancing Years (TV Movie) (play)
-
Musical Playhouse (TV Series) (original play - 1 episode, 1959) (play - 1 episode, 1959)
- Perchance to Dream (1959) - (original play)
- The Dancing Years (1959) - (play)
1957
King's Rhapsody (TV Movie) (play)
1955
King's Rhapsody (play)
1953
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) (play - 1 episode)
- Full House (1953) - (play)
1952
Gay's the Word (TV Movie) (play)
1950
The Dancing Years (based on the play devised by) / (based on the play written by)
1948
Kraft Theatre (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
- The Truth Game (1948) - (story)
1941
Free and Easy (play "The Truth Game")
1937
The Rat (play)
1937
Glamorous Night (play)
1933
I Lived with You (dialogue) / (play "I Lived with You" - uncredited) / (story)
1932
The Phantom Fiend (uncredited)
1932
-But the Flesh Is Weak (dialogue) / (play "Truth Game")
1932
Tarzan the Ape Man (dialogue)
1930
Symphony in Two Flats (play)
1929
The Return of the Rat (play "The Rat")
1927
When Boys Leave Home (as David L'Estrange) / (play "Down Hill" - uncredited)
1926
The Triumph of the Rat (characters)
1925
The Rat (play)
Actor
1934
Autumn Crocus as
Andreas Steiner
1933
Sleeping Car as
Gaston Bray
1933
I Lived with You as
Prince Felix Lenieff
1932
The Phantom Fiend as
Angeloff
1931
Once a Lady as
Bennett Cloud
1930
Symphony in Two Flats as
David Kennard
1929
The Return of the Rat as
Pierre Boucheron
1928
Der fesche Husar as
Lieutenant Stephen Alrik / Feri von Noszty
1928
A South Sea Bubble as
Vernon Winslow
1928
The Vortex as
Nicky Lancaster
1928
The Constant Nymph as
Lewis Dodd
1927
When Boys Leave Home as
Roddy Berwick
1927
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog as
The Lodger
1926
The Triumph of the Rat as
Pierre Boucheron / The Rat
1925
The Rat as
Pierre Boucheron
1923
The Man Without Desire as
Count Vittorio Dandolo
1923
Bonnie Prince Charlie as
Prince Charles Stuart
1923
The White Rose as
Joseph Beaugarde
1922
The Bohemian Girl as
Thaddeus
1921
Carnival as
Count Andrea Scipione
1921
The Call of the Blood as
Maurice Delarey
1920
Miarka, the Child of the Bear as
Ivor
Music Department
1980
Song by Song (TV Series) (lyrics - 1 episode)
- By British Lyricists (1980) - (lyrics)
1959
Musical Playhouse (TV Series) (lyrics - 1 episode)
- Perchance to Dream (1959) - (lyrics)
1957
Alan Melville Takes You from A-Z (TV Series) (featuring the music of - 2 episodes)
- I (1959) - (featuring the music of)
- N (1957) - (featuring the music of)
1955
King's Rhapsody (music and lyrics by - uncredited)
1950
The Dancing Years (based on the play composed by) / (composer: songs and incidental music - uncredited)
1937
Glamorous Night (music by)
1930
Elstree Calling (composer: additional music)
1923
The Man Without Desire (composer: themes)
Soundtrack
2016
WatchMojo (TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
- Top 10 Most Terrifying Music Videos (2016) - (music: "Keep the Home Fires Burning")
2016
Father Brown (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- The Brewer's Daughter (2016) - (writer: "I Can Give You the Starlight" - uncredited)
2014
Altman (Documentary) (writer: "The Dancing Years")
2014
The Crimson Field (TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
- Episode #1.5 (2014) - (music: "Keep the Home Fires Burning" - uncredited)
2011
South Riding (TV Mini Series) (music - 1 episode)
- Episode #1.1 (2011) - (music: "Keep the Home Fires Burning" - uncredited)
2010
Upstairs Downstairs (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- The Ladybird (2010) - (writer: "We'll Gather Lilacs" - uncredited)
2007
Atonement (writer: "Keep the Home Fires Burning")
2002
Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War (writer: "WE'LL GATHER LILACS")
2001
Gosford Park (music: "Waltz of My Heart", "Glamorous Night", "Nuts in May", "The Land of Might-Have-Been", "And Her Mother Came Too", "I Can Give You the Starlight", "What a Duke Should Be?", "Why Isn't It You", "Keep the Home Fires Burning" (1915))
2001
Back Home (TV Movie) (music: "Keep The Home Fires Burning")
1994
And We Knew How to Dance: Women in World War I (Documentary) (music: "Keep the Home Fires Burning")
1991
Keeping Up Appearances (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- The Candlelight Supper (1991) - (writer: "Rose of England" - uncredited)
1988
The Dressmaker (writer: "We'll Gather Lilacs" - uncredited)
1985
1918 (writer: "Keep the Home Fires Burning")
1984
A Private Function (music: "Rose of England")
1977
The Duchess of Duke Street (TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
- Shadows (1977) - (music: "Keep the Home Fires Burning" - uncredited)
1977
M*A*S*H (TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
- War of Nerves (1977) - (music: "Keep the Home Fires Burning ('Till the Boys Come Home)")
1977
Top of the Pops (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Episode #14.19 (1977) - (writer: "We'll Gather Lilacs - All My Loving (Medley)")
1976
Aces High (writer: "Till The Boys Come Home" - uncredited)
1974
Upstairs, Downstairs (TV Series) (music - 2 episodes)
- Another Year (1974) - (music: "Keep the Home fires Burning" - uncredited)
- Women Shall Not Weep (1974) - (music: "Keep the Home Fires Burning' - uncredited)
1973
Are You Being Served? (TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
- Camping In (1973) - (music: "Keep The Home Fires Burning")
1972
The Liver Birds (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- The Parrot (1972) - (writer: "We'll Gather Lilacs" - uncredited)
1971
Johnny Got His Gun (music: "Keep the Home Fires Burning" - uncredited)
-
Monty Python's Flying Circus (TV Series) (music - 2 episodes, 1969 - 1970) (writer - 1 episode, 1970)
- Spam (1970) - (writer: "Keep the Home Fires Burning ('Till the Boys Come Home)" - uncredited)
- Live from the Grill-o-Mat (1970) - (music: "Keep the Home Fires Burning" - uncredited)
- The BBC Entry for the Zinc Stoat of Budapest (or, It's the Arts) (1969) - (music: "Gay's the Word" - uncredited)
1970
Darling Lili (music: "Keep the Home Fires Burning")
1969
Oh! What a Lovely War (music: "'Till the Boys Come Home", "Keep the Home Fires Burning" - uncredited)
1968
Opportunity Knocks (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- All Winners Show 1968 (1968) - (writer: "Take Your Girl")
1967
How I Won the War (music: "Keep the Home Fires Burning" - uncredited)
1965
Toehold in History (Short) (writer: "Keep The Home Fires Burning")
1964
Coronation Street (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Episode #1.391 (1964) - (writer: "Keep the Home Fires Burning ('Till the Boys Come Home)" - uncredited)
1960
The Arthur Haynes Show (TV Series) (writer - 2 episodes)
- Episode #7.6 (1961) - (writer: "My Dearest Dear")
- Episode #6.9 (1960) - (writer: "Among My Souvenirs/A Fine Romance/They Didn't Believe Me/When You Wore a Tulip and I Wore a Big Red Rose/Someday My Heart Will Awake" (medley))
1954
Let's Make Up (writer: "Keep the Home Fires Burning (Till the Boys Come Home)", "We'll Gather Lilacs")
1951
The Magic Box (writer: "Till the Boys Come Home" (1914) - uncredited)
1950
Kvartetten som sprängdes (music: "VARJE LITEN TÖS KAN LÄRA MIG NÅT NYTT")
1948
Elizabeth of Ladymead (music: "Keep the Home Fires Burning") / (writer: "Keep The Home Fires Burning" - uncredited)
1944
While Nero Fiddled (music: "'Till the Boys Come Home" - uncredited)
1944
Wilson (music: "Keep The Home Fires Burning")
1943
Variety Jubilee (music: "'Till the Boys Come Home" - uncredited)
1942
This Above All (music: "Keep the Home Fires Burning" - uncredited)
1939
The First Days (Documentary short) (music: "Till The Boys Come Home" - uncredited)
1939
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (music: "Keep the Home Fires Burning" - uncredited)
1937
Dangerous Secrets (writer: "Keep the Home-Fires Burning (Till the Boys Come Home)" - uncredited)
1937
Glamorous Night (music: "Glamorous Night", "Shine Through My Dreams", "Fold Your Wings", "When the Gipsy Played", "Gypsy Wedding", "Only Girl", "Far Away in Shanty Town")
1935
The Dark Angel (music: "Keep The Home Fires Burning ('Till the Boys Come Home)" (1914) - uncredited)
1934
Evensong (music: "Till The Boys Come Home" - uncredited)
1933
Cavalcade (music: "Keep the Home Fires Burning" (1915) - uncredited)
1932
The Lost Squadron (music: "Keep the Home-Fires Burning ('Till the Boys Come Home)" (1914) - uncredited)
1930
A Soldier's Plaything (music: "Keep The Home Fires Burning" (1915) - uncredited)
1930
Symphony in Two Flats (writer: "Give Me Back My Heart" - uncredited)
1930
The Still Alarm (Short) (writer: "Keep the Home Fires Burning (Until the Boys Come Home)")
1930
Elstree Calling (writer: "My Heart is Saying")
1929
Pack Up Your Troubles (Short) (music: "Keep the Home Fires Burning" - uncredited)
Composer
2013
Below the Row (Documentary short)
1980
Song by Song (TV Series) (1 episode)
- By British Lyricists (1980)
1976
The Dancing Years (TV Movie)
1959
Musical Playhouse (TV Series) (2 episodes)
- Perchance to Dream (1959)
- The Dancing Years (1959)
1952
Gay's the Word (TV Movie)
1923
Bonnie Prince Charlie
Producer
1924
Lovers in Araby (producer)
1923
The Man Without Desire (producer)
Thanks
1976
That's Entertainment, Part II (Documentary) (acknowledgment: the non-musical sequences represent outstanding contributions by)
Self
1937
Starlight (TV Series) as
Self - Performer
- Dorothy Dickson and Ivor Novello (1937) - Self - Performer
Archive Footage
2022
My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock (Documentary) as
Self
2010
Welsh Greats (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Ivor Novello (2010) - Self
2009
Paul Merton Looks at Alfred Hitchcock (TV Movie documentary) as
The Lodger (uncredited)
2008
Muchachada nui (TV Series) as
Alejandro
- Episode #2.6 (2008) - Alejandro (uncredited)
1995
Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (TV Mini Series documentary) as
The Lodger
- Opportunity Lost (1995) - The Lodger (uncredited)
1982
Van Kerslig tot Kollig (TV Series documentary) as
Self (1982)

References

Ivor Novello Wikipedia


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