The definitive biography of Cole Porter – the urbane American composer of musical comedies and of over songs – which reveals the darker side of the star whose life and work epitomizes the romance of Café Society.
Cole Porter – composer of Night and Day, Easy to Love and I’ve Got You Under My Skin – is familiar to three generations. His tunes conjure up romance, glamour and cultivated sensuality.
This biography charts Porter’s life, beginning on a fruit farm in Indiana and moving on to Yale, where his social charm and musical gifts earned him leadership of the Glee Club. From Yale he moved to Harvard, where he roomed with Dean Acheson, and on to the School of Music and the Paris Conservatoire to study music theory, history, harmony and counterpoint.
In , Porter married the rich and beautiful Linda Thomas. The pair spent a decade roaming glamorous, bohemian Europe and Porter, sponsored by Irving Berlin among others, experienced the beginnings of success with his songs before making his name in the s with hit shows like Anything Goes. A riding accident left him in constant pain, but he still continued to write shows like Kiss Me Kate and Si
Cole Porter: The Definitive Biography
July 23,
This book had a slow start for the first pages. The book starts to get interesting when Cole graduates from Yale and starts his musical career. The life of Cole Porter was complex and high society. The lifestyle of the fabulous wealthy in the era of the early 's was that of servants, travel, luxuries, automobiles, on-going parties, etc. that this country may never see again. Cole Porter was raised in this lifestyle; therefore, finding defeat in his choice career in the beginning was humbly. But, with the love and encouragement of his mother and devoted wife he became a legend in Broadway musicals and show tunes.
His marriage to Linda was of convenience since Cole Porter was a homosexual. This was widely known in the theatre to his friends and family. But, of course in that day and time, it was not widely known to his fans. Many of the love ballads in his music were written for his male lovers. The book gave you an insight to a life lived to the fullest with relationships some would consider fragile. But, for Cole Porter, these relationships were dear to his heart.
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William McBrien
Cole Porter
Vintage
Charles Schwartz
Cole Porter: A Biography
Da Capo Press
Robert Kimball, Brendan Gill
Cole: A Biographical Essay
Overlook Press
Cary Grant, Alexis Smith
Night and Day
Warner Home Video
DVD
Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel
Kiss Me Kate ()
DVD
Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse
Silk Stockings ()
DVD
Kevin Kline, Ashley Judd, Jonathan Pryce, Kevin McNally
De-Lovely
MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD
Bing Crosby, Donald O'Connor, Zizi Jeanmaire, Mitzi Gaynor, Phil Harris
Anything Goes
Paramount
DVD
Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Juliet Prowse
Can-Can
20th Century Fox
DVD
Eleanor Powell, James Stewart
Born to Dance ()
VHS
Esther Williams, Van Johnson, Tony Martin
Easy to Love
MGM (Video & DVD)
VHS
Andrews Sisters, Jack Benny, Joe E. Brown, Eddie Cantor, Kitty Carlisle, Jack Carson, Dane Clark, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Faye Emerson, John Garfield, Sydney Greenstreet, Alan Hale, Paul Henreid, Robert Hutton
Hollywood Canteen
MGM (Warner)
VHS Includes "Don't Fe
Cole Porter: A Biography
The most richly told biography we have had of one of the most important and beguiling composer/lyricists of the century--the incomparable Cole Porter, whose songs were the essence of wit and sophistication and whose life was marked by tragedy, courage, sorrow, and secrecy. McBrien reveals the private Porter: his privileged Indiana youth (he composed his first song at ten). He went East to boarding school and to Yale, where he wrote the football anthems "Hail to Yale" and "Bull Dog," and show after show in which many of his classmates appeared--among them, Archibald MacLeish, Gerald Murphy, Dean Acheson, and Averell Harriman. Then a brief, unhappy stint at Harvard Law School. Off to Paris at twenty-six, and in crisis joining the French Foreign Legion during the First World War. Two years later, Cole Porter had his first Broadway hit. William McBrien's biography, the result of ten years of work and bursting with stories and scenes of Porter's life, takes us beyond the patina of Porter's very public career, beyond the high and low aristocratic worlds of Venice (Porter with Elsa Maxwell in together put Venice back on the map as the place to be), beyo
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