by Cole Porter
8. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1951 (TLS on Waldorf stationery), 1–12.
9. Ibid. Letter of 5 February 1951 from Linda Porter to Sam Stark.
10. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1951 (TLS on Waldorf stationery), 1–12.
11. CPT, Correspondence 1951 (on Waldorf stationery).
12. CPT, Correspondence 1951.
13. Ibid (copy).
14. Sent from 416 N. Rockingham. CPT, Correspondence 1951.
15. Ibid.
16. These letters apparently do not survive.
17. Letter of 13 March 1951 from Allen Keith to Cole Porter, offering via Ben Schankman a synopsis of Love or Money if interested. CPT, Correspondence 1951.
18. Sent from 416 N. Rockingham. CPT, Correspondence 1951.
19. Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, Cole Porter Collection MSS 82, Box 49, folder 301. Handwritten on stationery of Westleigh Farm, Peru, Indiana.
20. Letter of 31 March 1951 from Linda Porter to Sam Stark. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1951 (TLS on Waldorf stationery), 1–12.
21. Sent from 416 N. Rockingham. CPT, Correspondence 1951.
22. The ASCAP papers can be viewed at NYPL. See http://archives.nypl.org/mus/22936 (accessed 11 September 2018).
23. Letter of 18 April 1951 from Maurice C. Brockway to Cole Porter. CPT, Correspondence 1951, photocopy.
24. Sent from 416 N. Rockingham. CPT, Correspondence 1951.
25. TLS, from 416 N. Rockingham. https://www.ebay.com/itm/COLE-PORTER-TYPED-LETTER-SIGNED-05-02-1951/302016979237?hash=item46519d6125:g:3BkAAOSwMsVXjBBH; accessed 31 October 2017.
26. Columbia University, Spewack Collection, Catalogued Correspondence: Cole Porter.
27. Ibid.
28. Ibid.
29. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1951 (TLS on Waldorf stationery), 1–10 (handwritten on Buxton Hill paper).
30. Ibid, 1–12.
31. Letter of 11 June 1951 from Paul Sylvain to Sam Stark. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1951 (TLS on Waldorf stationery), 1–12 (handwritten on Buxton Hill paper).
32. Ibid.
33. Columbia University, Spewack Collection, Catalogued Correspondence: Cole Porter.
34. Letter of 10 July 1951 from Stan Stanley, Chappell & Co. to Cole Porter. CPT, Correspondence 1951.
35. Columbia University, Spewack Collection, Catalogued Correspondence: Cole Porter.
36. Sent from 415 in L.A. to Stark in Mexico. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1951 (TLS on Waldorf stationery), 1–12.
37. Ibid.
38. CPT, Correspondence 1951.
39. Columbia University, Spewack Collection, Catalogued Correspondence: Cole Porter.
40. Sent from 416 N. Rockingham to Mexico. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1951 (TLS on Waldorf stationery), 1–12.
41. Sent from 416 N. Rockingham; CPT, Correspondence 1951.
42. Handwritten, CPT, Correspondence 1951.
43. Letter written from California; CPT, Correspondence 1951.
44. Sent from 416 N. Rockingham; CPT, Correspondence 1951.
45. Ibid.
46. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1951 (handwritten on Buxton Hill stationery), 1–12.
47. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1951 (handwritten on ‘No Trespassing’ stationery), 1–12.
48. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1951, 1–12.
49. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1951 (handwritten on Waldorf stationery), 1–12.
50. Ibid.
51. Ibid.
52. Ibid.
53. Ibid.
54. Columbia University, Spewack Collection, Catalogued Correspondence: Cole Porter.
55. Sam Zolotow, ‘F. Hugh Herbert, Porter Doing Show’, New York Times, 17 November 1951, 22.
56. Letter of 7 January 1952 from Paul Sylvain to Sam Stark. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1952 (handwritten on Waldorf stationery), 1–13.
57. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1952 (handwritten on ‘No Trespassing’ stationery), 1–13.
58. CPT, Correspondence 1952.
59. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1952 (handwritten on ‘No Trespassing’ stationery), 1–13.
60. Typed letter on Waldorf stationery: https://www.ebay.com/itm/PORTER-COLE-Typed-Letter-Signed-to-musical-director-George-Hirst-Lot-187/202076470638?hash=item2f0cb23d6e:g:HxIAAOSwyjJZ2nwj; accessed 31 October 2017.
61. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1952 (handwritten on ‘No Trespassing’ stationery), 1–13.
62. CPT, Correspondence 1952 (copy).
63. CPT, Correspondence 1952.
64. Original not found. Quoted in McBrien, Cole Porter, 333.
65. Sam Zolotow, ‘Burr and Pearson Split On “Willows”’, New York Times, 17 March 1952, 16.
66. Sam Zolotow, ‘Delay in Staging “The Baker’s Wife”’, New York Times, 9 April 1952, 26.
67. CPT, Correspondence 1952.
68. Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, Cole Porter Collection MSS 82, Box 49, folder 299.
69. CPT, Correspondence 1952 (copy).
70. Margaret Herrick Library, George Cukor Collection, Box 854.
71. CPT, Burrows file.
72. Ibid.
73. Ibid.
74. Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, Cole Porter Collection MSS 82, Box 49, folder 301. Typewritten letter; carbon copy.
75. CPT, Burrows file.
76. Ibid.
77. NYPL, Abe Burrows Papers, *T-Mss 2000-006, Box 13, folder 19.
78. CPT, Can-Can binder.
79. NYPL, Abe Burrows Papers, *T-Mss 2000-006, Box 8, folder 3.
80. CPT, Correspondence 1952.
81. Ibid.
82. Letter of 14 July 1952 from Abe Burrows to Cy Feuer. CPT, Burrows file.
83. CPT, Correspondence 1952.
84. Ibid.
85. Ibid.
86. Ibid.
87. Anon., ‘Metro to Do Film of “Kiss Me, Kate”’, New York Times, 9 July 1952, 23.
88. CPT, Correspondence 1952.
89. Ibid.
90. Ibid. Handwritten letter.
91. Letter from Paul Sylvain to Sam Stark, dated 31 July 1952. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1952 (handwritten on Westleigh Farm, Peru, Indiana notepaper), 1–13.
92. George Eells Collection, Porter research, folder 5, USC.
93. CPT, Correspondence 1952; scan.
94. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1952, 1–14.
95. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1952 (handwritten on ‘COLE PORTER’ stationery), 1–13.
96. Letter of 3 September 1952 from Alfred A. Knopf to Bella Spewack. CPT, Correspondence 1952. Letter of 17 November 1952: agreement between Porter, the Spewacks and Knopf. Columbia University, Ms Coll Spewack. See also letter of 30 October 1952 from John Wharton to Cole Porter (CPT, Correspondence 1952), informing Porter that contracts have been submitted to Knopf.
97. TLS on Waldorf stationery to Peru, Indiana. Seen online at http://www.historyforsale.com/html/prodetails.asp?documentid=278887&start=16&page=104, accessed 19 May 2016. In response, Harvey Cole wrote on 17 September 1952: ‘I have your letter of September 13, 1952 including Bill Miller’s flower bill which I have sent to Joe Huber for payment along with other funeral expenses’: http://www.historyforsale.com/html/prode
tails.asp?documentid=278887&start=16&page=104, accessed 19 May 2016.
98. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1952 (handwritten on Waldorf stationery), 1–13.
99. Daniel Lang, ‘A Reporter at Large: Something in the Sky’, New Yorker, 6 September 1952, 62–82.
100. From Under My Hat (Boston and New York, 1952), Hopper’s memoir.
101. Tallulah: My Autobiography (New York, 1952).
102. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1952 (handwritten on Waldorf stationery), 1–13.
103. CPT, Correspondence 1952; scan.
104. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1952 (handwritten on Waldorf stationery), 1–13.
9 TWO LAST BROADWAY HITS, CAN-CAN AND SILK STOCKINGS, 1953–1954
1. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1953.
2. CPT, Correspondence 1953 (handwritten; year not included).
3. Letter of 16 January 1953 from Feuer to Porter and Burrows. NYPL, Abe Burrows Papers, *T-Mss 2000-006, Box 8, folder 5.
4. Fred Lounsberry to Cole Porter, 28 January 1953. CPT, Correspondence 1953.
5. CPT, correspondence 1953.
6. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1953 (on Waldorf stationery), 1–14.
7. Ditto.
8. CPT, Correspondence 1953.
9. Letter of 12 February 1953 from Jack Cummings (MGM) to John Wharton, sending the first forty-eight pages of a temporary screenplay for Kiss Me, Kate (CPT, Correspondence 1953). Letter of 9 March 1953 from Steven R. Carlin (RCA) to Cole Porter (CPT, Correspondence 1953). Of note, Porter is not shown as having a physical disability in the film.
10. Sam Zolotow, ‘Porter Agrees to Do Another Musical for Feuer and Martin’, New York Times, 1 March 1953, X1.
11. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1953, 1–14.
12. Jean Howard Papers, AHC, Box 6.
13. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1953 (on Waldorf stationery), 1–14.
14. CPT, Correspondence 1953.
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid.
17. 5 May 1953: Thomas Robinson (MGM) to Robert Montgomery (CPT, Correspondence 1953): letters of agreement for $7,500 (for ‘From This Moment On’) and release of prior agreement of 12 September 1952 for three additional songs, and licence with Buxton Hill Music for use of ‘From This Moment On’ in KMK film.
18. CPT, Correspondence 1953.
19. Ibid. Maxwell is not named in the source but it is obvious that she is the recipient.
20. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1953 (on Waldorf stationery), 1–14.
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid.
23. Seymour Peck, ‘Can-Can from Old Montmartre’, New York Times, 3 May 1953, X1.
24. Jean Howard Papers, AHC, Box 6.
25. Brooks Atkinson, ‘First Night at the Theatre’, New York Times, 8 May 1953, 28.
26. CPT, Correspondence 1953.
27. Handwritten letter of 17 May 1953 from Goddard Lieberson to Cole Porter; Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, Cole Porter Collection MSS 82, Box 49, folder 303.
28. Reproduced in You’re Sensational: Cole Porter in the ’20s, ’40s and ’50s (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1999), 68.
29. Written on stationery of the Hotel Windsor Etoile, Paris. Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, Cole Porter Collection MSS 82, Box 49, folder 302.
30. Ibid.
31. CPT, Correspondence 1955 [sic].
32. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1953 (on Waldorf stationery), 1–14.
33. Ibid.
34. CPT, Correspondence 1953.
35. Ibid. Written from California.
36. ebay: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/331622594951 (accessed 2017).
37. CPT, Correspondence 1953.
38. Letter of 16 July 1953 from John Wharton to Mr L. C. Hanna. CPT, Correspondence 1953.
39. CPT, Correspondence 1953.
40. Noël Coward Foundation.
41. Anon, ‘$551,550 Left to Cole Porter’, New York Times, 28 June 1953, 32.
42. CPT, Correspondence 1953.
43. Ibid.
44. Ibid.
45. Lewis Funke, ‘News and Gossip of the Rialto’, New York Times, 26 July 1953, X1.
46. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/391990441648?ul_noapp=true (accessed 2 March 2018).
47. https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/24254/lot/1088 (accessed 8 August 2018).
48. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1953 (on Waldorf stationery), 1–14.
49. CPT, Correspondence 1953.
50. Ibid.
51. Ibid.
52. Letter of 2 September 1953 from Robert Montgomery to B.A.T. Productions Ltd., London. CPT, Correspondence 1953.
53. CPT, Correspondence 1953.
54. Ibid.
55. http://universityarchives.com/Cole_Porter-ITEM63505.aspx (accessed 8 August 2018).
56. http://universityarchives.com/Cole_Porter-ITEM63506.aspx (accessed 8 August 2018).
57. Three letters of 18 September 1953 from Irving Lazar to John F. Wharton. CPT, Correspondence 1953.
58. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1953 (on Waldorf stationery), 1–14.
59. Bosley Crowther, ‘The Screen in Review’, New York Times, 6 November 1953, 23.
60. Letter of 18 November 1953 from Sam Spewack to Porter. CPT, Correspondence 1953.
61. CPT, Correspondence 1953.
62. Letter of 24 November 1953 from Sam and Bella Spewack to Cole Porter. CPT, Correspondence 1953.
63. Letter of 2 October 1953 from Irving Lazar to John F. Wharton. CPT, Correspondence 1953.
64. Letter of 1 December 1953 from Irving Lazar to Robert Montgomery. CPT, Correspondence 1953.
65. 8 December 1953: Deal with MGM (Arthur Freed Unit) for the Porter Cavalcade. CPT, Correspondence 1953.
66. Thomas M. Pryor, ‘Porter’s Music in Metro Plans’, New York Times, 28 December 1953, 28. Gene Kelly (1912–96), actor, singer and movie star.
67. Thomas M. Pryor, ‘Charlton Heston to Portray Moses’, New York Times, 16 February 1954, 29. The actress Vera-Ellen (1921–81) is best remembered for her appearance in the movie White Christmas (1954).
68. Jean Howard Papers, AHC, Box 6. Annotated at top: ‘I was ill in Switzerland.’
69. CPT, Correspondence 1953.
70. On Waldorf stationery. Many thanks to Paul Schwartz for sharing this letter.
71. More information is given here: https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences-and-law/economics-business-and-labor/businesses-and-occupations/broadcast-music-inc (accessed 11 September 2018).
72. CPT, Burrows file.
73. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1953 (on Waldorf stationery), 1–14.
74. Jean Howard Papers, AHC, Box 6.
75. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1954 (on Waldorf stationery), 1–15.
76. Cole Porter Collection, Library of Congress.
77. Letter of 17 February 1954, Jule Styne to Cole Porter. CPT, Correspondence 1954.
78. Letter of 19 February 1954, Cole Porter to Pete Barnum, NBC. CPT, Correspondence 1954.
79. Jack Gould, ‘Television in Review: Song Magic’, New York Times, 3 March 1954, 35.
80. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1954 (on Waldorf stationery), 1–15.
81. Handwritten on stationery of the Palace Hotel, St Moritz. NYU, Fales Library, Erich Maria Remarque Papers, Series 12, Subseries A, Box 2, folder 9. Headed: ‘Monday night, Mar 15 ’54’.
82. Stanford University, Cole Po
rter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1954 (on Waldorf stationery), 1–15.
83. Jerome Robbins Papers, NYPL.
84. See Deborah Jowitt, Jerome Robbins: His Life, His Theater, His Dance (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2004), 250.
85. Noël Coward Foundation.
86. CPT, Correspondence 1954.
87. Thomas M. Pryor, ‘Warners to Team Sinatra and Day’, New York Times, 8 May 1954, 15. It’s Always Fair Weather was released on 1 September 1955, starring Gene Kelly.
88. Jean Howard Papers, AHC, Box 6.
89. CPT, Burrows file.
90. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1954 (on Waldorf stationery), 1–15.
91. Ibid.
92. Jean Howard Papers, AHC, Box 6.
93. Margaret Herrick Library, Hedda Hopper Collection, Box 2648.
94. Ibid.
95. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1954 (on Waldorf stationery), 1–15.
96. Ibid.
97. CPT, Correspondence 1954.
98. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1954 (on Waldorf stationery), 1–15.
99. Written from 416 N. Rockingham, California. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1954 (on Waldorf stationery), 1–15.
100. Sam Zolotow, ‘New Team Seeks Schulberg’s Play’, New York Times, 9 July 1954, 22.
101. Anon., ‘Metro Will Film Anderson Drama’, New York Times, 20 July 1954, 16.
102. CPT, Correspondence 1954.
103. Ibid.
104. Margaret Herrick Library, Jack Cummings Collection, Box 60, folder ‘Seven Brides for Seven Brothers Correspondence’.
105. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1954 (on Waldorf stationery), 1–15.
106. CPT, Burrows file.
107. Ibid.
108. Cole Porter Collection, Library of Congress.
109. Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, Cole Porter Collection MSS 82, Box 87 (on Waldorf stationery).
110. On Waldorf stationery. Swann Galleries, sale 2413, 5 May 2016, lot 248. http://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/asp/fullCatalogue.asp?salelot=2413+++++248+&refno=++712675&saletype=.
111. Jack Gould, ‘Television in Review’, New York Times, 12 November 1954, 29.
112. Quoted in the New York Times review of the book by Cleveland Amory, 24 October 1954, BR6.