Ivor Novello
Also Known As: David Ivor Davies, David L'Estrange
Biography: 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).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Cardiff, Wales, UK
Birthday: January 15, 1893
Deathday: March 06, 1951
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Gender: Male
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The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
Overview: London. A mysterious serial killer brutally murders young blond women by stalking them in the night fog. One foggy, sinister night, a young man who claims his name is Jonathan Drew arrives at the guest house run by the Bunting family and rents a room.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-14
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Carnival
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-06-26
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The Constant Nymph
Overview: Sanger, an eccentric expatriate composer, dies in his house in the Austrian Alps, leaving his daughters penniless. The young composer Lewis Dodd, a longstanding friend of the family, falls in love with their cousin Florence when she comes to take the girls back to England. But little Tessa Sanger is in love with Lewis herself, and when she runs away from school and comes to live with Florence and her husband, their already-shaky marriage is further undermined
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-20
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A South Sea Bubble
Overview: 'Girl reporter and insane fiancé join pirate's descendant in treasure hunt.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-08-03
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The White Rose
Overview: 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. He winds up in New Orleans and finds himself attracted to a poor, unsophisticated orphan girl, Bessie. One thing leads to another, and before long Bessie finds that she is pregnant with Joseph's child.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-05-21
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I Lived with You
Overview: 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. It turns out he still has a number of diamonds given him by the last czar, and he is persuaded to start selling them. The resulting money, and his princely notoriety, soon cause changes in everyone's lives.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-13
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The Lodger
Overview: An elderly couple's lodger, a British musician (Ivor Novello), becomes the suspect in a series of killings.
Genres: Action Thriller Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-08
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Autumn Crocus
Overview: A teacher falls in love with the married owner of the guest house in which she is staying during a holiday to Austria.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-01
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The Man Without Desire
Overview: A grief-stricken 18th-century Venetian gentleman is thwarted in love and placed in suspended animation. When he wakes up 200 years later, he finds the experiment has more serious unexpected consequences.
Genres: Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-01
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The Rat
Overview: 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. Love, life and jewels are risked and lost in this powerful romantic melodrama as the four characters' lives are changed by this chance encounter for ever.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-07
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Once a Lady
Overview: 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. Many years later, her daughter approaches her, needing her help.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-07
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The Vortex
Overview: A young man is shocked to discover that his fiancé is the mistress of his mother's lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-25
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The Bohemian Girl
Overview: A Polish officer posing as a gypsy loves a gypsy girl who is really the count's daughter.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-07-27
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The Triumph of the Rat
Overview: Pierre Boucheron, alias 'The Rat' and a former underworld notoriety, is now living the high life as the kept man of Zelie de Chaumet. But when she learns he is planning to marry another woman, her vengeance pursues him into the murkiest depths of Paris...
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-21
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The Return of the Rat
Overview: The rich, amoral Zelie is married to Pierre Boucheron, "The Rat" - but her interest in another man is an open secret. Forced to defend his honour, the Rat takes refuge in his old domain of the Paris underworld. But even here he has a rival - and when murder is afoot, the sinister Morel's ambition threatens to cost the Rat dear....
Genres: Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-30
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Bonnie Prince Charlie
Overview: 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.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-01
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Symphony in Two Flats
Overview: 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. Complications ensue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-07-16
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The Gallant Hussar
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-08-29
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Sleeping Car
Overview: A French sleeping-car attending with an eye for the ladies hooks up with a wealthy widow and they get married. What he doesn't know is that she married him because she wants to stay in France. Complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-06
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Downhill
Overview: Roddy, first son of the rich Berwick family, is expelled from school when he takes the blame for his friend Tim's charge. His family sends him away and all of his friends leave him alone. Through many life choices that don't work out in his favor, Roddy begins to find his life slowly spiraling out of his control.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-24
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The Call of the Blood
Overview: An Englishman commits adultery with a Sicilian woman.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1919-12-20
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