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The Broadway genius of the New Deal was Cole Porter, educated at Yale and
Harvard, the first New York songwriter who was not afraid to talk about
sex, as he proved in Paris (1928) with Let's Do It,
Fifty Million Frenchmen (1929), with You've Got That Thing
and You Do Something to Me
and The Gay Divorcee (1932), with Night and Day.
His talent was displayed in songs such as An Old Fashioned Garden (1919),
I'm In Love Again (1924),
What Is This Thing Called Love? (1929) and
Love for Sale (1930), that appeared in other Broadway or Hollywood
productions.
His melodic art reached its zenith with Anything Goes (1934), that
boasted I Get A Kick Out Of You, You're The Top,
All Through the Night, Anything Goes, Blow Gabriel Blow.
It was followed by
Jubilee (1935), with Begin the Beguine,
Red Hot and Blue (1936), with Down in the Depths on the 90th Floor and Delovely,
Leave It To Me (1938),
DuBarry Was A Lady (1939), with Did You Ever, Friendship and But In The Morning No,
Panama Hattie (1940), with Let's Be Buddies,
Let's Face It (1941), with You Irritate Me So,
Something For the Boys (1943), with Hey Good Lookin',
Mexican Hayride (1944), with Count Your Blessings,
and assorted songs such as I've Got You Under My Skin (1936),
In The Still of the Night (1937),
My Heart Belongs to Daddy (1938),
I Love You (1944), Don't Fence Me In (1944),
Every Time We Say Goodbye (1944),
From This Moment On (1950).
His greatest triumph came with the "backstage" musical Kiss Me Kate (1948), based on William Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, that included Always True to You in my Fashion, Wunderbar, So In Love With You Am I, Brush Up Your Shakespeare.
The quality of his music remained consistently high throughout
Can-Can (1953), with
I Love Paris, It's All Right With Me and C'est Magnifique,
Silk Stockings (1955), a musical adaptation of Ernst Lubitsch's film Ninotchka.
The jazzy soundtrack for Charles Walters' film High Society (1956),
an adaptation of Philip Barry's play The Philadelphia Story (1939)
featuring Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby,
contained True Love, High Society Calypso,
You're Sensational, Now You Has Jazz, Well Did You Evah.
The less ambitious soundtrack for George Cukor's film
Les Girls (1957) contains Ca C'est l'Amour.
His career ended when his legs had to be amputated.
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(Translation by/ Tradotto da Matteo Nicoli)
Cole Porter fu il genio di Broadway nel periodo del New Deal; studiò ad Harvard e Yale, e fu il primo songwriter di New York a non temere di parlare di sesso, come dimostrano
Paris (1928) con
Let's Do It,
Fifty Million Frenchmen (1929), con
You've Got That Thing e
You Do Something to Me, e
The Gay Divorcee (1932), con
Night and Day. Il suo talento è visibile in canzoni quali
An Old Fashioned Garden (1919),
I'm In Love Again (1924),
What Is This Thing Called Love? (1929) e
Love for sale (1930), che apparivano in altre produzioni di Hollywood o Broadway. La sua arte melodica raggiunse il culmine con
Anything Goes (1934), che vantava
I Get A Kick Out Of You,
You're The Top,
All Through the Night,
Anything Goes e
Blow Gabriel Blow. Fu seguito da
Jubilee (1935), con
Begin the Beguine,
Red Hot and Blue (1936), con
Down in the Dephts on the 90th Floor e
Delovely,
Leave It To Me (1938),
DuBarry Was A Lady (1939), con
Did You Ever,
Friendship e
But In The Morning No,
Panama Hattie (1940), con
Let's Be Buddies,
Let's Face It (1941), con
You Irritate Me So,
Something For the Boys (1943), con
Hey Good Lookin',
Mexican Hayride (1944), con
Count Your Blessings, e alre canzoni assortite, come
I've Got You Under My Skin (1936),
In The Still of the Night (1937),
My Heart Belongs to Daddy (1938),
I Love You (1944),
Don't Fence Me In (1944),
Every Time We Say Goodbye (1944),
From This Moment On (1950). Il suo più grande successo arrivò con il musical "backstage"
Kiss Me Tate (1948), basato su La bisbetica domata di William Shakespeare, che includeva
Always True to You in my Fashion,
Wunderbar,
So In Love With You Am I e
Brush Up Your Shakespeare. La qualità della sua musica rimase regolarmente alta in
Can-Can (1953), con
I Love Paris,
It's All Right With Me e
C'est Magnifique,
Silk Stockings (1955), un'adattamento musicale del film Ninotchka di Ernst Lubitsch. La colonna sonora jazz per il film di Charles Waters High Society (1956), un adattamento della commedia The Philadelphia Story (1939), in collaborazione con Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra e Bing Crosby, contiene
True Love,
High Society Calypso,
You're Sensational,
Now You Has Jazz e
Well Did You Evah. La colonna sonora per il film di Geroge Cukor Les Girls (1957) è meno ambiziosa, contine
Ca C'est l'Amour. La sua carriera finì quando gli furono amputate le gambe.
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