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Ivor Novello
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(name taken by deed poll in 1927 by David Ivor Davies, 1893–1951) Composer, actor and playwright who was immensely popular between the wars in light musical and theatrical entertainment. In 1914, when only 21 at the start of World War I, he found fame and fortune with his song Keep the Home Fires Burning. He starred in many of his own comedies, but had the greatest success in his musicals – in particular The Dancing Years (1939), which ran through much of the war and survived his own absence for a month in 1944, when he was in prison for evading petrol restrictions.
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