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- 46th Street Theatre
- Adele Astaire
- Adelphi Theatre
- After You, Who?
- Aladdin (TV special)
- All of You
- Annie Lennox
- Anything Goes
- Anything Goes (song)
- Arthur Margetson
- Arthur Treacher
- Ashley Judd
- Aubagne
- Ballets Russes
- Baptist
- Be a Clown
- Begin the Beguine
- Bert Lahr
- Betty Hutton
- Bing Crosby
- Bob Hope
- Born to Dance
- Broadway theater
- Broadway theatre
- C'est Magnifique
- C. B. Cochran
- Ca' Rezzonico
- Camp (style)
- Can-Can (musical)
- Cary Grant
- CBS
- Charles Koechlin
- Clifton Webb
- Cole Porter
- Danny Kaye
- Darius Milhaud
- De-Lovely
- Dean Acheson
- Delta Kappa Epsilon
- Deserter's Songs
- Dionne Warwick
- Discogs
- Do I Love You?
- Don Ameche
- Dream Dancing
- DuBarry Was a Lady
- Dubarry Was A Lady
- E. Ray Goetz
- Eleanor Powell
- Elisabeth Welch
- Elizabeth Welch
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Ella Loves Cole
- Emphysema
- Ethel Merman
- Florenz Ziegfeld
- Fontainebleau
- France
- Frank Sinatra
- Fred Astaire
- Fulco di Verdura
- Gay Divorce
- Gene Kelly
- George Gershwin
- George Murphy
- Gertrude Lawrence
- Gilbert and Sullivan
- Ginger Rogers
- Governor of Indiana
- Grace Kelly
- Guy Bolton
- Gyllene Tider
- Harvard Law School
- Herbert Fields
- Hitchy-Koo
- I Am in Love
- I Concentrate on You
- I Love Paris
- Igor Stravinsky
- Indiana
- Irving Berlin
- Irwin Winkler
- Irène Bordoni
- It's De-Lovely
- Janet Blair
- Jessie Matthews
- Jimmy Durante
- Jo Dee Messina
- John Barrowman
- John Derbyshire
- Jubilee (musical)
- Judy Garland
- June Havoc
- Kathryn Crawford
- Kevin Kline
- Kiss Me, Kate
- La création du monde
- Leave It to Me!
- Les Girls
- Les Invalides
- Let's Face It!
- Let's Misbehave
- Libby Holman
- Linda Lee Thomas
- List song
- Lortel Archives
- Louisville, Kentucky
- Love for Sale (song)
- Lupe Vélez
- Mary Martin
- Mercury Rev
- Merengue music
- Midnight in Paris
- Monty Woolley
- Moss Hart
- Musical theatre
- Night and Day (song)
- Noël Coward
- Nymph Errant
- Operetta
- Orange Bowl (game)
- P. G. Wodehouse
- P.G. Wodehouse
- Panama Hattie
- Paramount Pictures
- Paris (1928 musical)
- Peru, Indiana
- Philip Barry
- Philip J. Lang
- Pietro Yon
- Piping Rock Club
- Pop music
- Puls (album)
- Red Hot + Blue
- Red Hot And Blue
- Red, Hot and Blue
- Renal failure
- Revue
- Rhapsody in Blue
- Rita Hayworth
- RKO Pictures
- Rodgers and Hart
- Rosalie (film)
- Roy Rogers
- Russel Crouse
- Scroll and Key
- See America First
- Shane MacGowan
- Silk Stockings
- So In Love
- So in Love
- Sonnie Hale
- Stage Fright (film)
- Steinway & Sons
- Stephen Citron
- Streetwalker
- Template Cole Porter
- The Andrews Sisters
- The Battle of Paris
- The Gay Divorcee
- The Musical Times
- The New York Times
- The New Yorker
- The New Yorkers
- The Pirate
- Tilly Losch
- Tony Award
- Too Darn Hot
- True Love (song)
- U2
- Ulcer (dermatology)
- Valedictorian
- Victor Moore
- Vincent d'Indy
- Vincente Minnelli
- Wake Up and Dream
- Wake up and dream
- Well, Did You Evah!
- West End theatre
- Whiffenpoofs
- Wikipedia Persondata
- William Gaxton
- Woody Allen
- Worcester Academy
- World War I
- Yale College
- Yale Glee Club
- Yale University
- You're Sensational
- You're the Top
- Ça, C'est L'amour
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Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 large professional theatres with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan, New York City.Although theater is the preferred spelling in the U.S.A. (see further at American and British English Spelling Differences), the majority of venues, performers, and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre. Along with London's West End theatre, Broadway theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world.
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Ca' Rezzonico
'''Ca' Rezzonico''' is a palazzo on the Grand Canal in Venice. Today it is a public museum dedicated to 18th century Venice.
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France
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Les Invalides
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Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville (usually ; see Pronunciation below) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, and the county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city's borders have been with those of the county because of a city-county merger. The city's estimated population as of 2009 was 721,594 (consolidated; balance total is 566,503), with a population of 1,266,454 in the Louisville metropolitan area. An important internal shipping port in the 19th century, Louisville is today most well known for the Kentucky Derby, the widely watched first race of the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing.
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Peru, Indiana
Peru is a city in, and the county seat of, Miami County, Indiana, United States. The population was 12,994 at the 2000 census, making it the most populous city in Miami County.
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Piping Rock Club
Piping Rock Club is a country club in Locust Valley, New York.
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West End theatre
West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's 'Theatreland,' the West End. Along with New York's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English speaking world. Seeing a West End show is a common tourist activity in London.
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Worcester Academy
Worcester Academy is an independent coeducational preparatory school spread over in Worcester, Massachusetts in the United States. The school is divided into a middle school, serving approximately 150 students in grades six to eight, and an upper school, serving approximately 500 students in grades nine to twelve, including some postgraduates. Approximately one-third of students in the upper school participate in the school's five- and seven-day boarding programs. Currently there are approximately 80 international students enrolled from 10 different nations.
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Yale University
Yale University is a private Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States.
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Adele Astaire
Lady Charles Cavendish (September 10, 1896 – January 25, 1981), better known as Adele Astaire, was an American dancer and entertainer. She was Fred Astaire's elder sister. Her birthdate was often given as 1897 or 1898, but the 1900 U.S. census showed her birth year as 1896.
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Annie Lennox
Annie Lennox (born 25 December 1954) is a Scottish recording artist, better known as being one member of the duo Eurythmics, which she formed in 1980. Lennox penned some of the band's best-known tracks to date, including "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)", "Here Comes The Rain Again", "Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four)" "There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart)" and "Love Is a Stranger".
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Arthur Treacher
Arthur Veary Treacher (23 July 1894 – 14 December 1975) was an English actor born in Brighton, East Sussex, England.
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Ashley Judd
Ashley Judd (born April 19, 1968) is an American actress, who is best known for playing a number of strong characters in films such as Ruby in Paradise, Kiss the Girls, Double Jeopardy, Where the Heart Is and High Crimes.
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Bert Lahr
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Betty Hutton
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Bing Crosby
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C. B. Cochran
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Cary Grant
Archibald Alexander Leach (January 18, 1904 – November 29, 1986), better known by his stage name Cary Grant, was an English-American actor. With his distinctive yet not quite placeable Mid-Atlantic accent, he was noted as perhaps the foremost exemplar of the debonair leading man: handsome, virile, charismatic, and charming.
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Clifton Webb
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Cole Porter
Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter. His works include the musical comedies Kiss Me, Kate, Fifty Million Frenchmen, DuBarry Was a Lady and Anything Goes, as well as songs like "Night and Day", "I Get a Kick out of You", "Well, Did You Evah!" and "I've Got You Under My Skin". He was noted for his sophisticated, bawdy lyrics, clever rhymes and complex forms. Porter was one of the greatest contributors to the Great American Songbook. Cole Porter is one of the few Tin Pan Alley composers to have written both the lyrics and the music for his songs.
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Danny Kaye
Danny Kaye (January 18, 1913 – March 3, 1987) was an American actor, singer, dancer, and comedian.
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Darius Milhaud
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Dean Acheson
Dean Gooderham Acheson (April 11, 1893 – October 12, 1971) was an American statesman and lawyer. As United States Secretary of State in the administration of President Harry S. Truman from 1949 to 1953, he played a central role in defining American foreign policy during the Cold War. Acheson helped design the Marshall Plan and played a central role in the development of the Truman Doctrine and creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
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Don Ameche
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E. Ray Goetz
E. Ray Goetz (June 12, 1886 to June 12, 1954) was an American composer, songwriter, author and producer. He was a charter member of ASCAP in 1914, and was a director until 1917.
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Eleanor Powell
Eleanor Torrey Powell (November 21, 1912 – February 11, 1982) was an American film actress and dancer of the 1930s and 1940s, known for her exuberant solo tap dancing.
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Ella Fitzgerald
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Ethel Merman
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Florenz Ziegfeld
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Frank Sinatra
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Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire (May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987), born Frederick Austerlitz, was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of 76 years, during which he made 31 musical films. He was named the fifth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute. He is particularly associated with Ginger Rogers, with whom he made ten films.
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Fulco di Verdura
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Gene Kelly
Eugene Curran "Gene" Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996) was an American dancer, actor, singer, film director and producer, and choreographer. A major exponent of 20th century filmed dance, Kelly was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his good looks and the likeable characters that he played on screen.
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George Gershwin
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George Murphy
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Ginger Rogers
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Grace Kelly
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Herbert Fields
Herbert Fields (July 26, 1897 - March 24, 1958) was an American librettist and screenwriter.
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Igor Stravinsky
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Irving Berlin
Irving Berlin (May 11, 1888September 22, 1989) was an American composer and lyricist, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in history.
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Irwin Winkler
Irwin Winkler (born May 25, 1931) is an American film producer and director. He is the producer or director of 50 major motion pictures, dating back to 1967's Double Trouble, starring Elvis Presley. The fourth film he produced, ''They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969), starring Jane Fonda, was nominated for nine Academy Awards. In 1976, he won an Oscar for Best Picture for Rocky. As a producer, he has been nominated for Best Picture for three other films: Raging Bull, The Right Stuff, and Goodfellas''.
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Irène Bordoni
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Jessie Matthews
Jessie Matthews, OBE (11 March 1907 – 19 August 1981) was an English actress, dancer and singer of the 1930s, whose career continued into the post-war period.
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Jimmy Durante
James Francis "Jimmy" Durante (February 10, 1893 – January 29, 1980) was an American singer, pianist, comedian and actor. His distinctive clipped gravelly speech, comic language butchery, jazz-influenced songs, and large nose helped make him one of America's most familiar and popular personalities of the 1920s through the 1970s. His jokes about his nose included referring to it as a "Schnozzola", and the word became his nickname.
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Jo Dee Messina
Jo Dee Marie Messina (born August 25, 1970, in Framingham, Massachusetts), known professionally as Jo Dee Messina, is an American country music artist. She has charted nine Number One singles on the Billboard country music charts. She has been honored by the Country Music Association, the Academy of Country Music and has been nominated for a Grammy Award. She was the first female country artist to score three multiple-week Number One songs from the same album. To date, she has two Platinum and three Gold-certified albums by the RIAA.
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John Derbyshire
:Not to be confused with Jonathan Derbyshire.
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Judy Garland
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Kathryn Crawford
: Not to be confused with Katherine Crawford, a film and TV actress of the 1960s and 70s best known for co-starring in the series Gemini Man.
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Kevin Kline
Kevin Delaney Kline (born October 24, 1947) is an American theatre, voice and film actor. He has won an Academy Award and two Tony Awards, and was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2009.
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Libby Holman
Libby Holman (May 23, 1904 – June 18, 1971) was an American torch singer and stage actress who also achieved notoriety for her complex and unconventional personal life.
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Linda Lee Thomas
Linda Lee Thomas (November 17, 1883 – May 20, 1954) was an American socialite, the wife of musical theatre composer Cole Porter.
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Lupe Vélez
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Mary Martin
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Monty Woolley
Monty Woolley (August 17, 1888May 6, 1963) was an American stage, film, radio, and television actor. At the age of 50, he achieved a measure of stardom for his best-known role in the stage play and 1942 film The Man Who Came To Dinner. He distinctive white beard was "his trademark."
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Moss Hart
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Noël Coward
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P. G. Wodehouse
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P.G. Wodehouse
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Philip Barry
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Pietro Yon
Pietro Alessandro Yon (August 8, 1886 – November 22, 1943) was an Italian-born organist who made his career in the United States.
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Rita Hayworth
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Roy Rogers
Roy Rogers, born Leonard Franklin Slye (November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998), was an American singer and cowboy actor, as well as the namesake of the Roy Rogers Restaurants chain. He and his wife Dale Evans, his golden palomino Trigger, and his German Shepherd dog, Bullet, were featured in more than 100 movies and The Roy Rogers Show. The show ran on radio for nine years before moving to television from 1951 through 1957. His productions usually featured a sidekick, often either Pat Brady, (who drove a Jeep called "Nellybelle") or the crotchety George "Gabby" Hayes. Roy's nickname was "King of the Cowboys". Dale's nickname was "Queen of the West."
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Russel Crouse
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Shane MacGowan
Shane Patrick Lysaght MacGowan (born 25 December 1957) is an Anglo-Irish musician and singer, best known as the original singer and songwriter of The Pogues.
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Sonnie Hale
Sonnie Hale (1 May 1902 – 9 June 1959) was an English theatre and cinema actor and director.
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Tilly Losch
Ottilie Ethel Leopoldine "Tilly" Losch, Countess of Carnarvon (15 November 1903 – 24 December 1975) was an Austrian-born dancer, choreographer, actress and painter who lived and worked for most of her life in the United States and United Kingdom.
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Victor Moore
Victor Frederick Moore (February 24, 1876 - July 23, 1962) was an American actor of stage and screen, as well as a comedian, writer, and director.
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Vincent d'Indy
'''Vincent d'Indy''' (27 March 18512 December 1931) was a French composer and teacher.
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Vincente Minnelli
Vincente Minnelli (February 28, 1903 – July 25, 1986), born Lester Anthony Minnelli, was a Hollywood director and stage director. He was married to Judy Garland from 1945 until 1951; they were the parents of Liza Minnelli.
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William Gaxton
William Gaxton (December 2, 1893 - February 2, 1963) was a star of vaudeville, film, and theatre.
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Woody Allen
Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; December 1, 1935) is an American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, jazz musician, author and playwright.
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World War I
World War I was a military conflict centered on Europe that began in the summer of 1914. The fighting ended in late 1918. This conflict involved all of the world's great powers, assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies (centred around the Triple Entente) and the Central Powers. More than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, were mobilized in one of the largest wars in history. More than 9 million combatants were killed, due largely to great technological advances in firepower without corresponding ones in mobility. It was the second deadliest conflict in history.
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- Begin the Beguine
- I HATE MEN
- Just One Of Those Things
- Let's Do It
- Let's Misbehave
- Ridin' High
- Well Did You Evah
- Youre The Top
- I Concentrate On You
- I Get A Kick Out Of You
- Its De-lovely
- Love For Sale
- Night & Day
- Paris Loves Lovers
- So In Love
- Take Me Back To Manhattan
- TOO DARN HOT
- Under My Skin
- What Is This Thing Called Love
- YOU DO SOMETHING TO ME
- Night and Day
- Everytime We Say Goodbye
- Buddy Beware
- Cest Manifique
- Heaven Hop
- Miss Otis Regrets
- No.
- Anything Goes
- Another Opening Another Show
- Blow, Gabriel, Blow
- Do I Love You
- In The Still of The Night
- Just One Of Thoes Things
- True Love
- Bless Yore Beautiful Hide
- Wonderful, Wonderful Day
- Lonesome Polecat
- Goin' Co'tin'
- Sobbin' Women
- June Bride
- Spring, Spring, Spring
- When You're in Love
- So in Love
- Were Thine That Special Face
- Wunderbar
- I've Come to Wive It Wealthily in Padua
- Where Is the Life That Late I Led?
- I Can Do Without You
- Higher Than a Hawk
- Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'
- The Surrey With the Fringe on Top
- Pore Jud Is Daid
- Oklahoma
- Make Believe
- Why Do I Love You?
- You Are Love
- The Girl That I Marry
- My Defences Are Down
- They Say It's Wonderful
- Anything You Can Do
- Overture
- Another Op'nin', Another Show
- Why Can't You Behave
- Wunderbar
- So in Love Am I
- We Open in Venice
- Tom' Dick or Harry
- I've Come to Wive It Wealthily in Padua
- I Hate Men
- Were Thine That Special Face
- Too Darn Hot
- Where Is the Life That I Led?
- Always True to You (In My Fashion)
- Bianca
- So in Love Am I
- Brush Up Your Shakespeare
- Women Are So Simple
- Finale
- No Consta
- Overture
- I Get a Kick Out of You
- There's No Cure Like Travel
- Bon Voyage
- There's No Cure Like Travel (Reprise)
- You're the Top
- Easy to Love
- Easy to Love (Reprise)
- The Crew Song
- There'll Always Be a Lady Fair
- Friendship
- It's De-Lovely
- Anything Goes
- Interlude
- Public Enemy Number One
- Blow, Gabriel, Blow
- Goodbye, Little Dream, Goodbye
- Be Like the Bluebird
- All Through the Night
- The Gypsy in Me
- Buddie, Beware
- Finale - I Get a Kick Out of You
- Anything Goes (Bows)
- Overture
- By Candlelight
- Let's Not Talk About Love
- I'm Going in for Love
- I'm Back in Circulation
- From Alpha to Omega
- Entr'acte
- What Shall I Do?
- Let's Misbehave
- I Happen to Be in Love
- From Alpha to Omega (reprise) / Act II Finale
- Entr'acte
- You Never Know
- What Is That Tune?
- At Long Last Love
- Ridin' High
- By Candlelight (reprise) / Finale Ultimo
- Entr'acte
- It's All Right With Me
- Come Along With Me
- Live and Let Live
- You Do Something to Me
- Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)
- Main Title / I Love Paris / Montmartre
- C'est magnifique
- Maidens Typical of France
- Just One of Those Things
- I Love Paris
- Can-Can
- Another Op'nin', Another Show
- Why Can't You Behave?
- Wunderbar
- So in Love
- We Open in Venice
- Tom, Dick or Harry
- I've Come to Wive It Wealthily in Padua
- I Hate Men
- Were Thine That Special Face
- Cantiamo d'amore
- Kiss Me, Kate
- Too Darn Hot
- Where Is the Life That Late I Led?
- Always True to You (in My Fashion)
- Bianca
- So in Love (reprise)
- Brush Up Your Shakespeare
- Pavane
- I Am Ashamed That Women Are So Simple
- Kiss Me, Kate (finale)
- Overture / High Society / Ridin' High
- Throwing a Ball Tonight
- Little One
- Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
- I Love Paris
- She's Got That Thing
- She's Got That Thing (reprise)
- Once Upon a Time
- I Worship You
- True Love
- High Society / Let's Misbehave
- I'm Getting Myself Ready for You
- Just One of Those Things
- Well, Did You Evah? / You're Sensational
- Montage
- It's All Right With Me
- He's a Right Guy
- Samantha / Finale
- Overture
- Another Op'nin', Another Show
- Why Can't You Behave?
- Wunderbar
- So in Love
- We Open in Venice
- Tom, Dick or Harry
- I've Come to Wive It Wealthily in Padua
- I Hate Men
- Were Thine That Special Face
- Too Darn Hot
- Where Is the Life That Late I Led?
- Always True to You (in My Fashion)
- Bianca
- So in Love (reprise)
- Brush Up Your Shakespeare
- I Am Ashamed That Women Are So Simple
- Finale: Kiss Me, Kate
- Kiss Me, Kate Overture
- Overture Medley: Always True to You in My Fashion / Why Can't You Behave / Another Openin', Another Show / So in Love
- Main Title (So in Love / Wunderbar)
- So in Love
- Too Darn Hot
- Why Can't You Behave
- Electric Sign (Another Openin', Another Show)
- Lilli's Cork
- Wunderbar
- So in Love (reprise)
- We Open in Venice (extended version)
- Tom, Dick or Harry
- I've Come to Wive It Wealthily in Padua
- I Hate Men
- Were Thine That Special Face
- Finale Act One (Kiss Me Kate)
- And So to Wed (We Open in Venice / I Hate Men)
- I've Come to Wive It Wealthily in Padua (reprise)
- Where Is the Life That Late I Led
- Bianca
- Why Can't You Behave
- Were Thine That Special Face
- Always True to You in My Fashion
- Brush Up Your Shakespeare
- Bianca's Wedding (We Open in Venice)
- From This Moment On
- Down on Kate (includes So in Love)
- Kiss Me Kate (Finale Act 2)
- Overture
- Prologue
- I Jupiter, I Rex
- Use Your Imagination
- Entrance of Night
- Hail, Hail, Hail
- I Got Beauty
- Maiden Fair
- Where, Oh Where?
- They Couldn't Compare to You
- From This Moment On
- What Do You Think About Men?
- Dance of the Long Night
- You Don't Remind Me
- I Sleep Easier Now
- I Am Loved
- Climb Up the Mountain
- The Dawn
- No Lover
- Cherry Pies Ought to Be You
- Hark to the Song of the Night
- Nobody's Chasing Me
- Finale
- Prelude
- I Get a Kick Out of You
- There's No Cure Like Travel
- You're the Top
- Easy to Love
- I Want to Row on the Crew
- Sailor's Chantey
- Friendship
- It's De-Lovely
- Anything Goes
- Entr'acte
- Public Enemy Number One
- Blow, Gabriel, Blow
- Goodbye, Little Dream, Goodbye
- Be Like the Bluebird
- All Through the Night
- The Gypsy in Me
- Buddie, Beware
- I Get a Kick Out of You / Anything Goes
- Just One of Those Things / All Through the Night / From This Moment On
- So in Love / Let's Do It / Get Out of Town / You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To
- Don't Fence Me In / I Love You Samantha / My Heart Belongs to Daddy
- In the Still of the Night / It's All Right With Me / Ridin' High / You're the Top
- Why Shouldn't I? / I Concentrate on You / Easy to Love
- True Love
- Anything Goes / C'est magnifique / I Love Paris / Too Damn Hot
- Wunderbar
- Night and Day / I Love You / You Do Something to Me
- Love for Sale / What Is This Thing Called Love? / You're Sensational
- All of You / Always True to You in My Fashion / Dream Dancing
- Allez-vous-en, Go Away
- I've Got You Under My Skin / It's De-Lovely / Begin the Beguine
- Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye / Why Can't You Behave? / Down in the Depths / I Get a Kick Out of You
- In the Still of the Night
- I Concentrate on You
- Miss Otis Regrets
- I Get a Kick Out of You
- Begin the Beguine
- You're the Top
- I've Got You Under My Skin
- I Loved Him but He Didn't Love Me
- Night and Day
- Don't Fence Me In
- Love for Sale
- It's Alright With Me
- High Society (Overture)
- High Society Calypso
- Little One
- Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
- True Love
- You're Sensational
- I Love You, Samantha
- Now You Has Jazz
- Well Did You Evah?
- Mind If I Make Love to You
- Overture
- Prologue: I Jupiter, I Rex
- Use Your Imagination
- Entrance of Juno: Hail, Hail, Hail / I Got Beauty
- Where, Oh, Where?
- I Am Loved
- They Couldn't Compare to You
- What Do You Think About Men?
- I Sleep Easier Now
- Climb Up the Mountain
- No Lover (for Me)
- Cherry Pies Ought to Be You
- Hark to the Song of the Night
- Nobody's Chasing Me
- Finale
- Another Op'Nin', Another Show
- Intro
- Always True to You in My Fashion
- Easy to Love
- After You, Who?
- In the Still of the Night
- I Happen to Like New York
- I Get a Kick Out of You
- Make It Another Old-Fashioned, Please
- What Is This Thing Called Love?
- Where, Oh Where?
- Begin the Beguine
- You're the Top
- Blow, Gabriel, Blow
- Love for Sale
- Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye
- All Through the Night
- I Concentrate on You
- He's the Top!
- It's All Right With Me
- Night and Day
- Just One of Those Things
- Anything Goes
- Wunderbar
- Introduction / Maidens Typical of France
- Never Give Anything Away
- Quadrille
- C'est magnifique
- Come Along With Me
- Live and Let Love
- I Am in Love
- If You Loved Me Truly
- Montmart'
- Allez-vous en, Go Away
- Never, Never Be an Artist
- It's All Right With Me
- Every Man Is a Stupid Man
- I Love Paris
- Can-Can
- Introduction
- Overture
- Come to the Supermarket (in Old Peking)
- Make Way
- Trust Your Destiny to Your Star
- Opportunity Knocks but Once (at Thuh Door)
- Aladdin
- Wouldn't It Be Fun
- I Adore You
- No Wonder Taxes Are High
- I Adore You (reprise)
- Finale
- Aladdin
- I Adore You
- Trust Your Destiny to Your Star
- Opportunity Knocks but Once
- Title Music
- History of the Pirate
- Nina
- The Sea Wall
- Mack the Black
- Manuela's Sacrifice
- The Pirate Ballet
- You Can Do Nothing Wrong
- Be a Clown
- Love of My Life
- Be a Clown (Finale)
- Voodoo
- Love of My Life (alternate version)
- Something for the Boys Overture: Something for the Boys / He's a Right Guy / Hey Good Lookin'
- Du Barry Was a Lady Overture: Every Day a Holiday / It Was Written in the Stars / Do I Love You? / Friendship
- The Snake in the Grass (Ballet From Fifty Million Frenchmen)
- Ballet: Within the Quota: Opening
- Ballet: Within the Quota: Heiress
- Ballet: Within the Quota: Heiress Reformer
- Ballet: Within the Quota: Colored Gentleman
- Ballet: Within the Quota: Colored Gentleman Reformer
- Ballet: Within the Quota: Jazz Baby
- Ballet: Within the Quota: Jazz Baby Reformer
- Ballet: Within the Quota: Cowboy
- Ballet: Within the Quota: Sweetheart of the World
- Ballet: Within the Quota: Finale
- Leave It to Me Overture: From Now On / Most Gentlemen Don't Like Love / Get Out of Town
- You Never Know Overture: From Alpha to Omega / At Long Last Love / You Never Know / For No Rhyme or Reason
- Anything Goes Overture: Anything Goes / All Through the Night / You're the Top / Blow, Gabriel, Blow
- Fifty Million Frenchmen Overture: I'm in Love / You've Got That Thing / The Happy Heaven of Harlem / You Do Something to Me / Paree, What Did You Do to Me
- Du Barry Was a Lady: Gavotte
- Can-Can Overture: Can-Can / Allez-Vous-En / If You Loved Me Truly / I Love Paris / Montmartre
- Gay Divorce Overture: How's Your Romance? / After You, Who? / You're in Love / I've Got You on My Mind / Salt Air
- Kiss Me Kate Overture: Too Darn Hot / Why Can't You Behave? / Wunderbar / So in Love / Bianca
- Gay Divorce: Night and Day
- Out of This World Overture: Use Your Imagination / Climb Up the Mountain / Where, Oh Where / Nobody's Chasing Me / I Am Loved
- Title Music
- Introducing Fred
- "Propaganda"
- Too Bad
- Paris Loves Lovers
- Stereophonic Sound
- Seeing Paris
- It's a Chemical Reaction, That's All
- All of You
- Satin and Silk
- Silk Stockings
- Without Love
- Fated to Be Mated
- All of You (reprise)
- Josephine
- Siberia
- Red Blues
- The Ritz Roll and Rock
- Too Bad (Finale)
- Just One of Those Things
- Anything Goes
- I'm in Love Again
- I Get a Kick Out of You
- How Could We Be Wrong
- Miss Otis Regrets
- Lady Fair
- I'm a Gigolo
- Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)
- Night and Day
- They All Fall in Love
- You're the Top
- Love for Sale
- All Through the Night
- Be Like the Bluebird
- Experiment
- Goodbye - Thank You So Much, Mrs. Lowsborough
- What Is This Thing Called Love
- Prelude
- I Get a Kick Out of You
- There's No Cure Like Travel / Bon Voyage
- You're the Top
- Easy to Love
- I Want to Row on the Crew / There'll Always Be a Lady Fair
- Friendship
- It's De-Lovely
- Anything Goes
- Entr'acte
- Public Enemy Number One
- Blow, Gabriel, Blow
- All Through the Night
- Be Like the Bluebird
- All Through the Night (reprises)
- The Gypsy in Me
- Buddie, Beware
- I Get a Kick Out of You / Anything Goes (reprises)
- Premierenfieber (Gerburg, Ensemble)
- Wann kann man dir trau'n? (Gerburg, Hahn)
- Wunderbar (Tremper, Lange)
- Ich bin dein für alle Zeit (Tremper)
- Von Venedig nach Venedig (Ensemble)
- Hinz und Kunz (Gerburg, Schobesberger, Hahn, Fritsche)
- Ich will mich reich beweiben hier in Padua (Lange, Boys)
- Ein Lob dem Minnegesang (Ensemble)
- Finale 1 (Lange, Tremper, Ensemble)
- Kampf dem Mann (Tremper)
- Es ist viel zu heiss (Schobesberger, Tasche, Tremper, Gerburg, Ascacibar)
- Aber treu bin ich nur dir mein Schatz (Gerburg, Hahn)
- Wo ist die liebestolle Zeit (Lange)
- Let's Do It (Gerburg)
- Wenn man mich nur liess (Oosthoek)
- Schlag nach bei Shakespeare (Birkhahn, Zach, Ensemble)
- Prelude
- I Get a Kick Out of You
- There's No Cure Like Travel / Bon Voyage
- You're the Top
- Easy to Love
- I Want to Row on the Crew / Sailor's Chantey
- Friendship
- It's De-Lovely
- Anything Goes
- Entr' Acte
- Public Enemy Number One
- Blow, Gabriel, Blow
- Goodbye, Little Dream, Goodbye
- Be Like the Bluebird
- All Through the Night
- The Gypsy in Me
- Buddie, Beware
- I Get a Kick Out of You / Anything Goes (reprise)
Released [1980]
- I Introduced
- I'm a Gigolo
- The Leader of a Big Time Band
- I Loved Him (But He Didn't Love Me)
- I Happen to Like New York
- What Shall I Do?
- Tomorrow
- Farming
- Give Him the Oo-La-La
- Make It Another Old-Fashioned, Please
- Down in the Depths (On the 90th Floor)
- Most Gentlemen Don't Like Love
- Finale (medley)
- Overture
- Too Bad
- Paris Loves Lovers
- Stereophonic Sound
- It's a Chemical Reaction, That's All / All of You
- Satin and Silk
- Without Love
- Hail Bibinski
- As On Through the Seasons We Sail
- Josephine
- Siberia
- Silk Stockings
- The Red Blues
- Finale
- Entr'acte
- Too Darn Hot
- Where Is the Life That Late I Led?
- Always True to You in My Fashion
- Bianca
- Reprise: So in Love
- Brush Up You Shakespeare
- Pavane (What Can't You Behave?)
- I Am Ashamed That Women Are So Simple
- 'Shrew' Finale
- It Was Great Fun the First Time
- A Woman's Career
- We Shall Never Be Younger
- I'm Afraid, Sweetheart, I Love You
- If Ever Married I'm
- What Does Your Servant Dream About?
- Overture
- [unknown]
- Judges' Entrance
- [dialogue]
- Maidens Typical of France
- [dialogue]
- Maidens Typical of France (reprise)
- [Scene Link] / [Street Scene]
- [dialogue]
- [Scene Link]
- [dialogue]
- Never Give Anything Away
- [dialogue]
- [Dance Band and Scene Link]
- [unknown]
- [Scene Link]
- [dialogue]
- [unknown]
- [dialogue]
- Quadrille
- [dialogue]
- [Scene Link]
- [unknown]
- [unknown]
- [unknown]
- [unknown]
- [unknown]
- [dialogue]
- [unknown]
- I Am in Love
- [Scene Link]
- [dialogue]
- If You Loved Me Truly
- [dialogue]
- Montmartre
- Melos
- [dialogue]
- Melos
- The Garden of Eden Ballet
- Eve's Dance
- Montmartre (reprise)
- [dialogue]
- Allez-vous-en
- I'm Throwing a Ball Tonight / I Get a Kick Out of You / Anything Goes / From This Moment On
- You've Got That Thing
- I'm Unlucky at Gambling
- I've Got You Under My Skin
- Red, Hot and Blue
- Love for Sale
- Find Me a Primitive Man
- Blow, Gabriel, Blow
- Begin the Beguine
- Miss Otis Regrets
- Down in the Depths
- Rap Tap on Wood
- Night and Day / In the Still of the Night
- I Concentrate on You
- Who Said Gay Paree?
- Always True to You in My Fashion
- I Happen to Like New York
- You're Sensational
- Can-Can
- I Gaze in Your Eyes
- Finale Medley: Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love / You're the Top / Well, Did You Evah!
- Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye
- Opening
- Announcement of Inheritance
- See That You're Born in Texas
- When My Baby Goes to Town
- Something for the Boys
- When We're Home on the Range
- Could It Be You?
- Hey, Good Lookin'
- He's a Right Guy
- Washington D.C.
- The Leader of a Big-Time Band
- Finale: Act One (Radio Sequence)
- Coffee
- There Must Be Someone for You
- There's a Happy Land in the Sky
- He's a Right Guy (reprise)
- I'm in Love With a Soldier Boy
- By the Mississinewah
- Finale: Hey, Good Lookin'
- Something for the Boys
- Overture
- Experiment
- It's Bad for Me
- Neauville-Sur-Mer
- Cocotte
- How Could We Be Wrong?
- They're Always Entertaining
- Georgia Sand
- Nymph Errant
- Ruins
- Physician
- Solomon
- Back to Nature With You
- Plumbing
- Si Vous Aimez Les Poitrines
- You're Too Far Away
- Sweet Nudity
- My Louisa
- Cazanova
- Concert Finale: Experiment
- Anything Goes
- It's Delovely
- Night and Day
- What Is This Thing Called Love
- I Love You
- So in Love
- Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love
- Begin the Beguine
- My Heart Belongs to Daddy
- Love for Sale
- Just One of Those Things
- In the Still of the Night
- True Love
- I Get a Kick Out of You
- From This Moment On
- Don't Fence Me In
- I Love Paris
- I've Got You Under My Skin
- You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To
- You're the Top
- Overture
- You Do Something to Me
- The American Express
- You've Got That Thing
- Find Me a Primitive Man
- I Worship You
- Do You Want to See Paris?
- Where Would You Get Your Coat?
- At Longchamps Today
- The Boyfriend Back Home
- I'm in Love
- Please Don't Make Me Be Good
- You Don't Know Paree
- Entr'acte
- Somebody's Going to Throw a Big Party
- It Isn't Done
- The Queen of Terre Haute
- Let's Step Out
- The Tale of the Oyster
- I'm Unlucky at Gambling
- Why Shouldn't I Have You?
- Paree, What Did You Do to Me?
- Overture: You're the Top
- Bon Voyage
- It's De-Lovely
- Heaven Hop
- Friendship
- I Get a Kick Out of You
- Anything Goes
- Public Enemy Number One/Let's Step Out
- Let's Misbehave
- Blow, Gabriel, Blow
- All Through the Night
- Be Like the Bluebird
- Take Me Back to Manhattan
- You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To
- You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To
- My Heart Belongs to Daddy
- My Heart Belongs to Daddy
- I Get a Kick Out of You
- I Get a Kick Out of You
- Ev'vry Time We Say Goodbye
- Ev'vry Time We Say Goodbye
- A Foggy Day (In London Town)
- A Foggy Day (In London Town)
- I Was Doing Allright
- I Was Doing Allright
- Love Is Here to Stay
- Love Is Here to Stay
- They Can't Take That Away From Me
- They Can't Take That Away From Me
- Overture
- I Get a Kick Out of You
- Bon Voyage
- All Through the Night
- There'll Always Be a Lady Fair
- Where Are the Men?
- You're the Top
- Encore: You're the Top
- Reprise: There'll Always Be a Lady Fair
- Anything Goes
- Finale Act One
- Entr'acte
- Public Enemy Number One
- What a Joy to Be Young
- Blow, Gabriel, Blow
- Be Like the Bluebird
- Buddie, Beware
- The Gypsy in Me
- Finale Ultimo
- There's No Cure Like Travel
- Kate the Great
- Waltz Down the Aisle
- Main Titles
- Restaurant Interior
- Daphine's Island
- Poirot on Boat
- The Cocktail Party
- Arlena & Patrick
- Swimming
- Hotel Balcony
- Myra & Christine
- Gardener's Suite
- Breakfast on the Terrace
- Christine in Hotel Corridor
- The Dance Sequence
- Daphine's Office
- Checkout
- The Grotto
- Hotel Exterior
Born: ['1891-06-09']
Died: ['1964-10-15']
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| Cole Porter | |
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 Cole Porter, composer and songwriter |
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| Born | (1891-06-09)June 9, 1891 Peru, Indiana, U.S. |
| Died | October 15, 1964(1964-10-15) (aged 73) Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
| Spouse | Linda Lee Thomas (m. 1919–1954) «start: (1919)–end+1: (1955)»"Marriage: Linda Lee Thomas to Cole Porter" Location: (linkback:http://en-wiki.pop.wn.com/index.php/Cole_Porter)(her death) |
Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter. Born to a wealthy family in Indiana, he defied the wishes of his domineering grandfather and took up music as a profession. Classically trained, he was drawn towards musical theatre. After a slow start, he began to achieve success in the 1920s, and by the 1930s he was one of the major songwriters for the Broadway musical stage. Unlike most successful Broadway composers, Porter wrote both the lyrics and the music for his songs.
After a serious horseback riding accident in 1937, Porter was left disabled and in constant pain, but he continued to work. His shows of the early 1940s did not contain the lasting hits of his best work of the 1920s and 30s, but in 1948 he made a triumphant comeback with his most successful musical, Kiss Me, Kate.
Porter's other musicals include Fifty Million Frenchmen, DuBarry Was a Lady, Anything Goes and Can-Can, and his numerous hit songs include "Night and Day", "I Get a Kick out of You", "Well, Did You Evah!" and "I've Got You Under My Skin". He also composed scores for films from the 1930s to the 1950s. He was noted for his sophisticated, suggestive lyrics, clever rhymes and complex forms.
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Life and career[link]
Early years[link]
Porter was born in Peru, Indiana, the only child of a wealthy Baptist family.[1] His father, Samuel Fenwick Porter, was a druggist by trade;[2] his mother, Kate, was the indulged daughter of James Omar "J. O." Cole, "the richest man in Indiana", a coal and timber speculator who dominated the family.[3] J.O. built the couple a home at his Peru-area property, known as Westleigh Farms.[4] After high school, Porter returned to the property only for occasional visits.[5] Kate started Porter in musical training at an early age. He learned the violin at age six, the piano at eight and wrote his first operetta (with help from his mother) at 10. She falsified his recorded birth year, changing it from 1891 to 1893 to make him appear more precocious.[3] His father, who was a shy and unassertive man, played a lesser role in Porter’s upbringing, although as an amateur poet he may have influenced his son’s gifts for rhyme and meter.[2]
J. O. Cole wanted his grandson to become a lawyer,[3] and with that career in mind, he sent him to Worcester Academy in 1905. He became class valedictorian[3] and was rewarded by his grandfather with a tour of France, Switzerland and Germany.[6] After this he attended Yale University beginning in 1909, where he was a member of Scroll and Key and Delta Kappa Epsilon (Phi chapter) and sang both in the Yale Glee Club, of which he was elected president his senior year, and as an original member of the Whiffenpoofs. While at Yale, he wrote a number of student songs, including the football fight songs "Bulldog Bulldog" and "Bingo Eli Yale" (aka "Bingo, That's The Lingo!") that are still played at Yale today.[7] Porter wrote 300 songs while at Yale.[3] After graduating from Yale, Porter studied at Harvard Law School in 1913 (where he roomed with Dean Acheson).[3] He soon felt that he was not destined to be a lawyer, and, at the suggestion of the dean of the law school, Porter switched to Harvard's music faculty, where he studied harmony and counterpoint with Pietro Yon.[2] Kate Porter did not object to this move, but it was kept secret from J. O. Cole.[3]
In 1915, Porter's first song on Broadway, "Esmeralda", appeared in the revue Hands Up. The quick success was immediately followed by failure: his first Broadway production, in 1916, See America First, a "patriotic comic opera" modeled on Gilbert and Sullivan, with a book by T. Lawrason Riggs, was a flop, closing after two weeks.[8]
Paris and marriage[link]
In 1917, the year in which the U.S. entered World War I, Porter moved to Paris. He distributed relief supplies for three months, but the extent of his other war work is unclear. Some writers have been skeptical about Porter's claim to have served in the French Foreign Legion,[3][8] although the Legion itself lists Porter as one of its soldiers[9] and displays his portrait at its museum in Aubagne.[10] By some accounts, he served in North Africa and was transferred to the French Officers School at Fontainebleau, teaching gunnery to American soldiers.[11] An obituary notice in The New York Times said that, while in the Legion, "he had a specially constructed portable piano made for him so that he could carry it on his back and entertain the troops in their bivouacs."[12] Another account, given by Porter, is that he joined the recruiting department of the American Aviation Headquarters, but, according to his biographer Stephen Citron, there is no record of his joining this or any other branch of the forces.[13]
Porter maintained a luxury apartment in Paris, where he entertained lavishly. His parties were extravagant and scandalous, with "much gay and bisexual activity, Italian nobility, cross-dressing, international musicians, and a large surplus of recreational drugs".[3] In 1918, he met Linda Lee Thomas, a rich, Louisville, Kentucky-born divorcée eight years his senior,[1] whom he married the following year. She was in no doubt about Porter's homosexuality,[14] but it was mutually advantageous for them to marry: for Linda it offered continued social status and a partner who was the antithesis of her abusive first husband; for Porter it brought a respectable heterosexual front in an era when homosexuality was not publicly acknowledged. They were, moreover, genuinely devoted to each other and remained married from December 19, 1919 until Linda's death in 1954.[3] Linda remained protective of her social position, and believing that classical music might be a more prestigious outlet than Broadway for her husband's talents, she tried to use her connections to find him suitable teachers, including Igor Stravinsky, but was unsuccessful. Finally, Porter enrolled at the Schola Cantorum in Paris where he studied orchestration and counterpoint with Vincent d'Indy.[2] Meanwhile, Porter's first big hit was the song "Old-Fashioned Garden" from the revue Hitchy-Koo in 1919.[1] In 1920, he contributed the music of several songs to the musical A Night Out.[15]
Marriage did not diminish Porter's taste for extravagant luxury. The Porter home on the rue Monsieur near Les Invalides was a palatial house with platinum wallpaper and chairs upholstered in zebra skin.[12] In 1923, Porter came into an inheritance from his grandfather, and the Porters began living in rented palaces in Venice. He once hired the entire Ballets Russes to entertain his house guests, and for a party at Ca' Rezzonico, which he rented for $4,000 a month ($55,000 in current value), he hired 50 gondoliers to act as footmen and had a troupe of tight-rope walkers perform in a blaze of lights.[12]
Porter received few commissions for songs in the years immediately after his marriage. He had the occasional number interpolated into other writers' revues in England and the U.S. For a C. B. Cochran show in 1921, he had two successes with the comedy numbers "The Blue Boy Blues" and "Olga, Come Back to the Volga".[16] In 1923, in collaboration with Gerald Murphy, he composed a short ballet, originally titled Landed and then Within the Quota, satirically depicting the adventures of an immigrant to America who becomes a film star.[17] The work, written for the Swedish Ballet company, lasts about 16 minutes. It was orchestrated by Charles Koechlin and shared the same opening night as Milhaud's La création du monde.[18] Porter's work was one of the earliest symphonic jazz-based compositions, predating George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue by four months, and well received by both French and American reviewers after its premiere at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in October 1923.[18][19] After a successful New York performance the following month, the Swedish Ballet company toured the work in the U.S., performing it 69 times. A year later the company disbanded, and the score was lost until it was reconstructed from Porter's and Koechlin's manuscripts between 1966 and 1990, with help from Milhaud among others.[20] Porter had less success with his work on Greenwich Village Follies (1924). He wrote most of the original score, but his songs were gradually dropped during the Broadway run, and by the time of the post-Broadway tour in 1925, all his numbers had been deleted.[21]
Broadway success[link]
At the age of 36, Porter reintroduced himself to Broadway in 1928 with the musical Paris. It was commissioned at the instigation of its star, Irène Bordoni. She had wanted Rodgers and Hart to write the songs, but they were unavailable, and Porter's agent persuaded Bordoni's impresario husband to hire Porter instead.[22] His work on the show was interrupted by the death of his father at the age of 69 in August 1928; Porter hurried back to Indiana to comfort his mother, before returning to work on the songs for the show. These included "Let's Misbehave" and one of his best-known list songs, "Let's Do It", which was introduced by Bordoni and Arthur Margetson.[23] The show opened on Broadway on October 8, 1928. The Porters did not attend the first night because Porter was in Paris supervising another show for which he had been commissioned, La Revue at the Ambassadeurs nightclub.[24] Both shows were successes, and, in Citron's phrase, Porter was finally "accepted into the upper echelon of Broadway songwriters".[25] After this, Cochran wanted more from Porter than isolated extra songs; he planned a West End extravaganza similar to Ziegfeld's shows, with a Porter score and a large international cast led by Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale and Tilly Losch. The show, Wake Up and Dream ran for 263 performances in London, after which Cochran transferred it to New York. There, business was badly affected by the 1929 Wall Street crash,[26] and the show ran for only 136 performances. From Porter's point of view it was nonetheless a success, as his song "What is This Thing Called Love?" became immensely popular independently of the show.[27]
Porter's new fame brought him offers from Hollywood, but as his score for Paramount's The Battle of Paris was undistinguished, and its star, Gertrude Lawrence, was miscast, the film was not a success.[28] Citron expresses the view that Porter was not interested in cinema and "noticeably wrote down for the movies."[29] Still on a Gallic theme, Porter's last Broadway show of the 1920s was Fifty Million Frenchmen (1929), for which he wrote 28 numbers, including "You Do Something to Me", "You've Got That Thing" and "The Tale of the Oyster".[30] The show received mixed notices. One critic wrote, "the lyrics alone are enough to drive anyone but P.G. Wodehouse into retirement", but others dismissed the songs as "pleasant" and "not an outstanding hit song in the show". As it was a lavish and expensive production, nothing less than full houses would suffice, and after only three weeks the producers announced that they would close it. Irving Berlin, who was an admirer and champion of Porter, took out a paid press advertisement calling the show "The best musical comedy I've heard in years.... One of the best collections of song numbers I have ever listened to". This saved the show, which ran for 254 performances, considered a successful run at the time.[31]
1930s[link]
Ray Goetz, producer of Paris and Fifty Million Frenchmen, whose success had kept him solvent when other producers were bankrupted by the post-crash slump in Broadway business, invited Porter to write a musical show about the other city that he knew and loved: New York. Goetz offered the team with whom Porter had last worked, Herbert Fields writing the book and Porter's old friend Monty Woolley directing.[32] The New Yorkers (1930) acquired instant notoriety for including a song about a streetwalker, "Love for Sale". Originally performed by Kathryn Crawford in a street setting, critical disapproval led Goetz to reassign the number to Elizabeth Welch in a nightclub scene. The lyric was considered too explicit for radio at the time, though it was recorded and aired as an instrumental and rapidly became a standard.[33] Porter often referred to it as his favorite of his songs.[34] The New Yorkers also included the hit "I Happen to Like New York".[35]
Next came Fred Astaire's last stage show, Gay Divorce (1932). It featured a hit that became Porter's best-known song, "Night and Day".[36] Despite mixed press (some critics were reluctant to accept Astaire without his previous partner, his sister Adele), the show ran for a profitable 248 performances, and the film rights were sold to RKO Pictures.[37] Porter followed this with a West End show for Gertrude Lawrence, Nymph Errant (1933), presented by Cochran at the Adelphi Theatre, where it ran for 154 performances. Among the hit songs Porter composed for the show were "Experiment" and "The Physician" for Lawrence, and "Solomon" for Elizabeth Welch.[38]
In 1934, producer Vinton Freedley came up with a new approach to producing musicals. Instead of commissioning book, music and lyrics and then casting the show, Freedley sought to create an ideal musical with stars and writers all engaged from the outset.[39] The stars he wanted were Ethel Merman, William Gaxton and comedian Victor Moore. He planned a story around a shipwreck and a desert island, and for the book he turned to P. G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton. For the songs, he decided on Porter. By dint of telling each of these that he had already signed the others, Freedley gathered his ideal team together.[40] A drastic last-minute rewrite was necessitated by a major shipping accident, which dominated the news and made Bolton and Wodehouse's book seem tasteless.[41] Nevertheless, the show, Anything Goes, was an immediate hit. Porter wrote what is thought by many to be his greatest score of this period. The New Yorker magazine said, "Mr. Porter is in class by himself",[42] and Porter himself subsequently called it one of his two perfect shows, along with the later Kiss Me, Kate.[42] Its songs include "I Get a Kick out of You", "All Through the Night", "You're the Top" (one of his best-known list songs), and "Blow, Gabriel, Blow", as well as the title number.[43] The show ran for 420 performances in New York (a particularly long run in the 1930s) and 261 in London.[44] Porter, despite his lessons in orchestration from d'Indy, did not orchestrate his musicals. Anything Goes was orchestrated by Robert Russell Bennett and Hans Spialek.[45] Now at the height of his success, Porter was able to enjoy the opening night of his musicals; he would make a grand entrance and sit in front, apparently relishing the show as much as any audience member. Russel Crouse commented, "Cole's opening-night behaviour is as indecent as that of a bridegroom who has a good time at his own wedding."[42]
Anything Goes was the first of five Porter shows featuring Merman. He loved her loud, brassy voice and wrote many numbers that featured her strengths.[46] Jubilee (1935), written with Moss Hart while on a cruise around the world, was not a major hit, running for only 169 performances, but it featured two songs that have since become standards, "Begin the Beguine" and "Just One of Those Things".[47] Red Hot And Blue (1936), featuring Merman, Jimmy Durante and Bob Hope, ran for 183 performances and introduced "It's De-Lovely", "Down in the Depths (on the Ninetieth Floor)", and "Ridin' High".[48] The relative failure of these shows convinced Porter that his songs did not appeal to a broad enough audience. In an interview he said, "Sophisticated allusions are good for about six weeks ... more fun, but only for myself and about eighteen other people, all of whom are first-nighters anyway. Polished, urbane and adult playwriting in the musical field is strictly a creative luxury."[49]
Porter also wrote for Hollywood in the mid-1930s. His scores include those for Born to Dance (1936), featuring "You'd Be So Easy to Love" and "I've Got You Under My Skin", and Rosalie (1937), featuring "In the Still of the Night". In addition, he composed the cowboy song "Don't Fence Me In" for an unproduced movie in the 1930s, but it did not become a hit until Roy Rogers and Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters, as well as other artists, introduced it to the public in the 1940s. The Porters took up residence in Hollywood in December 1935, but Linda did not like the movie environment, and Porter's homosexual peccadillos, formerly very discreet, became less so, and so she retreated to their Paris house.[50] When his film assignment was finished, Porter hastened to Paris to make his peace with Linda, but she remained cool. They were shortly brought back together by a terrible accident suffered by Porter.[51]
On October 24, 1937, Porter was riding with Countess Edith di Zoppola and Duke Fulco di Verdura at Piping Rock Club in Locust Valley, New York, when his horse rolled on him and crushed his legs, leaving him substantially crippled and in constant pain for the rest of his life. Though doctors told Porter's wife and mother that his right leg would have to be amputated, and possibly the left one as well, he refused to have the procedure. Linda rushed from Paris to be with him, and supported him in his refusal of amputation.[52] He remained in the hospital for seven months and was then allowed to go home to his apartment at the Waldorf Towers.[53] He resumed work as soon as he could, finding it took his mind off his perpetual pain.[54]
Porter's first show after his accident was not a success. You Never Know (1938), starring Clifton Webb, Lupe Vélez and Libby Holman, ran for only 78 performances.[55] The score included the songs, "From Alpha to Omega" and "At Long Last Love".[56] He returned to success with Leave It to Me! (1938); the show introduced Mary Martin, singing "My Heart Belongs to Daddy", and other numbers included "Most Gentlemen Don't Like Love" and "From Now On".[57] Porter's last show of the 1930s was DuBarry Was a Lady (1939), a particularly risqué show, starring Merman and Bert Lahr.[58] After a pre-Broadway tour, during which it ran into trouble with the Boston censors,[59] it ran for 408 performances, beginning at the 46th Street Theatre.[60] The score included "But in the Morning, No" (which was banned from the airwaves), "Do I Love You?", "Well, Did You Evah!", "Katie Went to Haiti" and another of Porter's up-tempo list songs, "Friendship".[61] At the end of 1939, Porter contributed six songs to the film Broadway Melody of 1940 for Fred Astaire, George Murphy and Eleanor Powell.[62]
1940s and postwar[link]
Panama Hattie (1940) was Porter's longest-running hit so far, running in New York for 501 performances, despite the absence of any enduring Porter songs.[63] It starred Merman, with Arthur Treacher and Betty Hutton. Let's Face It! (1941), starring Danny Kaye, had an even better run, with 547 performances in New York.[64] This, too, lacked any numbers that became standards, and Porter always counted it among his lesser efforts.[65] Something for the Boys (1943), starring Merman, ran for 422 performances, and Mexican Hayride (1944), starring Bobby Clark, with June Havoc, ran for 481 performances.[66] These shows, too, are short of Porter standards. The critics did not pull their punches; they complained about the lack of hit tunes and the generally low standard of Porter's scores.[67] After two flops, Seven Lively Arts (1944) (which featured the standard "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye") and Around the World (1946), many thought that Porter's best period was over.[68]
In between his Broadway shows of the 1940s, Porter again wrote for Hollywood. His film scores of this period were You'll Never Get Rich (1941) with Astaire and Rita Hayworth, Something to Shout About (1943) with Don Ameche, Janet Blair and William Gaxton, and Mississippi Belle (1943–44), which was abandoned before filming began.[69] He also cooperated in the making of the film Night and Day (1946), a largely fictional biography of Porter, with Cary Grant implausibly cast in the lead. The critics scoffed, but the film was a huge success, chiefly because of the wealth of vintage Porter numbers in it.[70] The success of the biopic contrasted severely with the failure of Vincente Minnelli's film The Pirate, in 1948, in which five new Porter songs received little attention.[71]
From this low spot, Porter made a conspicuous comeback, in 1948, with Kiss Me, Kate. It was by far his most successful show, running for 1,077 performances in New York and 400 in London.[72] The production won the Tony Award for best musical (the first Tony awarded in that category), and Porter won for best composer and lyricist. The score includes "Another Op'nin', Another Show", "Wunderbar", "So In Love", "We Open in Venice", "Tom, Dick or Harry", "I've Come to Wive It Wealthily in Padua", "Too Darn Hot", "Always True to You (in My Fashion)", and "Brush Up Your Shakespeare".[73]
Porter began the 1950s with Out Of This World (1950), which had some good numbers but too much camp and vulgarity,[74] and was not greatly successful. His next show, Can-Can (1952), featuring "C'est Magnifique" and "It's All Right with Me", was another hit, running for 892 performances.[75] Porter's last original Broadway production, Silk Stockings (1955), featuring "All of You", was also successful, with a run of 477 performances.[76] The film High Society (1956), starring Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Grace Kelly, had Porter's last major hit song, "True Love".[1] The film was later adapted as a stage musical of the same name. Porter wrote numbers for the film Les Girls (1957) with Gene Kelly. His final score was for a CBS television color special, Aladdin (1958).[77]
Last years[link]
Porter's mother died in 1952, and his wife died from emphysema in 1954.[78] By 1958, Porter's injuries caused a series of ulcers on his right leg. After 34 operations, it had to be amputated and replaced with an artificial limb.[79] His friend Noël Coward visited him in the hospital and wrote in his diary, "The lines of ceaseless pain have been wiped from his face.... I am convinced that his whole life will cheer up and that his work will profit accordingly."[80] In fact, Porter never wrote another song after the amputation and spent the remaining six years of his life in relative seclusion, seeing only intimate friends.[79] He continued to live in the Waldorf Towers in New York in his memorabilia-filled apartment. On weekends he often visited an estate in the Berkshires, and he stayed in California during the summers.[12]
Porter died of kidney failure on October 15, 1964, at the age of 73 in Santa Monica, California. He is interred in Mount Hope Cemetery in his native Peru, Indiana, between his wife and father, even though Porter was not close to his father.[81]
Tributes and legacy[link]
Many artists have recorded Porter songs, and dozens have released entire albums of his songs.[82] In 1956, the album Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook was released by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald. She followed this in 1972 with another Porter collection, Ella Loves Cole. Among the many album collections of Porter songs are the following: Oscar Peterson Plays the Cole Porter Songbook (1959); Anita O'Day Swings Cole Porter with Billy May (1959); All Through the Night: Julie London Sings the Choicest of Cole Porter (1965); Rosemary Clooney Sings the Music of Cole Porter (1982); and Anything Goes: Stephane Grappelli & Yo-Yo Ma Play (Mostly) Cole Porter (1989).[82] In 1990 Dionne Warwick released an album called Dionne Sings Cole Porter. In that same year Red Hot + Blue was released featuring 20 Cole Porter songs recorded by artists such as U2, Annie Lennox and Shane MacGowan as a benefit CD for AIDS research. Another collection is Frank Sinatra Sings the Select Cole Porter (1996). John Barrowman, who played "Jack" in the 2004 film De-Lovely released a collection of Cole Porter songs, "John Barrowman Swings Cole Porter," in October 2004.
Judy Garland performed a medley of Porter's songs at the 37th Academy Awards, the first Oscars ceremony held following Porter's death. In contrast with the highly embroidered and sanitized screen biography in Night and Day, his life was chronicled more realistically in De-Lovely, a 2004 Irwin Winkler film starring Kevin Kline as Porter and Ashley Judd as Linda.[83] In 1980, Porter's music was used for the score of Happy New Year, based on the Philip Barry play Holiday. The Cole Porter Festival is held every year during the second weekend of June in his hometown of Peru, Indiana. The festival fosters music and art appreciation by celebrating Porter's life and music. In December 2010, his portrait was added to the Hoosier Heritage Gallery in the office of the Governor of Indiana.[84] Porter appears as a character in Woody Allen's 2011 film Midnight in Paris.[85]
Singers who have paid tribute to Porter in their work include the Swedish pop group Gyllene Tider, which recorded a song called Flickan i en Cole Porter-sång (That girl from the Cole Porter song) in 1982. In country singer Jo Dee Messina's song "These Are the Days", the protagonist reveals that she sings old Cole Porter songs. He is referenced in the song "The Call of the Wild" (Merengue) by David Byrne on his 1989 album Rei Momo. He is also mentioned in the song "Tonite It Shows" by Mercury Rev on their 1998 album Deserter's Songs. Many events commemorated the centenary of Porter's birth, for example the halftime show of the 1991 Orange Bowl.[86][87]
Porter was a Steinway artist, performing exclusively on Steinway pianos. His own Steinway piano is currently in the lobby of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.[88][89]
Notable songs[link]
Shows listed are stage musicals unless otherwise noted. Where the show was later made into a film, the year refers to the stage version. A complete list of Porter's works is in the Library of Congress (see also the Cole Porter Collection).[90]
A far more comprehensive list of Cole Porter songs, along with their date of composition and original show, is available online at the "Cole Porter Songlist Page".[91]
Notes[link]
- ^ a b c d Derbyshire, John. "Oh, the Songs!", National Review Online, July 28, 2004, accessed May 27, 2010
- ^ a b c d Shaftel, Matthew. "From Inspiration to Archive: Cole Porter's 'Night and Day'", Journal of Music Theory, Duke University Press, Volume 43, No. 2 (Autumn, 1999), pp. 315–47, accessed March 7, 2011 (Subscription required)
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Bell, J. X. "Cole Porter Biography", The Cole Porter Resource Site, accessed March 7, 2011
- ^ Schwartz, p. 11
- ^ Schwartz, p. 18
- ^ "The Theater: The Professional Amateur", Time magazine, January 31, 1949
- ^ Ewen, David. "Cole Porter: The Great Sophisticate", from The Story of America's Musical Theater. New York, Chilton Company, 1961. pp. 134–39.
- ^ a b Root, Deane L. and Gerald Bordman. "Porter, Cole (Albert)", Grove Music Online, accessed May 21, 2010 (requires subscription)
- ^ French Foreign Legion Official web site
- ^ French Foreign Legion Official web site
- ^ Legion of the Lost
- ^ a b c d "Obituary: Cole Porter is Dead; Songwriter Was 72", The New York Times, October 16, 1964
- ^ Citron, p. 48
- ^ Porter had "frequent homosexual encounters" (Citron, p. 142); see also Schwartz, p.114)
- ^ "Cole Porter – The Twenties", The Stephen Sondheim Reference Guide, accessed February 28, 2011
- ^ Citron, p. 58
- ^ Kimball (1991), pp. 4–5
- ^ a b Kimball (1991), p. 5
- ^ The British classical music journal The Musical Times wrote, "There was plenty of excitement of a certain kind – at least for the more excitable spectators". See "Paris", The Musical Times, December 1923, p. 874
- ^ Kimball (1991), p. 6
- ^ Kimball (1984), p. 85
- ^ Citron, p. 73
- ^ Kimball (1984), pp. 101 and 104
- ^ Citron, pp. 74 and 79
- ^ Citron, p. 78
- ^ The Porters were not greatly affected by the crash, having their assets in safe investments and held in a number of foreign banks, which remained solvent: see Citron, p. 85
- ^ Citron, pp 80–82
- ^ Citron, pp. 82–83
- ^ Citron, p. 83
- ^ Kimball (1984), pp. 117–29
- ^ Citron, p. 84
- ^ Citron, p. 100
- ^ Citron, p. 101
- ^ Kimball (1984), p. 145
- ^ Kimball (1984), p. 147
- ^ In 1999, Matthew Shaftel wrote, "Less than two months after the show's opening ... the song was featured on two best-selling recordings and was at the top of sheet music sales. Since then, 83 artists have registered with the [ASCAP] in order to legally perform and record "Night and Day." [Even] today, more than 65 years after its composition, the song earns a stunning six figures, making it Warner Brothers' "crown jewel," and placing it on ASCAP's list of top money-earners of all time." Shaftel, Matthew. "From Inspiration to Archive: Cole Porter's 'Night and Day'," Journal of Music Theory, Vol. 43, No. 2 (Autumn, 1999), pp. 315–47, accessed March 8, 2011 (Subscription required)
- ^ Citron, p. 105. The film version, starring Astaire and Ginger Rogers dropped all of Porter's score except "Night and Day".
- ^ Kimball (1984), pp. 158–62
- ^ Citron, p. 108
- ^ Citron, p. 109
- ^ Bolton and Wodehouse were by then engaged in other work, and Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse rewrote the book almost completely: see Citron, p. 110
- ^ a b c Citron, p. 110
- ^ Kimball (1984), pp. 167–76
- ^ Citron, p. 111
- ^ McGlinn, John (1989), "The Original Anything Goes: A Classic Restored", Notes to EMI CD CDC 7 49848 2. Other Porter shows were orchestrated by Maurice B. DePackh, Walter Paul, Don Walker and Philip J. Lang: see Kimball (1991) pp. 2–3. Porter, however, would check the orchestral parts and amend them as he felt necessary. (Shaftel, Matthew. "From Inspiration to Archive: Cole Porter's 'Night and Day'," Journal of Music Theory, Vol. 43, No. 2 (Autumn, 1999), pp. 315–47, accessed March 8, 2011 (Subscription required))
- ^ Citron, p. 141
- ^ Kimball (1984), pp. 183–96
- ^ Kimball (1984), pp. 205–16
- ^ Kimball (1984), p. 205.
- ^ Citron, p. 143
- ^ Citron, p. 144
- ^ Citron, p. 145
- ^ Linda, appraising the deteriorating political outlook in Europe, closed the Paris house in April 1939: see Citron, p. 168
- ^ Citron, p. 162
- ^ Kimball (1984), p. 225
- ^ Kimball (1984), pp. 227 and 229
- ^ Kimball (1984), pp. 241 and 243
- ^ Citron, p. 184
- ^ Kimball (1984), p. 260
- ^ Kimball (1984), p. 256
- ^ Kimball (1984), pp. 259–67
- ^ Kimball (1984), pp. 252–54
- ^ Citron, p. 185
- ^ Kimball (1984), p. 299
- ^ Citron, p. 189
- ^ Kimball (1984), pp. 320 and 343
- ^ Citron, p. 190
- ^ Citron, p. 193
- ^ Kimball (1984), pp. 295, 313 and 335
- ^ Citron, pp. 211–14
- ^ Citron, p. 215
- ^ Citron, p. 419
- ^ Kimball (1984), pp. 387–99
- ^ Citron, p. 220
- ^ Kimball (1984), p. 422
- ^ Kimball (1984), p. 438
- ^ Kimball (1984), p. 468
- ^ Citron, pp. 239 and 242
- ^ a b Citron, p. 249
- ^ Coward, p. 379
- ^ Schwartz, p. 269
- ^ a b List of Cole Porter collections at Sondheimguide.com, accessed June 9, 2011
- ^ Johnston, Sheila. "How Cole Porter got his kicks?" All About Jewish Theatre (2004), accessed May 27, 2010
- ^ [1] youtube.com
- ^ "The Better Life", The New Yorker, May 23, 2011
- ^ Kimball, Robert. "Cole Porter, College Man", Yale Alumni Magazine, November 1992, accessed May 17, 2012
- ^ Holland, Bernard. "A Hoosier Hurrah on Cole Porter's Centennial", The New York Times, June 9, 1991, accessed May 17, 2012
- ^ [2]. Hotels.about.com
- ^ [3]. Bestatnewyorkcitybreaks.co.uk
- ^ All of the songs below (except for "Come to the Supermarket", which is listed in this compilation), are included in one or more of the compilations of Porter songs listed at "A Cole Porter Bibliography" on Soundheimguide.com, accessed March 10, 2011
- ^ "Cole Porter Songlist Page". Accessed May 27, 2010
References[link]
- Citron, Stephen (2005). Noel & Cole: the Sophisticates. Milwaukee: Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN 0-634-09302.
- Coward, Noël; Graham Payne and Sheridan Morley (eds.) (1982). The Noël Coward Diaries (1941–1969). London: Methuen. ISBN 0-297-78142-1.
- Kimball, Robert (ed.) (1984). The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter. New York: Vintage Books. ISBN 0-394-72764-9.
- Kimball, Robert (2001). Cole Porter: Overtures and Ballet Music, Liner note to EMI CD CDC 7 54300 2. London: EMI Records.
- Schwartz, Charles (1977). Cole Porter: A Biography. New York: Da Capo Press. ISBN ISBN 0-306-80097-7.
External links[link]
- Cole Porter
- Cole Porter discography at Discogs
- Cole Porter at the Internet Broadway Database
- Cole Porter at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
- Cole Porter at the Internet Movie Database
- Cole Porter Birthplace & Museum
- Cole Porter Online Archive
- Gay Greats—Cole Porter
- Cole Porter Festival
- The Cole Porter Collection at Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, Yale University
| Persondata | |
|---|---|
| Name | Porter, Cole |
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| Short description | |
| Date of birth | June 9, 1891 |
| Place of birth | Peru, Indiana, U.S. |
| Date of death | October 15, 1964 |
| Place of death | Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
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