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Johnny Mercer
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Paulette Goddard
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Erich Maria Remarque
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Elsa Maxwell
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Fred Astaire
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Anita Loos
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Howard Sturges
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Charles Feldman
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Jean Howard
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Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 I get no kick from champagne, Mere alcohol doesn`t thrill me at all, So tell me why should it be true, That I get a kick out of you? He may have hair upon his chest but, sister, so has Lassie.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.
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I love Paris in the summer, when it sizzles.
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Most gentlemen don`t like love, they just like to kick it around.
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In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking but now, God knows, anything goes.
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It`s delightful, it`s delicious, it`s de-lovely.
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My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.
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All the world loves a clown.
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Trivia
When he died he gave his 350 acre estate, known as Buxton Hill, to Williams College.
His estate continues to earn revenue in excess of $3 million per year, which is dispersed among numerous relatives.
Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.
He was considered somewhat "washed up" at the time that he wrote what would become his greatest musical "Kiss Me, Kate". Although many of the musicals that he wrote songs for between 1937 and 1948 achieved respectable runs, none of them contained any truly classic hit songs. That changed when he wrote the score for "Kiss Me, Kate", which contained "So In Love", "Wunderbar", "Too Darn Hot", "Brush Up Your Shakespeare", "Were Thine That Special Face", and others. However, because "Kate" was written in 1948, there is no mention of it at all in the Cole Porter biographical film "Night and Day".
Was portrayed by Cary Grant in Night and Day (1946) Kevin Kline in the movie, De-Lovely (2004), both based (to some degree) on his life.
Lived at the Waldorf-Astoria Tower in New York City from 1939 through 1964. A young hotel worker named Glory Santos was assigned to his suite as room service concierge soon after he moved in. He befriended her and would play new compositions he was working on to get her opinion. Among the first of these compositions was the song called "I Concentrate on You".
A member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, from his undergraduate days.
Class valedictorian of Worcester Academy in Worcester, Massachusetts - an elite prep school. Alums include 1960s icon Abbie Hoffman, "Durango Kid" cowboy actor Charles Starrett and screenwriter Caitlin McCarthy.
It is said that while on his honeymoon in Ravenna (Italy), he was so impressed by the mood of the small Mausoleum of Galla Placidia that he wrote his famous song "Night and Day" while thinking of the starry sky mosaic under Mausoleum`s cupola.
In 1949, won two Tony Awards for "Kiss Me, Kate": Best Composer and Lyricist, and for music and lyrics as part of the Best Musical Award.
Referenced in the song `The Call of the Wild (Merengue)` by David Byrne on his 1989 album, `Rei Momo`.
His musical, Kiss Me Kate, performed at the Victoria Palace Theatre in London, was awarded the 2001 London Critics Circle Theatre Award for Best Musical.
His musical Anything Goes, performed at the Royal National Theatre in London, England was awarded the 2002 London Critics Circle Award (Drama) for Best Musical.
His musical, Anything Goes performed at the Royal National Theatre: Olivier in 2002, was awarded the 2003 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Outstanding Musical Production.
His musical High Society, performed at the Open Air Theatre, was nominated for a 2004 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award as Outstanding Musical Production of 2003.
His musical Kiss Me Kate, performed at the Open Air Theatre, was nominated for a 1998 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award as Outstanding Musical Production of 1997.
Pictured on a 29¢ US commemorative postage stamp in the Performing Arts series, issued 22 May 1991, celebrating the 100th anniversary of his birth.
Older brother and sister (Louis and Rachel) died in infancy
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