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Cole Porter
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Composer (Music Score), Featured Music, From Musical by, Songwriter Born: June 9, 1891 in Peru, IN Death: October 15, 1964 in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, CA Biography:For fairly obvious technological reasons, the film credits of celebrated Broadway composer "Cole Porter" begin with the 1929 all-talkie "The Battle of Paris". "Fifty Million Frenchman", filmed in 1931, started out as a reasonable faithful adaptation of Porter's Broadway hit. By this point in time, however, the filmgoing public was tired of musicals, thus Warner Bros. blithely chopped out all the tunes: we repeatedly hear the build-up to You Do Something to Me, but never the song itself! (Porter's "leftover" score was later presented intact in the 1934 "Bob Hope" 2-reeler Paree, Paree). Any other composer might have been crushed by this cavalier treatment, but Porter had never been defeated by any of life's disappointments -- probably because he was cushioned by his vast inherited wealth and a lavish, globetrotting social life. Educated at Yale, Harvard, and the Paris Schola Cantorum, Porter was by 1931... Full Biography
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