A fictionalized biopic of composer Cole Porter from his days at Yale in the 1910s through the height of his success to the 1940s.
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Title: Night and Day (1946)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Cary Grant | ... | Cole Porter | |
| Alexis Smith | ... | Linda Lee Porter | |
| Monty Woolley | ... | Monty | |
| Ginny Simms | ... | Carole Hill | |
| Jane Wyman | ... | Gracie Harris | |
| Eve Arden | ... | Gabrielle | |
| Victor Francen | ... | Anatole Giron | |
| Alan Hale | ... | Leon Dowling | |
| Dorothy Malone | ... | Nancy | |
| Tom D'Andrea | ... | Tommy | |
| Selena Royle | ... | Kate Porter | |
| Donald Woods | ... | Ward Blackburn | |
| Henry Stephenson | ... | Omar Cole | |
| Paul Cavanagh | ... | Bart McClelland | |
| Sig Ruman | ... | Wilowski | |
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The fictionalized biography of composer Cole Porter from his days at Yale in the 1910s through the height of his success to the 1940s. The film's attempted biography matches many public myths surrounding Cole at the time, despite its lack of relationship with truth. For instance, truth and movie are different in regards to: his sex life (he was a gay man in a marriage of convenience with a divorcee friend), his relationship with his wife, Monty Wooley was a contemporary (not Professor), and his French military experience was a hoax. Written by <cole@doitall.com>
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3 August 1946 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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(1935) (uncredited)
Written by Cole Porter
Sung by Carlos Ramírez and chorus
Danced by George Zoritch and Milada Mladova
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After attending the premiere of the film, Cole Porter supposedly remarked to his wife, Linda, "if I could survive that, I can survive anything." See more »Goofs
The poster showing one of Cole Porter's musicals read "The Gay Divorcee." It should have read "The Gay Divorce." The movie was the former. See more »Quotes
Carole Hill: I'll be frank Mr. Porter, my rosebuds are at the height of their season.See more »
Soundtracks
Begin the Beguine(1935) (uncredited)
Written by Cole Porter
Sung by Carlos Ramírez and chorus
Danced by George Zoritch and Milada Mladova
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This is a beautiful, entertaining film with clever dialogue and a bit of drama. Though Cole Porter himself said that there was little reality in it, his professional career was featured here in a most winning fashion, with both negative and positive elements of it featured fairly. It is appropriate that the film concentrated upon the career rather than the seedier side of the protagonist's private life. It is all too common these days to have to suffer through presumptuous exposés of the most-private affairs of famous people who are no longer with us. At least this film was produced while its subject was alive. The Irwin Winkler "remake" or retelling, "Delovely", was nothing but an outrageous, shallow outing that concentrated on negativity, while subjecting us to the most boring, flaccid dialogue ever--ironic, I think, for a story about one of the most clever American lyricists of the twentieth century! The 2004 outing starring Kevin Kline also featured some hideous modern renditions of Cole Porter's music that did no justice to the genius of the composer. Movies can accentuate the positive while minimizing the negative and still have value. This is one of the most visually appealing films I have ever seen, but it has moments of disturbing realism as well as glamor. The rigors of life as a prolific artist, as well as the trials of an artist's spouse are portrayed with an adequate degree of grim reality. It does not so much ignore the homosexual activities of the subject as it does allude to them very delicately, and that is all that is required if one has good taste and an active imagination. I'll take an original over a remake any day, and this production, co-starring the hilarious Monty Woolley and the lovely Alexis Smith as Linda Lee Porter, is a good example of that preference.