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Noël Coward

Noël Coward

3 films · 176 frames · top-billed in 2 · 19421968

Born 15 December 1899 · Teddington, Middlesex, England, UK · died 26 March 1973

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sir Noël Peirce Coward was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".

Born in Teddington, a suburb of London, Coward attended a dance academy in London as a child, making his professional stage début at the age of eleven. As a teenager he was introduced into the high society in which most of his plays would be set. Coward achieved enduring success as a playwright, publishing more than 50 plays from his teens onwards.

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 176 frames · top-billed in 2 · 19421968

  • Knight Bachelor
  • National Board of Review Award for Best Film
  • Academy Honorary Award

How their films are shot

Measured across 176 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Noël takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 3 films we hold, 48% of their frames are day, 43% low key — the look of the work Noël takes.

Time of day

Day48%
Night48%
Interior4%

Lighting

Low key43%
Natural34%
High key14%
Chiaroscuro9%

Shot size

Medium60%
Wide22%
Closeup10%
Fullbody5%

Camera angle

Eye level79%
Low angle10%
High angle10%

Mood

Neutral63%
Tense23%
Lonely6%
Ominous5%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 176 frames from Noël Coward's 3 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.