Cole Porter was born June 9, 1891, at Peru, Indiana, the son of pharmacist Samuel Fenwick Porter and Kate Cole. Cole was raised on a 750-acre fruit ranch. Kate Cole married Samuel Porter in 1884 and had two children, Louis and Rachel, who both died in infancy. Porter's grandfather, J.G. Cole, was a multi-millionaire who made his fortune in the coal and western timber business...See full bio »
2007The Pirate: A Musical Treasure Chest
(video documentary short)
("Pirate Ballet", "Nina", "Mack the Black", "Voodoo" Outtake, "Be a Clown", "Mack the Black Ballet")
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Kiss Me Kate
(2003)
(music: "Another Op'nin', Another Show / Overture", "Why Can't You Behave", "Wunderbar", "So in Love", "We Open in Venice", "Tom, Dick and Harry", "I've Come to Wive It Wealthily in Padua", "I Hate Men", "Were Thine That Special Face", "Cantiamo d'Amore", "Kiss Me Kate" Act I Finale, "Too Darn Hot", "Where Is the Life That Late I Led?", "Always True to You in My Fashion", "From This Moment On", "Bianca", "Brush Up Your Shakespeare", "So in Love" reprise, "I Am Ashamed That Women Are So Simple", "Kiss Me Kate" Finale Ultimo / lyrics: "Another Op'nin', Another Show / Overture", "Why Can't You Behave", "Wunderbar", "So in Love", "We Open in Venice", "Tom, Dick and Harry", "I've Come to Wive It Wealthily in Padua", "I Hate Men", "Were Thine That Special Face", "Kiss Me Kate" Act I Finale, "Too Darn Hot", "Where Is the Life That Late I Led?", "Always True to You in My Fashion", "From This Moment On", "Bianca", "Brush Up Your Shakespeare", "So in Love" reprise, "Kiss Me Kate" Finale Ultimo)
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My Favorite Broadway: The Love Songs
(2001)
(music: "So In Love", "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" / lyrics: "So In Love", "Brush Up Your Shakespeare")
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The Fred Astaire Songbook
(1991)
(music: "Night and Day", "I've Got My Eyes on You" / lyrics: "Night and Day", "I've Got My Eyes on You")
2004De-Lovely
(writer: "In the Still of the Night" 1937, "Weren't We Fools" 1927, "Well Did You Evah!" 1939, "I Love Paris" 1953, "Easy to Love" 1936, "It's De-Lovely" 1936, "What is This Thing Called Love" 1929, "Let's Misbehave" 1928, "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love" 1928, "True Love" 1955, "Night and Day" 1932, "Anything Goes" 1934, "Begin the Beguine" 1935, "Be a Clown" 1947, "I Love You" 1943, "Just One of Those Things" 1935, "Experiment" 1933, "I Get a Kick out of You" 1934, "Love for Sale" 1930, "It's All Right with Me" 1953, "Why Shouldn't I" 1935, "Another Openin', Another Show" 1948, "So in Love" 1948, "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" 1944, "You're the Top" 1934, "Get out of Town" 1938, "Goodbye, Little Dream, Goodbye" 1936, "Blow, Gabriel, Blow" 1934 / music: "In the Still of the Night" 1937, "Weren't We Fools" 1927, "Well Did You Evah!" 1939, "I Love Paris" 1953, "Easy to Love" 1936, "It's De-Lovely" 1936, "What is This Thing Called Love" 1929, "Let's Misbehave" 1928, "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love" 1928, "True Love" 1955, "Night and Day" 1932, "Anything Goes" 1934, "Begin the Beguine" 1935, "Be a Clown" 1947, "I Love You" 1943, "Just One of Those Things" 1935, "Experiment" 1933, "I Get a Kick out of You" 1934, "Love for Sale" 1930, "It's All Right with Me" 1953, "Why Shouldn't I" 1935, "Another Openin', Another Show" 1948, "So in Love" 1948, "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" 1944, "You're the Top" 1934, "Get out of Town" 1938, "Goodbye, Little Dream, Goodbye" 1936, "Blow, Gabriel, Blow" 1934 / lyrics: "In the Still of the Night" 1937, "Weren't We Fools" 1927, "Well Did You Evah!" 1939, "I Love Paris" 1953, "Easy to Love" 1936, "It's De-Lovely" 1936, "What is This Thing Called Love" 1929, "Let's Misbehave" 1928, "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love" 1928, "True Love" 1955, "Night and Day" 1932, "Anything Goes" 1934, "Begin the Beguine" 1935, "Be a Clown" 1947, "I Love You" 1943, "Just One of Those Things" 1935, "Experiment" 1933, "I Get a Kick out of You" 1934, "Love for Sale" 1930, "It's All Right with Me" 1953, "Why Shouldn't I" 1935, "Another Openin', Another Show" 1948, "So in Love" 1948, "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" 1944, "You're the Top" 1934, "Get out of Town" 1938, "Goodbye, Little Dream, Goodbye" 1936, "Blow, Gabriel, Blow" 1934 / performer: "You're the Top" 1934)
1998The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg
(documentary)
(writer: "Night and Day", "It's D'Lovely", "Find Me a Primitive Man", "Begin the Beguine", "Ridin' High")
1998Little Voice
(music: "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" 1938 / lyrics: "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" 1938)
1996T'odio, amor meu
(TV movie)
(writer: "Et porto sota la pell I've Got You Under My Skin", "T'odio, amor meu", "Tu ho ets tot You're the Top", "Miss Otis ha dit Miss Otis Regrets", "Des d'aquest moment", "Cada cop que em dius adéu Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye", "Au, fem-ho! Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love", "Dia i nit Night and Day", "Tant d'amor So in Love", "No és bo per mi", "Tota la nit", "Venc amor", "Per mi ja està bé", "Això és el que hi ha")
1995Barbra: The Concert
(TV special documentary)
(music: "What Is This Thing Called Love?" 1929 - uncredited / lyrics: "What Is This Thing Called Love?" 1929 - uncredited)
1995Forget Paris
(writer: "Let's Do It", "Just One Of Those Things")
1994That's Entertainment! III
(documentary)
(writer: "Easy to Love" 1936 - uncredited, "Just One of Those Things" 1935 - uncredited, "Stereophonic Sound" 1955 - uncredited)
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Episode #2.3
(1976)
(writer: "Don't Fence Me In", "We Open in Venice")
1976That's Entertainment, Part II
(documentary)
(writer: "Be a Clown" 1948 - uncredited, "From This Moment On" 1951 - uncredited, "All of You" 1955 - uncredited, "Swingin' the Jinx Away" 1936 - uncredited, "You're Sensational" 1956 - uncredited, "Now You Has Jazz" 1956 - uncredited)
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The Pagan Rite
(1975)
(writer: "Let's Do It Let's Fall In Love")
1975At Long Last Love
(writer: "Lets Misbehave", "Which", "Well Did You Evah!", "Poor Young Millionaire", "Down In The Depths On The 90th Floor", "Just One Of Those Things", "I Get A Kick Of You", "Most Gentleman Dont Like Love", "A Picture Of Me Without You", "It's De-Lovely", "But In The Morning No", "From Alpha To Omega", "Friendship", "You're The Top", "Find Me A Primitive Man", "Etiquette", "Tomorrow", "At Long Last Love", "I Loved Him But He Didn't Love Me)
1974That's Entertainment!
(documentary)
(writer: "Rosalie" 1937 - uncredited, "Easy to Love" 1936 - uncredited, "Be a Clown" 1948 - uncredited, "Well, Did You Evah" 1939 - uncredited, "True Love" 1956 - uncredited / music: "Begin the Beguine" 1935 - uncredited, "The Pirate Ballet" 1948 - uncredited)
1974Blazing Saddles
(writer: "I Get a Kick Out of You" - uncredited)
1972Sleuth
(music: "Just one of these things", "You do something to me", "Anything goes" / lyrics: "Just one of these things", "You do something to me", "Anything goes")
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Soldiers in Greasepaint
(1960)
(writer: "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" - uncredited, "Don't Fence Me In" - uncredited)
1960Can-Can
(writer: "Montmart'" / music: "I Love Paris", "Maidens Typical of France", "Can-Can", "C'est Magnifique", "Apache Dance", "C'est Magnifique" reprise, "Live and Let Live", "You Do Something to Me", "Let's Do It", "It's All Right With Me", "Live and Let Live" reprise, "Come Along With Me", "Just One of Those Things", "Garden of Eden" ballet, "It's All Right With Me" reprise / lyrics: "I Love Paris", "Maidens Typical of France", "Can-Can", "C'est Magnifique", "Apache Dance", "C'est Magnifique" reprise, "Live and Let Live", "You Do Something to Me", "Let's Do It", "It's All Right With Me", "Live and Let Live" reprise, "Come Along With Me", "Just One of Those Things", "Garden of Eden" ballet, "It's All Right With Me" reprise)
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Episode dated 25 April 1958
(1958)
(writer: "You're the Top" - uncredited, "I Get a Kick Out of You" - uncredited, "Just One of Those Things" - uncredited)
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Episode #1.8
(1957)
(writer: "Night and Day" - uncredited)
1958Darby's Rangers
(music: "You Do Something to Me" - uncredited)
1957The Edsel Show
(TV special)
(writer: "Now You Has Jazz" - uncredited, "True Love" - uncredited, "I Love Paris" - uncredited, "I've Got You Under My Skin" - uncredited, "I Get a Kick out of You" - uncredited, "Just One of Those Things" - uncredited)
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Episode #1.3
(1957)
(writer: "You're the Top" - uncredited)
1957Les Girls
(music: "Les Girls" - uncredited, "Ça c'est l'amour" - uncredited, "Ladies in Waiting" - uncredited, "You're Just Too Too!" - uncredited, "Why Am I So Gone About that Gal?" - uncredited, "The Rope Dance" - uncredited, "Be a Clown" - uncredited / lyrics: "Les Girls" - uncredited, "Ça c'est l'amour" - uncredited, "Ladies in Waiting" - uncredited, "You're Just Too Too!" - uncredited, "Why Am I So Gone About that Gal?" - uncredited)
1957Silk Stockings
(writer: "Too Bad We Can't Go Back to Moscow" - uncredited, "Paris Loves Lovers" - uncredited, "Stereophonic Sound" - uncredited, "It's a Chemical Reaction that's all" - uncredited, "Satin and Silk" - uncredited, "Without Love" - uncredited, "Josephine" - uncredited, "Fated to Be Mated" - uncredited, "Siberia" - uncredited, "The Ritz Roll and Rock" - uncredited / music: "Red Blues" - uncredited / lyrics: "Red Blues" - uncredited / "All of You" - uncredited)
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The American Musical Comedy
(1956)
(music: "Ooh-La-La", "Another Op'nin, Another Show" / lyrics: "Ooh-La-La", "Another Op'nin, Another Show")
1956High Society
(writer: "High Society Calypso" - uncredited, "Little One" - uncredited, "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" - uncredited, "True Love" - uncredited, "I Love You Samantha" - uncredited, "Well, Did You Evah" - uncredited, "Mind If I Make Love To You" - uncredited, "Now You Has Jazz" - uncredited, "You're Sensational" - uncredited)
1956Anything Goes
(writer: "Anything Goes", "I Get A Kick Out Of You", "You're The Top", "It's De-lovely", "All Through The Night", "Dream Ballet Based on "Let's Do It" and "All Through The Night"", "Blow Gabriel Blow")
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Let's Face It
(1954)
(writer: "It's De-Lovely", "You Irritate Me", "Ev'rything I Love", "I've Got You Under My Skin", "Ace in the Hole", "Ev'rything I Love/Finale")
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Anything Goes
(1954)
("You're the Top", "Anything Goes")
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Episode #2.32
(1952)
(writer: "Begin the Beguine" - uncredited)
1953Kiss Me Kate
(music: "So in Love" - uncredited, "Too Darn Hot" - uncredited, "Why Can't You Behave" - uncredited, "Wunderbar" - uncredited, "So in Love reprise" - uncredited, "We Open in Venice" - uncredited, "Tom, Dick or Harry" - uncredited, "I've Come to Wive It Wealthily in Padua" - uncredited, "I Hate Men" - uncredited, "Were Thine That Special Face" - uncredited, "Finale Act One Kiss Me Kate" - uncredited, "Where Is the Life That Late I Led?" - uncredited, "Bianca" Instrumental - uncredited, "Were Thine That Special Face reprise" - uncredited, "Always True to You in My Fashion" - uncredited, "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" - uncredited, "From This Moment On" - uncredited, "Kiss Me Kate reprise" - uncredited / lyrics: "So in Love" - uncredited, "Too Darn Hot" - uncredited, "Why Can't You Behave" - uncredited, "Wunderbar" - uncredited, "So in Love reprise" - uncredited, "We Open in Venice" - uncredited, "Tom, Dick or Harry" - uncredited, "I've Come to Wive It Wealthily in Padua" - uncredited, "I Hate Men" - uncredited, "Were Thine That Special Face" - uncredited, "Finale Act One Kiss Me Kate" - uncredited, "Where Is the Life That Late I Led?" - uncredited, "Were Thine That Special Face reprise" - uncredited, "Always True to You in My Fashion" - uncredited, "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" - uncredited, "From This Moment On" - uncredited, "Kiss Me Kate reprise" - uncredited)
1948Luxury Liner
(writer: "I've Got You Under My Skin" - uncredited)
1948The Time of Your Life
(music: "What Is This Thing Called Love?" 1929 - uncredited / lyrics: "What Is This Thing Called Love?" 1929 - uncredited)
1948Winter Meeting
(music: "You Do Something to Me" - uncredited)
1948The Pirate
(writer: "Nina" - uncredited, "Mack the Black" - uncredited, "You Can Do No Wrong" - uncredited, "Be a Clown" - uncredited, "Love of My Life" - uncredited, "Pirate Ballet" - uncredited)
1946The Show-Off
(writer: "I've Got You Under My Skin")
1946Humoresque
(music: "You Do Something to Me" - uncredited, "What Is This Thing Called Love?" - uncredited / lyrics: "You Do Something to Me" - uncredited, "What Is This Thing Called Love?" - uncredited)
1946Night and Day
(writer: "Night and Day" 1932 - uncredited, "Bull Dog" 1911 - uncredited, "I'm in Love Again" 1924 - uncredited, "In the Still of the Night" 1937 - uncredited, "An Old Fashioned Garden" 1919 - uncredited, "You've Got That Thing" 1929 - uncredited, "Let's Do It" 1928 - uncredited, "You Do Something to Me" 1929 - uncredited, "I'm Unlucky at Gambling" 1929 - uncredited, "Miss Otis Regrets" 1934 - uncredited, "I Get a Kick out of You" 1934 - uncredited, "What Is This Thing Called Love?" 1929 - uncredited, "I've Got You Under My Skin" 1936 - uncredited, "Rosalie" 1937 - uncredited, "Just One of Those Things" 1935 - uncredited, "Anything Goes" 1934 - uncredited, "You're the Top" 1934 - uncredited, "Easy to Love" 1934 - uncredited, "Love for Sale" 1930 - uncredited, "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" 1938 - uncredited, "Do I Love You?" 1939 - uncredited, "Begin the Beguine" 1935 - uncredited / music: "Blow, Gabriel, Blow" 1934 - uncredited, "Don't Fence Me In" 1934 - uncredited)
1943Something to Shout About
(writer: "I Always Knew", "Hasta Luego" / "You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To")
1943The Hard Way
(writer: "I Get a Kick Out of You" 1934 - uncredited, "Begin the Beguine" 1935 - uncredited, "Night and Day" 1932 - uncredited, "Love for Sale" - uncredited)
1942Panama Hattie
(writer: "They Ain't Done it Right by Our Nell" / music: "I've Still Got My Health" 1940, "Just One of Those Things" 1935, "Fresh as a Daisy" 1940, "Let's Be Buddies" 1940 / lyrics: "I've Still Got My Health" 1940, "Just One of Those Things" 1935, "Fresh as a Daisy" 1940, "Let's Be Buddies" 1940)
1942Wings for the Eagle
(writer: "I Get a Kick Out of You" 1934 - uncredited)
1942The Big Shot
(music: "Night and Day" - uncredited)
1942Juke Girl
(writer: "Begin the Beguine" 1935 - uncredited)
1942Winning Your Wings
(short)
(writer: "I Get a Kick Out of You" 1934 - uncredited)
1942Born to Sing
(writer: "I've Got You Under My Skin")
1941You'll Never Get Rich
(writer: "Boogie Barcarolle" 1941, "March Milastaire A-Stairable Rag" 1941 / music: "Dream Dancing" 1941, "Shootin' the Works for Uncle Sam" 1941, "Since I Kissed My Baby Goodbye" 1941, "So Near and Yet So Far" 1941, "The Wedding Cake Walk" 1941 / lyrics: "Dream Dancing" 1941, "Shootin' the Works for Uncle Sam" 1941, "Since I Kissed My Baby Goodbye" 1941, "So Near and Yet So Far" 1941, "The Wedding Cake Walk" 1941)
1940Broadway Melody of 1940
(writer: "Please Don't Monkey with Broadway" 1939 - uncredited, "Between You and Me" 1939 - uncredited, "I've Got My Eye on You" 1939 - uncredited, "I Concentrate on You" 1939 - uncredited, "Begin the Beguine" 1935 - uncredited)
1937Rosalie
(writer: "Rosalie" 1937 - uncredited, "Who Knows?" 1937 - uncredited, "I've a Strange New Rhythm in My Heart" 1937 - uncredited, "Why Should I Care?" 1937 - uncredited, "Spring Love Is in the Air" 1937 - uncredited, "Close" 1937 - uncredited, "In the Still of the Night" 1937 - uncredited, "It's All Over But the Shouting" 1937 - uncredited, "To Love or Not To Love" 1937 - uncredited)
1936Born to Dance
(music: "Rolling Home" 1936 - uncredited, "Rap, Tap on Wood" 1936 - uncredited, "Hey, Babe, Hey" 1936, "Entrance of Lucy James" 1936 - uncredited, "Love Me, Love My Pekinese" 1936 - uncredited, "Easy to Love" 1936 - uncredited, "I've Got You Under My Skin" 1936 - uncredited, "Swingin' the Jinx Away" 1936 - uncredited / lyrics: "Rolling Home" 1936 - uncredited, "Rap, Tap on Wood" 1936 - uncredited, "Hey, Babe, Hey" 1936, "Entrance of Lucy James" 1936 - uncredited, "Love Me, Love My Pekinese" 1936 - uncredited, "Easy to Love" 1936 - uncredited, "I've Got You Under My Skin" 1936 - uncredited, "Swingin' the Jinx Away" 1936 - uncredited)
1936Anything Goes
("Anything Goes" partial, "I Get a Kick Out of You", "There'll Always Be A Lady Fair, "You're the Top" with new lyrics)
1934The Gay Divorcee
(music: "Night and Day" 1932 / lyrics: "Night and Day" 1932)
1934Paree, Paree
(short)
(writer: "You Do Something to Me" - uncredited, "Paree, What Did You Do To Me?" - uncredited, "Find Me a Primitive Man" - uncredited, "You've Got That Thing" - uncredited)
1933Grand Slam
(music: "Let's Do It Let's Fall in Love" - uncredited)
193150 Million Frenchmen
(writer: "You Do Something to Me" 1929 - uncredited, "Why Shouldn't I Have You?" 1929 - uncredited, "You've Got That Thing" 1929 - uncredited, "Paree, What Have You Done To Me?" 1929 - uncredited, "The American Express" 1929 - uncredited)
1929Battle of Paris
(music: "Here Comes The Bandwagon", "They All Fall In Love" / lyrics: "Here Comes The Bandwagon", "They All Fall In Love")
1929Paris
(writer: "Don't Look at Me That Way" - uncredited)
(1915). Stage Play: Miss Information. Comedy. Written by Paul Dickey and Charles W. Goddard. Music by Jerome Kern. Lyrics by Elsie Janis. Additional music by Cole Porter, Frank Tours, Herman Finck and Riccardo Drigo. Additional lyrics by Cole Porter, Fred E. Weatherly and Arthur Wimperis. Musical...
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I am the most enthusiastic person in the world. I like everything as long as it's different.
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Lived at the Waldorf-Astoria Tower in New York City from 1939 through 1964. A young hotel worker named Glory Santos was assigned to his suite as room service concierge soon after he moved in. He befriended her and would play new compositions he was working on to get her opinion. Among the first of these compositions was the song called "I Concentrate on You".
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