Tonight at 8:30 1942, with a screenplay by Claudine West, Hans Rameau and George Froeschel. It was directed by Robert Z. Leonard. The film starred Norma Shearer and Melvyn Douglas, and also featured Florence Shirley, Lee Bowman and Lenore J. Coffee. Coward adapted "Still Life" for the screen as "Brief Encounter" in 1945. The film was remade in 1974 starring Richard Burton and Sophia Loren. In May 2009, Houston Grand Opera premiered an opera in two acts based on "Brief Encounter", with music by André Previn from a libretto by John Caird. For a 1952 film "Meet Me Tonight", directed by Anthony Pelissier,
Leon Coward Sydney Indie Film Festival (Sydney, Australia) WILDsound Fest (Toronto, Canada) KaPow Intergalactic Film Festival (California, USA) The Montreal International Wreath Awards Film Festival (Montreal, Canada) The Golden Blasters Science Fiction Short Film Awards (The National Irish Science Fiction Film Festival) (Dublin, Ireland) Fantastic Planet Film Festival (Sydney Australia) Miami Short Film Festival (Miami, USA) Best Short Fest (San Diego, USA) Leon Coward Leon Coward (born 1991) is an Australian artist, composer, writer, film-maker and co-founder of the chamber orchestra and vocal ensemble Camerata Academica of the Antipodes. Coward was homeschooled, and has an older sister, Imogen Coward, and brother, Taliésin