Gertrude Lawrence

1991 Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers HB, stated first edition, {e} 5th printing. Noel Coward, not one to indulge in hyperbole, said of his theatrical co-star Gertie Lawrence, "Sometimes I would look at her across the stage and she would take my breath away." His hugely popular plays Private Lives and Tonight at 8:30 were written for her and she starred in Lady in The Dark, was the original Anna in The King and I. Author: Sheridan Morley, son the of actor Robert Morley and grandson of actress Agnes Cooper, was an executor of Noel Coward's estate. He had access to papers detailing the Coward-Lawrence relationship.