Still Life (play) mood without technical creaking or over padding, deserves a better fate, and if, by careful writing, acting and producing I can do a little towards reinstating it in its rightful pride, I shall have achieved one of my more sentimental ambitions." "Still Life" was first produced in London (1936) and later presented in New York (1936–1937) and Canada (1938). It has enjoyed several major revivals and in 1945 was adapted for film under the title "Brief Encounter". Like all the other plays in the cycle, it originally starred Gertrude Lawrence and Coward himself. Six of the plays in "" were
The Enchanted Cottage (1945 film) a reality that would make possible supposedly impossible romantic possibilities for himself and his married love interest, Gabriel. On her CBS variety show Carol Burnett performed a parody of the film entitled "The Enchanted Hovel", with herself in the Dorothy McGuire's role and Dick Van Dyke in the Robert Young role. The Enchanted Cottage (1945 film) The Enchanted Cottage is a 1945 romantic fantasy starring Robert Young, Dorothy McGuire, and Mildred Natwick. It was based on a play by Arthur Wing Pinero. "The Enchanted Cottage" was first adapted for the silent screen in 1924, with Richard Barthelmess and May McAvoy