Run time: 91 mins

Against all odds, Noël Coward became the most successful multi-talented artist of the twentieth century, and defined an era.

This documentary is told through his own words and music. Coward grew up in poverty and left school when he was only nine years old. He was queer in a very straight world. And yet by the age of 30, he was the highest paid writer in the world, and a star on the Broadway stage. He wrote, directed and acted in some of the finest plays and films of all time. He also became a world renowned songwriter and performer, and was also a spy during WWII.

The film features the likes of Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Harold Pinter, Frank Sinatra, Lauren Bacall, Michael Caine, and Lucille Ball. Rupert Everett is the voice of Noël Coward. With narration by Alan Cumming.

He was a true star, who had a style and character that personified the very idea of Englishness. And yet he ended his life in exile from the country he came to define. He was an extraordinary man that led an extraordinary life.