A profile of the man who, by the age of 30 was the highest-paid writer in the world and a star on the Broadway stage, directing and acting in some of the finest plays and movies of all time. Despite the impediments of the era for being a gay man in a very straight world, Coward became one of the most successful artists of the 20th century. Narrated by Alan Cumming with Rupert Everett as the voice of Coward, and featuring archive contributions by Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Harold Pinter, Frank Sinatra, Lauren Bacall, Michael Caine and Lucille Ball.
