The Astonished Heart (film) The Astonished Heart (film) The Astonished Heart is a 1950 British drama film directed by Terence Fisher. It stars Celia Johnson, Noël Coward, and Margaret Leighton, and is based on Coward's play "The Astonished Heart" from his cycle of ten plays, "". Inspired by the great success of the 1945 film "Brief Encounter", which also had been adapted from "Tonight at 8:30", Coward agreed to have "The Astonished Heart" produced as a motion picture. As with the previous film, Coward also wrote the screenplay. Production began in 1949 and featured not only Noël Coward in one of his rare film
Still Life (play) productions of parts of the cycle included Broadway revivals in 1948 (not including "Still Life") and 1967 (including "Still Life" ) and in 1981 at the Lyric Theatre in London (not including "Still Life"). The Antaeus Company in Los Angeles revived all ten plays in October 2007. In 2009, the Shaw Festival revived the full cycle. "Still Life" was given a television production in 1951. In 1991, BBC television mounted productions of the individual plays starring Joan Collins. In most of the plays she took the Lawrence roles, but in "Still Life" she played Myrtle. In the refreshment room of