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1. Cole Porter, Yale yearbook photograph (1913). 2. Westleigh Farms, Cole Porter’s childhood home in Indiana (2011). 3. Cole Porter’s World War I draft registration card (5 June 1917). War Department, Office of the Provost Marshal General. 4. Linda Porter, passport photograph (1919). 5. Cole Porter, Linda Porter, Bernard Berenson and Howard Sturges in Venice (c.1923). 6. Gerald Murphy, Ginny Carpenter, Cole Porter and Sara Murphy in Venice (1923). 7. Serge Diaghilev, Boris Kochno, Bronislava Nijinska, Ernest Ansermet and Igor Stravinsky in Monte Carlo (1923). Library of Congress, Music Division, Reproduction number: 200181841. 8. Letter from Cole Porter to Boris Kochno (September 1925). Courtesy of The Cole Porter Musical and Literary Property Trusts. 9. Scene from the original stage production of Fifty Million Frenchmen (1929). PHOTOFEST. 10. Irene Bordoni, star of Porter’s show Paris (1928). 11. Sheet music, ‘Love for Sale’ from The New Yorkers (1930). 12. Production designer Jo Mielziner showing a set for Jubilee (1935). PHOTOFEST. 13. Cole Porter composing as he reclines on a couch in the Ritz Hotel during out-of-town tryouts for Du Barry Was a Lady (1939). George Karger / Getty Images. 14. Cole and Linda Porter (c.1938). PHOTOFEST. 15. Ethel Merman in the New York production of Cole Porter’s Panama Hattie (1940). George Karger / Getty Images.
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16. Sheet music, ‘Let’s Be Buddies’ from Panama Hattie (1940). 17. Draft of ‘I Am Ashamed that Women Are So Simple’ from Kiss Me, Kate (1948), Library of Congress. Courtesy of The Cole Porter Musical and Literary Property Trusts. 18. Monty Woolley, publicity photo (1949). 19. Nelson Barclift rehearsing for Irving Berlin’s This is The Army at Camp Upton (1943). Bettmann / Getty Images. 20. Charlotte Greenwood in Cole Porter’s Out of This World (1950). PHOTOFEST. 21. Cole Porter and Ed Sullivan on Sullivan’s television show, Toast of the Town (1953). 22. Cole Porter in an advertisement for Bromo-Seltzer (c.1950). 23. Cole Porter in an advertisement for Rheingold Beer, Daily News, New York (18 May 1953). 24. Ann Miller, Cole Porter, producer Jack Cummings and Kathryn Grayson on the set of Kiss Me Kate (MGM, 1953). PHOTOFEST. 25. Cole Porter and Jean Howard (1954). 26. Scene from Silk Stockings (1955). PHOTOFEST. 27. Cole Porter, music director Andre Previn and producer Jack Cummings working on the film Kiss Me Kate (1953). PHOTOFEST. 28. Autograph lyric sheet for Can-Can (1953). Courtesy of The Cole Porter Musical and Literary Property Trusts. 29. Sheet music, ‘True Love’ from High Society (1956). 30. Louis Armstrong and Grace Kelly on the set of High Society (1956). 31. The last photograph of Cole Porter, New York (1964). PHOTOFEST.
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