[20][n 4] Some writers have been skeptical about Porter's claim to have served in the French Foreign Legion,[5][19] but the Legion lists Porter as one of its soldiers and displays his portrait at its museum in Aubagne. They married on June 29, 1901, at Newport, Rhode Island. He planned a story about a shipwreck and a desert island, and for the book he turned to P. G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton. Thomas is portrayed by Alexis Smith in the 1946 film Night and Day and by Ashley Judd in the 2004 film De-Lovely. ... One of the best collections of song numbers I have ever listened to". That fall, he entered Yale University and lived in a single room at Garland's Lodging House at 242 York Street in New Haven, CT, and became a member of the Freshman Glee Club. [37] She had wanted Rodgers and Hart to write the songs, but they were unavailable, and Porter's agent persuaded Goetz to hire Porter instead. His musical "Anything Goes", performed at the Royal National Theatre, was awarded the 2002 London Critics Circle Award (Drama) for Best Musical. In April 1918 he joined the 32nd Field Artillery Regiment and worked with the Bureau of the Military Attache of the US.

Among the hit songs Porter composed for the show were "Experiment" and "The Physician" for Lawrence, and "Solomon" for Elisabeth Welch. [79] Porter's last show of the 1930s was DuBarry Was a Lady (1939), a particularly risqué show starring Merman and Bert Lahr. [44] Citron expresses the view that Porter was not interested in cinema and "noticeably wrote down for the movies.

[118][119] Joel Grey and a large cast of singers, dancers and marching bands, performed a tribute to Porter in Miami, Florida during the 57th King Orange Jamboree parade, whose theme was "Anything Goes".

In 1972, she released another collection, Ella Loves Cole. [32] The work, written for the Ballets suédois, lasts about 16 minutes. [27] The couple married the following year. She left an estate of over $1.5 million (over $14.3 million today) in which Cole inherited a lifetime interest. A young hotel worker named Glory Santos was assigned to his suite as room service concierge soon after he moved in.

He subsequently enlisted in the First Foreign Regiment, before moving to other regiments prior to his April 1919 discharge. [95], From this low spot, Porter made a conspicuous comeback in 1948 with Kiss Me, Kate. Cole Porter was born June 9, 1891, at Peru, Indiana, the son of pharmacist Samuel Fenwick Porter and Kate Cole. 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.

[13], Porter wrote 300 songs while at Yale,[5] including student songs such as the football fight songs "Bulldog"[16] and "Bingo Eli Yale" (aka "Bingo, That's The Lingo!") [24], Porter died of kidney failure on October 15, 1964, in Santa Monica, California, at the age of 73. Porter's other musicals include Fifty Million Frenchmen, DuBarry Was a Lady, Anything Goes, Can-Can and Silk Stockings. He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 7080 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California. Cole started riding horses at age six and began to studying piano at eight at Indiana's Marion Conservatory. [69][70] When his film assignment on Rosalie was finished in 1937, Porter hastened to Paris to make peace with Linda, but she remained cool. [62] 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". in 1929, "Night and Day" in 1932, "I Get A Kick Out Of You" in 1934, "Begin the Beguine" in 1935, "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" in 1938, "Don't Fence Me In" in 1944, "I Love Paris" in 1953, "I've Got You Under My Skin", In the Still of The Night", "You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To", "True Love", "Just One Of Those Things", "Anything Goes", "From This Moment On", "You're The Top", "Easy to Love" and many, many more.On October 24, 1937, taking a break from a re-write of what would be his weakest musical, "You Never Know", visiting as a guest at a countess' home, Piping Rock Club in Locust Valley, New York, he was badly injured in a fall while horseback-riding. Many of his songs became standards noted for their witty, urbane lyrics, and many of his scores found success on Broadway and in film. "From Night and Day to De-Lovely: cinematic representations of Cole Porter.
On April 3, 1958, he sustained his 33rd operation, and still suffering from chronic pain, his right leg was amputated. Her jewelry collection included pieces by Paul Flato. 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. He also composed scores for films from the 1930s to the 1950s, including Born to Dance (1936), which featured the song "You'd Be So Easy to Love"; Rosalie (1937), which featured "In the Still of the Night"; High Society (1956), which included "True Love"; and Les Girls (1957). 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. "Making claims on echoes: Dranem, Cole Porter and the biguine between the Antilles, France and the US.".
"[58], Anything Goes was the first of five Porter shows featuring Merman. Irving Berlin, who admired and championed Porter, took out a paid press advertisement calling the show "The best musical comedy I've heard in years.

Dean Acheson, later to be U.S. Secretary of State, lived in the same dorm with Porter and was a good friend of Porter.

- IMDb Mini Biography By: Porter was born in Peru, Indiana, the only surviving child of a wealthy family.

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