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Cole Porter
Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter. Many of his songs became standards noted for their witty, urbane lyrics, and many of his scores found success on Broadway and in Hollywood films.
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culture · American composer and songwriter (1891–1964) · playwright · composer · pianist · lyricist · songwriter · film score composer · writer · art collector · musician · also Cole Porter, Cole Albert Porter, Porter
Born 9 June 1891 · Died 15 October 1964 · Q215120
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2026· 3 entries
Playbill: Rarely Seen Cole Porter Musical Out of This World Will Get NYC Concert via Red Bull Theater
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The Guardian: Trump is determined to pursue his trade war – and he may be difficult to stop | Eduardo Porter
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2024· 1 entry
The Guardian: High Society review – a fizzing cocktail of comedy, Cole Porter and emotion
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2022· 1 entry
Released album “Cole Porter in Paris (Live at Théâtre du Châtelet)”.
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2021· 1 entry
The Guardian: Anything Goes review – Sutton Foster dazzles in Cole Porter’s fizzing tonic for our times
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2020· 1 entry
Released album “Work From Home with Cole Porter”.
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2016· 2 entries
The Guardian: Magdalena Kožená review – mezzo misbehaves, gently, with Cole Porter
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The Guardian: French-kiss Me Kate: Parisian theatre embraces Cole Porter
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2014· 1 entry
Porter was honored with a plaque on the Legacy Walk in Chicago, which celebrates LGBT achievers
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2011· 1 entry
And 2012; and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, with Hamlisch and Michael Feinstein, in 2012
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2010· 1 entry
Released album “An American New Year’s Eve”.
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2007· 1 entry
Released album “Cole Porter: Delovely Guitar”.
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2006· 2 entries
Released album “Night and Day: Thomas Hampson Sings Cole Porter”.
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Released album “Manhattan Melodies Songs of New York”.
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2005· 2 entries
Released album “Soho Collection: The Essential Cole Porter”.
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Released album “The Film Musicals Collection: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers”.
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2004· 3 entries
Released album “Cole Porter Songbook”.
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Released album “It’s De Lovely: The Authentic Cole Porter Collection”.
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Released album “Vacanze romane”.
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2003· 1 entry
Released album “Anything Goes (Original 2004 All Star Studio Cast)”.
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2002· 1 entry
Released album “But in the Morning, No: Cole Porter, Vol. 2”.
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2001· 1 entry
Released album “You Never Know”.
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2000· 1 entry
Released album “High Society / Can-Can / Pal Joey”.
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1999· 2 entries
Released album “Evil Under the Sun”.
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Released album “Reader's Digest Music Timeless Favorites”.
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1996· 2 entries
Released album “Kiss Me, Kate”.
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Released album “Kiss Me, Kate (Original 1996 Studio Cast) (Complete Recording)”.
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1995· 1 entry
Released album “Anything Goes”.
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1994· 2 entries
Released album “From This Moment On”.
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Released album “The Songs Of Cole Porter”.
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1993· 2 entries
Released album “Britten's Blues & Cabaret Songs & Songs by Cole Porter”.
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Released album “Frederick Fennell Conducts Cole Porter & George Gershwin: The Studio Recordings”.
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1992· 5 entries
Released album “Out of This World”.
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Released album “Centennial Gala Concert”.
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Released album “You’re the Top: Cole Porter in the 1930s”.
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Released album “Can-Can”.
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Released album “The World of Cole Porter / Night and Day”.
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1991· 2 entries
Released album “The Pirate”.
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Released album “Overtures and Ballet Music”.
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1990· 4 entries
Released album “Nymph Errant”.
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Released album “Silk Stockings”.
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Red Hot + Blue, released to benefit AIDS research, featured 20 Cole Porter songs recorded by artists such as U2 and Annie Lennox
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Released album “The Song Is... Cole Porter”.
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1989· 2 entries
Awarded Grammy Trustees Award (1989).
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Released album “Kiss Me Kate”.
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1988· 1 entry
Released album “Broadway!”.
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1980· 1 entry
Porter's music was used for the score of the musical Happy New Year
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1972· 1 entry
Released another collection, Ella Loves Cole
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1965· 2 entries
Released album “The Decline and Fall of the Entire World as Seen Through the Eyes of Cole Porter”.
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Shortly after Porter's death, Judy Garland performed a medley of Porter's songs at the 37th Academy Awards
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1964· 1 entry
Died 1964-10-15.
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1963· 1 entry
Released album “Kiss Me Kate (1963 Reprise Musical Repertory Theatre Cast)”.
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1958· 1 entry
Released album “Aladdin”.
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1956· 2 entries
By Ella Fitzgerald in Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook
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Released album “High Society”.
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1949· 2 entries
Awarded Tony Award for Best Original Score for Kiss Me, Kate (1949).
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Awarded Tony Award for Best Musical for Kiss Me, Kate (1949).
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1948· 1 entry
Made a triumphant comeback with his most successful musical, Kiss Me, Kate
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1939· 1 entry
And the next year bought a country home in the Berkshire mountains, near Williamstown, Massachusetts, which she decorated with elegant furnishings from their Paris home
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1937· 3 entries
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 cons
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Porter was left disabled and in constant pain, but he continued to work
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Porter hastened to Paris to make peace with Linda, but she remained cool
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1935· 1 entry
Using some of the songs from Fifty Million Frenchmen
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1934· 2 entries
But it did not become a hit until Roy Rogers sang it in the 1944 film Hollywood Canteen
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Producer Vinton Freedley came up with a new approach to producing musicals
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1923· 2 entries
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
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Porter came into an inheritance from his grandfather, and the Porters began living in rented palaces in Venice
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1921· 1 entry
Had two successes with the comedy numbers "The Blue Boy Blues" and "Olga, Come Back to the Volga"
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1920· 1 entry
Contributed the music of several songs to the musical A Night Out
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1918· 1 entry
Met Linda Lee Thomas, a rich, Louisville, Kentucky-born divorcée eight years his senior
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1917· 1 entry
When the United States entered World War I, Porter moved to Paris to work with the Duryea Relief organization
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1916· 1 entry
See America First, a "patriotic comic opera" modeled on Gilbert and Sullivan, with a book by T
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1915· 1 entry
Porter's first song on Broadway, "Esmeralda", appeared in the revue Hands Up
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1913· 1 entry
Where he roomed with future Secretary of State Dean Acheson
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1909· 1 entry
Porter majored in English, minored in music, and also studied French
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1891· 2 entries
Born 1891-06-09.
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The only surviving child of a wealthy family
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