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Kiss me, Kate
by Cole Porter
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218 editions published between 1900 and 2010 in 5 languages and held by 1,811 libraries worldwide Lilli Vannessi and Fred Graham, a battling, once-married couple, are reunited to star in a musical version of The taming of the shrew. On stage they fight it out and backstage they continue to clash. But backstage and downstage, viewers get to see lavish numbers and hear wonderful Cole Porter tunes.
Music and lyrics by Cole Porter; a treasury of Cole Porter
by Cole Porter
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278 editions published between 1928 and 2008 in 5 languages and held by 1,696 libraries worldwide Solomon Jazz Collection.
De-Lovely
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2 editions published in 2004 in English and held by 1,390 libraries worldwide A musical portrait of American composer Cole Porter. The film imagines Porter looking back on his life as a stage show, with past memories taking shape as numbers in an elaborate and elegant musical accompanied by his songs. His personal history is illustrated by these performances, especially the complicated relationship with his wife, wealthy socialite Linda Lee Porter, who is shown as being the main inspiration for his work despite his extramarital affairs.
Anything goes
by Cole Porter
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152 editions published between 1934 and 2011 in 4 languages and held by 1,366 libraries worldwide Television adaptations of Broadway musicals from the 50's.
Cole
by Cole Porter
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23 editions published between 1971 and 2000 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,265 libraries worldwide The essay (p.[ix]-xix) is followed by a chronological collection of illustrations, correspondence, anecdotes, etc., and Cole Porter's lyrics.
The complete lyrics of Cole Porter
by Cole Porter
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6 editions published between 1983 and 1992 in English and held by 1,190 libraries worldwide Contains the words to 800 of Cole Porter's songs -- more than 400 of them never before published.
High society
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7 editions published between 1956 and 2008 in English and held by 934 libraries worldwide In this sophisticated musical comedy, a society wedding is being arranged in Newport, Rhode Island. The beautiful Tracy Samantha Lord is to marry George Kittredge. However, Tracy's ex-husband, the songwriter C.K. Dexter-Haven, has never stopped loving her and has hopes of winning her back. A New York scandal sheet reporter and photographer arrive to cover the wedding and complicate the tangled romances.
Cole Porter's Can-can original Broadway cast recording
by Cole Porter
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139 editions published between 1953 and 2004 in 4 languages and held by 865 libraries worldwide Typescript, dated Feb. 8, 2004.
The Cole Porter story, as told to Richard G. Hubler
by Cole Porter
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6 editions published in 1965 in English and held by 617 libraries worldwide
De-lovely music from the motion picture
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5 editions published in 2004 in English and held by 607 libraries worldwide Lyrics and music by Cole Porter. Performed by various artists.
Silk stockings
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11 editions published between 1981 and 2006 in 3 languages and held by 589 libraries worldwide A stern lady communist comes to Paris to retrieve three wayward comrades and a Russian composer, but instead warms up to capitalist attractions.
The Cole Porter song book : the complete words and music of forty of Cole Porter's best-loved songs
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6 editions published between 1959 and 1998 in English and held by 571 libraries worldwide Words, piano music, and guitar chords for forty songs, with catalog of the composer's musical shows and films.
Love's labour's lost a romantic musical comedy
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1 edition published in 2000 in English and held by 566 libraries worldwide The handsome young King of Navarre and his three friends -- Berowne, Longaville, and Dumaine -- make a pledge to retreat for three years to study literature and art, depriving themselves of all comforts, including the company of women, for the duration. The pledge survives intact for exactly as long as it takes the beautiful Princess of France and her three friends -- Rosaline, Maria, and Katherine -- to travel to Navarre on a diplomatic mission from her father. Shakespeare purists will probably be horrified that Branagh has juxtaposed the Bard with classics by Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George and Ira Gershwin, in a loving homage to the great musicals of the '30s. He has also thrown in every cliché of said musicals, reviving the abandoned genre with 90 minutes of elaborately staged flossy, frothy, campy, cotton-candy fun.
Broadway melody of 1940
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8 editions published between 1940 and 2003 in English and held by 559 libraries worldwide A backstage yarn about two hoofers, Johnny Brett and King Shaw, who are an ambitious dance team working in a dance hall for little or nothing. A mistake in names shoots King instead of Johnny into the lead of a Broadway musical. On opening night King is unable to perform due to intoxication, and Johnny is forced to perform to save his partner's reputation. The show's producers realize their mistake in identity and all is resolved.
And then we wrote American composers and lyricists sing, play, and conduct their own songs
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2 editions published between 1977 and 2007 in English and held by 524 libraries worldwide
The best of Cole Porter
by Cole Porter
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35 editions published between 1959 and 2007 in 4 languages and held by 502 libraries worldwide
Ella Fitzgerald sings the Cole Porter songbook. Vol. 1
by Cole Porter
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13 editions published between 1956 and 1999 in English and Undetermined and held by 453 libraries worldwide
High society : vocal selections
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46 editions published between 1955 and 2006 in 4 languages and held by 446 libraries worldwide A sophisticated comedy with music. Preparations for the wedding of a headstrong society divorcee to a priggish self-made man are interrupted on the eve of the ceremony by the bride's easy going ex-husband and a debonair reporter from a gossip magazine. Setting: Newport, R.I.
Night and day
by Cole Porter
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114 editions published between 1932 and 2010 in 5 languages and held by 415 libraries worldwide
Bobby Short loves Cole Porter
by Cole Porter
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84 editions published between 1951 and 1997 in 3 languages and held by 342 libraries worldwide Solomon Jazz Collection. more
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Big band music Biographical films Biography Closeted gays Comedy films Compact discs Composers Courtship Coward, Noel,--1899-1973 Divorced women Drama Europe--Navarre (Kingdom) Feature films Feature films Fiction films Film adaptations France--Paris Great Britain Husband and wife Jazz Jazz vocals Jazz vocals Love stories Lyricists Man-woman relationships Motion picture music Motion picture music--Excerpts Motion picture music--Excerpts, Arranged Musical films Musical films Musicals Musicals--Excerpts Musicals--Excerpts, Arranged Musicals--Librettos Musicians New York (State)--New York Piano music (Jazz) Popular music Porter, Cole,--1891-1964 Remarriage Revues Romantic comedy films Single women Songs Songs, English Songs with piano Texts United States Video recordings--for the hearing impaired Young men
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Alternative Names
Porter, Koul.
Porter, Koul, 1891-1964
Porter, Koul fl.1951
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