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Cole Porter : a biography
- Author
- McBrien, William.
- Title
- Cole Porter : a biography / William McBrien.
- Format
- Book
- Edition
- 1st Vintage Books ed.
- Published
- New York : Vintage Books, [2000]
- Description
- xiii, 459 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
- Notes
- Originally published: New York : A.A. Knopf, 1998. Includes bibliographical references (p. 400-402) and index.
- Contents
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- We open in Peru
- I want to be a Yale boy
- Seeing America first
- I'm tired of living alone
- Raising hell in Europe
- Mesdames, messieurs...
- Take me back to Manhattan
- Anything went
- World-famous Tunesmith
- Like living on the moon
- Back in stride
- DuBarry
- I'm in love with a soldier boy
- Little houses in which our hearts once lived
- Night and day
- The champ is back
- Down in the depths
- Can-can
- The dream is over
- After you, who?
- He kept on living.
- Summary
- A glimpse into Porter's complex life examines his homosexual affairs, his twenty-plus-year marriage to Linda Lee Thomas, and his Broadway and Hollywood successes from "Anything Goes" to "Kiss Me, Kate."
- Subject headings
- Porter, Cole, 1891-1964. Composers--United States--Biography.
- ISBN
- 0679727922 9780679727927