And while it was true that Linda and Cole would marry, theirs was an unconventional relationship. Porter was homosexual, and some biographers think "In the Still of the Night" was written for one of his lovers.
Changing mores have set the stage for a more accurate cinematic rendering of Cole Porter's life. De-Lovely , starring Kevin Kline and Ashley Judd, released last month, is more musical than biopic, which is only as it should be for the story of a songwriter routinely listed with Irving Berlin, George Gershwin and Jerome Kern as among America's greatest composers. In Porter's lifetime—he died in at 73—he amassed more than original songs.
His works displayed astonishing diversity and depth, beginning with the quirky fight songs he wrote for the Yale football squad and maturing into the lyrics and music for such classic musicals as Kiss Me, Kate and Can-Can , as well as such enduring standards as "Anything Goes," "Begin the Beguine," "You're the Top" and "From This Moment On. The movie's producer, Irwin Winkler, is a lifelong devotee of Porter's music, and hit on the idea of casting Elvis Costello and Alanis Morissette in supporting roles as a way to introduce a younger generation to Porter's genius.
But Winkler, an Oscar-winning producer Rocky who also directed De- Lovely , wanted to tell a love story. Porter's marriage to Lee was rife with contradictions, and the film complicates matters by depicting events that are more speculation than verifiable fact.
For instance, the film posits that Lee miscarried a child fathered by Porter. But as unconventional as their relationship may have been, it proved to be Porter's lifeline.
The first love of Porter's life was his fashionable and well-educated mother, Kate, who fawned over her only child, born June 9, , and encouraged his passion for music. He wrote his first piece, called "Song of the Birds," when he was By contrast, her husband, Samuel Fenwick Porter, a taciturn pharmacist who died at age 69 in either of meningitis or from complications of a nervous breakdown, paid scant attention to his son.
At first, Cole was close to his grandfather, J. Cole, the family patriarch and a savvy entrepreneur who amassed a fortune with investments in waterworks, brewing, lumber, cold storage and other businesses.
Young Porter was sent to WorcesterAcademy, a preppy Massachusetts boarding school, breezed through Yale and promptly entered Harvard law school. But when Cole came home for Christmas break in , he announced that he was transferring to Harvard's school of music.
In years to come, the young Porter seemed to drift farther and farther away from his family. I think he was uncomfortable. He was more comfortable in the international society set than he was at home.
Porter moved to New York City in to take his chances on Broadway. His first musical, 's See America First , was a sendup of the kind of patriotic shows popularized by George M. One critic called it "the worst musical comedy in town. Don't leave America, Just stick around the U.
With a newly acquired aversion to New York theater critics, Porter set out for Europe in He would later claim to have seen action with the French Army in World War I, but that remains dubious.
Paula Laurence, who would be cast years later in Porter's Something for the Boys , said he was "a small man, very dapper, with a very round head like a doll and huge eyes which seemed to shut out the rest of the world when he looked at you, which was very flattering. Thomas, the combative heir to the New York Morning Telegram newspaper fortune.
To Linda, the well-mannered and witty Cole must have seemed the flip side of her macho ex-husband. At the Ritz that night, Cole and Mimi Scott, a friend of his, performed, and an enchanted Linda invited them to her home for dinner the next evening. Most accounts say that Porter and Scott were offended, thinking that Linda had mistaken them for hired help.
But given Porter's love of practical jokes, it's also easy to imagine that he was just having some fun when he and Scott arrived decked out as music-hall entertainers, she in a jet dress and large-brimmed hat, Porter with his hair slicked down, wearing a dreadful tailcoat with high collar. Whatever the intent, Linda was charmed.
Little is known about their courtship. Unattended by family, the couple married in Paris on December 18, , around the time Porter wrote "Alone with You. I want to go a flitting Here, there, everywhere. Dancing to bright lights, Stay out all night lights. I feel left on the shelf All alone with myself, When I might be all alone with you. What Porter saw in Linda was sophistication, security and someone to help him satisfy his voracious social appetite. She saw him as a ticket to a world equally remote to her.
She finally gave up that quest. She really loved him and stuck by him because he was her passport to a kind of enduring fame. Like Cole's mother, Linda believed deeply in Cole's music. She launched him into that set. It was not the fast lane, it was the chic, intercontinental, European set. That is how and when it all began. Overnight, his wealth matched his wife's. The couple became a fixture of the social circuit overseen by gossip columnist Elsa Maxwell, for whom almost any occasion was worthy of extravagant celebration.
Before long, the inseparable Linda and Cole became known as les Colporteurs. The world has gone mad today, And good's bad today, And black's white today, And day's night today, And that gent today You gave a cent today Once had several chateaux. When you hear that Lady Mendl standing up Now does a handspring landing up- On her toes, Anything goes.
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