Cole Porter

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American composer Broadway composer composer human lyricist songwriter

Cole Porter was an influential American composer and songwriter renowned for his sophisticated, witty contributions to Broadway and Hollywood musicals in the early to mid-20th century.

Aliases (1)

Cole Albert Porter ×1

Statements (70)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American composer → Broadway composer → composer → human → lyricist → songwriter →
activePeriod	1920s → 1930s → 1940s → 1950s →
awardReceived	Tony Award for Best Musical →
burialPlace	Mount Hope Cemetery, Peru, Indiana, United States →
causeOfDeath	kidney failure →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1891-06-09 →
dateOfDeath	1964-10-15 →
educatedAt	Harvard College → Harvard Law School → Yale University →
familyName	Porter →
fieldOfWork	film music → musical theatre →
fullName	Cole Albert Porter →
gender	male →
genre	jazz standard → musical theatre → popular music →
givenName	Cole →
influenced	American popular song →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
movement	Great American Songbook →
notableAchievement	wrote music and lyrics for Kiss Me, Kate, the first musical to win the Tony Award for Best Musical →
notableSong	Anything Goes → Begin the Beguine → Every Time We Say Goodbye → I Get a Kick Out of You → In the Still of the Night → It’s De-Lovely → I’ve Got You Under My Skin → Just One of Those Things → Let’s Do It, Let’s Fall in Love → My Heart Belongs to Daddy → Night and Day → So in Love → Too Darn Hot → You’re the Top →
notableWork	Anything Goes → Can-Can → DuBarry Was a Lady → Fifty Million Frenchmen → Gay Divorce → High Society → Jubilee → Kiss Me, Kate → Leave It to Me! → Nymph Errant → Out of This World → Panama Hattie → Paris → Red, Hot and Blue → Silk Stockings →
occupation	composer → lyricist → songwriter →
placeOfBirth	Peru, Indiana, United States →
placeOfDeath	Santa Monica, California, United States →
sexualOrientation	homosexual →
spouse	Linda Lee Thomas →
style	sophisticated melodies → witty lyrics →

Referenced by (33)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
"You’re Sensational" → High Society → Jubilee → Silk Stockings → True Love → Well, Did You Evah! → Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? →	composer
"You’re Sensational" → Broadway Melody of 1940 → High Society → Jubilee → The Gay Divorcee → True Love → Well, Did You Evah! →	musicBy
"You’re Sensational" → Jubilee → Silk Stockings → True Love → Well, Did You Evah! → Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? →	lyricist
"You’re Sensational" → True Love → Well, Did You Evah! →	lyricsBy
"You’re Sensational" → True Love →	writer
The Gay Divorcee →	basedOnWorkAuthor
Robert Russell Bennett →	collaboratedWith
Cole Porter ("Cole Albert Porter") →	fullName
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? →	musicByInFilm
Silk Stockings →	stageMusicalMusicBy
Fred Astaire →	workedWith
Liz Imbrie →	workMusicBy
Jubilee →	writtenBy