The musicals of Cole Porter : Broadway, Hollywood, Television /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Dick, Bernard F. (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2025.
Subjects:	Porter, Cole, > 1891-1964 > Criticism and interpretation. Porter, Cole, > 1891-1964. > Songs. Musicals > United States > 20th century > History and criticism. Musical films > United States > 20th century > History and criticism. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction
Chapter 1: Following his fancy : See America first, Hitchi-Koo of 1919, Greenwich Village follies, and Paris
Chapter 2: The list song : Wake up and dream, Fifty million Frenchmen, and The New Yorkers
Chapter 3: Ca, c'est l'amour : the Cole Porter love song
Chapter 4: La vie est ga i: Gay divorce
Chapter 5: An errant nymph and an ex-evangelist : Nymph errant and Anything goes
Chapter 6: A Cole Porter primer : prosody and figurative language
Chapter 7: Strange bedfellows : Cole Porter and Moss Hart's Jubillee
Chapter 8: Triple threat : Ethel Merman, Jimmy Durante, and Bob Hope in Red, hot, and blue
Chapter 9: 1938, a year to remember : You never know and Leave it to me
Chapter 10: Porter's bawdy : Du Barry was a lady
Chapter 11: The war years : Panama Hattie, Let's face it!, Something for the boys, and Mexican hayride
Chapter 12: Strange interludes : Seven lively arts and Around the world
Chapter 13: Journey's end : Kiss me, Kate
Chapter 14: Regards to Broadway : Out of this world, Can-can, and Silk stockings
Chapter 15: Porter in Hollywood
Chapter 16: A less-than-grand finale : Aladdin
Epilogue
The musicals of Cole Porter (1891-1964)
Notes
Index.