Posted by Joan in JNC ¯ Gladys Taber
on August 4, 2012, 4:58 am
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There was a story about Ivor Novello in the Guardian yesterday.
Some of the comments including the citing of Gosford Park and a mention of JN...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2012/aug/03/ivor-novello-musicals-simon-callow
Leviathan212
4 August 2012 2:53AM
Ivor Novello was wonderfully portrayed in Robert Altman's The Gosford Park, as one of the many guests who arrive at the country estate for the hunting party. Does anyone remember that film?
There's a lovely scene when the actor playing him does a medley of Novello songs - including "And her mother came too" and the elegiac "We shall never find our lovely land of might have been".
davidabsalom
4 August 2012 6:59AM
Response to Leviathan212, 4 August 2012 2:53AM
Ivor Novello was wonderfully portrayed in Robert Altman's The Gosford Park, as one of the many guests who arrive at the country estate for the hunting party. Does anyone remember that film?
There's a lovely scene when the actor playing him does a medley of Novello songs - including "And her mother came too" and the elegiac "We shall never find our lovely land of might have been".
It was good - shame about the English accent Jeremy Northam had. Novello never bothered to get rid of his Welsh one. Russian prince - Welsh accent, French cat burglar - Welsh accent...
Jeremy N singing (and playing) Ivor Novello's "What A Duke Should Be."
And of course, "The Land of Might Have Been."
Sometimes on the rarest nights comes the vision calm and clear gleaming with unearthly lights on our path of doubt and fear Winds from that far land are blown whispering with secret breath hope that plays a tune alone love that conquers pain and death. Shall we ever find that lovely land of might-have-been? Will I ever be your king or you at last my queen? Days may pass and years may pass and seas may lie between Shall we ever find that lovely land of might-have-been?
We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.” 
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