WATCH: Exploring the not-so-secret gay life of famed playwright & performer Noël Coward

Image Credit: ‘Mad About The Boy: The Noël Coward Story,’ Greenwich Entertainment

Acclaimed actor, playwright, songwriter, singer, and director Noël Coward was the very definition of a Rennaissance man.

Born to a working class family in the suburbs of London in 1899, he turned his passion for the arts into a multi-faceted career that established him as one of the most revered voices in entertainment, from the West End to Broadway, thanks especially to his hit plays like Private Lives and Blithe Spirit (by 30, he was already the highest paid writer in the world!).

He was also gay—a truth that almost everyone knew, but no one talked about.

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