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Birth name: David Ivor Davies Gay Icon Who Gladys Cooper Failed To Make Straight Ivor Novello, the son of the singer and music teacher, Clara Novello Davies, was born in Cardiff, Wales, on 15th January, 1893. After being educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford, he became an actor and songwriter. His first big hit was Keep the Home Fires Burning (1914), a song that was hugely popular during the First World War. Another hit was the novelty number, And Her Mother Came Too (1921). Novello also made films and appeared in Bonnie Prince Charlie (1923) and Hitchcock's The Lodger(1926). His first play, The Rat, was produced in 1924. Novello, who usually appeared in his own plays, also wrote Symphony in Two Flats (1930), The Truth Game (1934), Proscenium (1934), Glamorous Nights (1935), Careless Rapture (1936), Full House (1936), Crest of a Wave (1937), Comedienne (1938) and The Dancing Years (1939). |
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During the Second World War Novello was sent to prison for eight-weeks after he had fraudulently obtained petrol for his Rolls-Royce car. After he was released he wrote the musical Perchance To Dream. This included We'll Gather Lilacs, whose theme of lovers parting and hoping to meet again, made it one of the most popular songs of the war.
In 1947 Novello helped establish the Songwriters' Guild (later known as the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors). Ivor Novello died in London on 6th March 1951. After his death the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors instituted the Ivor Novello awards, granted annually for outstanding contributions to British popular music.
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