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Biography

Name: Cole Albert Porter
Birth Date: June 9, 1891
Death Date: October 15, 1964
Place of Birth: Peru, Indiana, United States
Place of Death: Santa Monica, California, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: composer

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Biography of Cole Albert Porter
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American composer Cole Albert Porter (1891-1964) wrote songs (both words and music) for over 30 stage and film musicals. His best work set standards of sophistication and wit seldom matched in the popular musical theater. Cole Porter was born in Peru,...
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Biography of Cole Porter
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Even though, with the exception of Kiss Me, Kate (1948) and Anything Goes (1934), few of Cole Porter's shows are now revived, the best of his songs live on. The Porter style--the impudence, the wit, that sense of being allowed a peek into a privileged...


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Cole Albert Porter ( 9 June 1891 – 15 October 1964 ) was an American composer and songwriter noted for his sophisticated (sometimes ribald) lyrics, clever rhymes, and complex forms. Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 Paris (1928) 1.2 Anything Goes (1934) 1.3...


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Porter, Cole (1891-1964) Summary
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Cole Porter was one of the most important creators of musicals from the 1920s to the 1950s. He was one of those rare Broadway composers who wrote both lyrics and music. His impressive list of twenty-three Broadway shows included Anything Goes (1934),...
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Cole Porter Information
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Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter from Peru, Indiana. His works include the musical comedies Kiss Me, Kate (1948) (based on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew), Fifty Million Frenchmen...


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Publishers Weekly
COLE PORTER: A Biography. (book reviews)
08/10/1998: 317 words, approx. 1 pages
William McBrien. Knopf, $30 (480p) ISBN 0-394-58235-7 The wit, sophistication and often-surprising depth of feeling in the music and lyrics of Cole Porter are at last fully realized in this latest of the songwriter's many biographies. Making illuminating use of previously unpublished...
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American Scholar
COLE PORTER: A BIOGRAPHY.(Review)
03/22/1999: 1,644 words, approx. 6 pages
COLE PORTER: A BIOGRAPHY By William McBrien. Knopf. $30. Movie magazines of the 1930s carried backpage advertisements offering a fifteen-dollar correspondence course on writing "hit popular songs." The financial returns that the ad implied one could pull down were clearly substantial enough...
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AP News
British musical star Pat Kirkwood dies
12/27/2007: 309 words, approx. 1 pages
Actress Pat Kirkwood, once a star of British musical theater, has died, a close family friend said Wednesday. She was 86.Kirkwood's career of more than 60 years included leading roles in musicals written by Noel Coward and Cole Porter. But Kirkwood was dogged her whole...
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The New York Observer
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3/27/2005: 1,250 words, approx. 4 pages
What has happened to the great American auto industry? Are General Motors, Ford and Chrysler headed for oblivion? And, more immediately, is there any way for General Motors to stop its dizzying free fall? Last week, the world's largest automaker announced that it expects to...
 


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