Were Noël Coward and Mario Puzo of the same nationality?
Mario Puzo Mario Gianluigi Puzo ( ; ] ; October 15, 1920 – July 2, 1999) was an American author, screenwriter and journalist of Italian descent. He is known for his crime novels about the Mafia, most notably "The Godfather" (1969), which he later co-adapted into a three-part film saga directed by Francis Ford Coppola. He received the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the first film in 1972 and "Part II" in 1974. Puzo also wrote the original screenplay for the 1978 "Superman" film. His last novel, "The Family", was released posthumously in 2001.
Peace in Our Time (play) Peace in Our Time is a two-act play written in 1946 by Noël Coward. As originally envisioned, the piece has eight scenes and a cast of twenty-two speaking roles. It focuses on a small group of Londoners in a pub close to Sloane Square, the characters living in a dark, stressed situation in which Nazi Germany won the Battle of Britain and successfully invaded and occupied the United Kingdom. Although fiction, the work takes direct inspiration from the real-life sufferings of French citizens under fascist occupation that Coward had followed closely.