by Cole Porter
113. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1954 (on Waldorf stationery), 1–17.
114. Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, Cole Porter Collection MSS 82, Box 87 (on Waldorf stationery).
115. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1954 (on Waldorf stationery), 1–15.
116. Ibid.
117. Cole Porter Collection, Library of Congress.
118. Louis Calta, ‘Irra Petina Stars in “Hit the Trail”’, New York Times, 2 December 1954, 40.
119. Cole Porter Collection, Library of Congress.
120. Noël Coward Foundation.
121. Gershwin Fund Collection, Library of Congress.
10 PORTER’S LAST MUSICALS, 1955–1957
1. Thomas M. Pryor, ‘Sinatra to Star in Musical Film’, New York Times, 17 December 1954, 36.
2. NYPL, Abe Burrows Papers, *T-Mss 2000-006, Box 9, folder 25.
3. Cole Porter Collection, Library of Congress, Box 25, folder 7.
4. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1955 (on Waldorf stationery), 1–16.
5. Cole Porter Collection, Library of Congress, Box 24, folder 2.
6. See McBrien, Cole Porter, 363.
7. Handwritten on stationery of Baur au Lac, Zurich. Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, Cole Porter Collection, MSS 82, Box 49, folder 30.
8. Quoted in Gilbert Millstein, ‘Words Anent Music by Cole Porter,” New York Times, 20 February 1955, SM16.
9. Howard, Travels with Cole Porter, 30.
10. Brooks Atkinson, ‘Satire on the Soviet’, New York Times, 25 February 1955, 17.
11. Handwritten letter of 2 March 1955 from Paul Sylvain to the Starks (Palace Hotel, St Moritz stationery). Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1955 (on Waldorf stationery), 1–16.
12. Letter of 3 March 1955 from Madeline P. Smith to Sam Stark. Ibid.
13. Letter from the Palace Hotel, St Moritz. Ibid.
14. Handwritten note from Stark to Porter. Ibid, 1–18.
15. CPT, Correspondence 1955.
16. Ibid.
17. Howard, Travels with Cole Porter, 32.
18. Ibid, 51.
19. Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, Cole Porter Collection, MSS 82, Box 49, folder 301.
20. Howard, Travels with Cole Porter, 31.
21. Ibid, 34.
22. Ibid, 36.
23. https://www.baumanrarebooks.com/rare-books/porter-cole/autograph-letter-signed/103877.aspx (accessed 17 April 2017).
24. Howard, Travels with Cole Porter, 36.
25. Ibid.
26. Ibid, 38.
27. Ibid.
28. Ibid.
29. On stationery of the Palace Hotel, Bussaco; Swann Galleries, sale 2367, 20 November 2014, lot 247.
30. Howard, Travels with Cole Porter, 40.
31. A facsimile of the letter appears in Grafton, Red, Hot & Rich!, between pp. 122 and 123.
32. Howard, Travels with Cole Porter, 50.
33. Ibid, 51.
34. Ibid.
35. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1955 (on Waldorf stationery), 1–18.
36. Handwritten note on stationery of Grand Hotel, Rome. https://www.ebay.com/itm/COLE-PORTER-AUTOGRAPH-LETTER-SIGNED-05-06-1955/302507487599?hash=item466ed9f16f:g:6bYAAOSwHUhZ94wN (accessed 31 October 2017).
37. Howard, Travels with Cole Porter, 55.
38. Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, Cole Porter Collection, MSS 82, Box 49, folder 301.
39. Yale University, Eells Papers.
40. Source for all Porter’s diaries from this trip: CPT, Correspondence 1955.
41. Ibid.
42. Letter of 25 July 1955 from A. Capparis to John F. Wharton, CPT, Correspondence 1955. Capparis comments: ‘These schools educate and train the future Deck and Engine Officers of the Greek Merchant Marine, which is actually the backbone of the Greek national economy.’
43. Howard, Travels with Cole Porter, 104.
44. Letter of 16 June 1955 from Bobbink and Atkins to John F. Wharton. CPT, Correspondence 1955.
45. CPT, Correspondence 1955.
46. Columbia University, Spewack Collection, Catalogued Correspondence: Cole Porter.
47. See Thomas Pryor, ‘Hollywood Scene’, New York Times, 28 August 1955, X5.
48. Howard, Travels with Cole Porter, 111.
49. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1955 (on Waldorf stationery), 1–16.
50. Margaret Herrick Library, Katharine Hepburn Collection, Box 166, ‘Correspondence 1954 – Summertime’.
51. Yale University, Eells Papers.
52. CPT, Correspondence 1955.
53. [no address] CPT, Correspondence 1955.
54. Ibid.
55. Jean Howard Papers, AHC, Box 6.
56. Anon, ‘Cole Porter Revival’, New York Times, 1 October 1955, 11.
57. A.G., ‘Musical in the Village’, New York Times, 10 November 1955, 44.
58. Thomas M. Pryor, ‘M-G-M Signs Trio for “High Society”’, New York Times, 28 November 1955, 27.
59. CPT, Correspondence 1955.
60. Ibid.
61. USC, MGM Music Department collection. Box PR-31A.
62. Letter of 9 December 1955 from Johnny Green to Cole Porter. USC, MGM Music Department collection. Box PR-31A.
63. CPT, Correspondence 1955.
64. Ibid.
65. Ibid.
66. Letter of 22 December 1955 from Johnny Green to Cole Porter. USC, MGM Music Department collection. Box PR-31A.
67. CPT, Correspondence 1955.
68. Saul Chaplin Papers, AHC, Box 4.
69. CPT, Correspondence 1955.
70. Saul Chaplin Papers, AHC, Box 4.
71. Ibid.
72. CPT, Correspondence 1956.
73. Ibid.
74. Saul Chaplin Papers, AHC, Box 4.
75. Letter of 28 January 1956 from Johnny Green to Cole Porter. USC, MGM Music Department collection. Box PR-31A.
76. Ibid.
77. Letter of 14 February 1956 from Johnny Green to Cole Porter. Ibid.
78. Letter of 15 February 1956 from Johnny Green to Cole Porter. Ibid.
79. Letter of 18 February 1956 from Cole Porter to Johnny Green. Ibid.
80. Ibid.
81. Thomas M. Pryor, ‘MGM Will Film “Silk Stockings”’, New York Times, 16 February 1956, 25.
82. CPT, Correspondence 1956.
83. Howard, Travels with Cole Porter, 171.
84. Ibid.
85. The diary entries for this trip are transcribed from the document titled ‘1956 TRIP’ at CPT in a folder marked ‘Cole Porter Diaries’. The entries are also reproduced in Jean Howard, Travels with Cole Porter, p. 114ff.
86. Yale University, Eells Papers (handwritten).
87. Quoted in Howard, Travels with Cole Porter, 136.
88. Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, Cole Porter Collection MSS 82.
89. Gershwin Fund Collection, Library of Congress (handwritten).
90. Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, Cole Porter Collection MSS 82, Box 49, folder 301 (handwritten).
91. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1956 (on Waldorf stationery), 1–17.
92. CPT, Correspondence 1956 (handwritten on small note-size paper).
93. McBrien specifically identifies the Richard in this letter as Porter’s masseur. See McBrien, Cole Porter, 363.
94. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1956 (on Waldorf stationery), 1–17.
95. Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, Cole Porter Collection MSS 82, Box 49, folder 301 (handwritten).
96. Howard, Travels, 208.
97. Howard papers, AHC, Box 6 (handwritten).
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98. Letter of 1 June 1956 from Madeline P. Smith to Sam Stark. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1956 (on Waldorf stationery), 1–17.
99. USC, MGM Music Department collection. Box PR-31A.
100. CPT, Correspondence 1956.
101. Quoted in Dominic McHugh, Alan Jay Lerner: A Lyricist’s Letters (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014).
102. Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, Cole Porter Collection MSS 82, Box 49, folder 301 (typewritten copy).
103. George Eells Collection, USC, folder 5.
104. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1956 (on Waldorf stationery), 1–17.
105. Bosley Crowther, ‘No “Philadelphia Story”’, New York Times, 10 August 1956, 9.
106. USC Cinematic Arts Library, Charles Walters Collection, ‘High Society’ (bound script), Box 2:3. Letter sent from N. Rockingham Avenue to Walters in Beverly Hills.
107. CPT, Correspondence 1956.
108. The Rodgers and Hart Songbook (ed. Albert Sirmay) (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1951).
109. CPT, Correspondence 1956.
110. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1956 (on Waldorf stationery), 1–17.
111. Much of the show can be viewed at https://archive.org/details/FordStarJubilee-ColePorter (accessed 11 July 2018).
112. Copy of a letter from Geoffrey Shurlock (censor) to Dore Schary (MGM) on 7 May 1956. Cole Porter Collection, Library of Congress.
113. Cole Porter Collection, Library of Congress (carbon copy).
114. George Eells Collection, USC, folder 5, Cole Porter research.
115. Ibid.
116. Liz Roberton.
117. Johnny Mercer Papers, Georgia State University.
118. Letter of 22 November 1956 from Madeline P. Smith to Bella Spewack (Spewack Papers, Columbia).
119. Cole Porter Collection, Library of Congress (carbon copy).
120. Ibid.
121. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1956 (on Waldorf stationery), 1–17.
122. Ibid.
123. Letter from Smith to the Starks. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1956 (on Waldorf stationery), 1–17.
124. Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, Cole Porter Collection MSS 82, Box 49, folder 301. Typewritten on ‘The Towers’ stationery. The letter is dated 1956 but the content clearly belongs to 1957.
125. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1957 (on Waldorf stationery), 1–17.
126. Ibid.
127. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Papers, Howard Gottlieb Archival Research Center, Boston University.
128. Quoted in Howard, Travels with Cole Porter, 210.
129. CPT, Correspondence 1957 (on Waldorf stationery).
130. Ibid.
131. CPT, Correspondence 1957 (on N. Rockingham stationery).
132. Ibid.
133. Bosley Crowther, ‘The Screen: “Silk Stockings” Arrives’, New York Times, 19 July 1957, 11.
134. Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, William McBrien Papers, Series IV, Box 4, folder 108 (typewritten, from 416 N. Rockingham).
135. CPT, Correspondence 1957 (on 416 N. Rockingham stationery).
136. [no address] CPT, Correspondence 1957.
137. R. C. Allen, Director, Kingwood Center, Mansfield, Ohio, ‘Rose Abundance: The New Arrivals Have An Age-Old Appeal’, New York Times, 27 January 1957, X43.
138. Howard Papers, AHC, Box 6.
139. Ibid.
140. Val Adams, ‘Cole Porter Signs for Musical on TV’, New York Times (5 August 1957), 32.
141. Porter Papers, Yale University, Box 49, folder 305.
142. Richard Lewine Papers, NYPL, *T-Mss 2006-008, Box 1.
143. Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, Cole Porter Collection MSS 82, Box 49, folder 305.
144. Richard Lewine Papers, NYPL, *T-Mss 2006-008, Box 1.
145. Ibid.
146. The Lilly Library, Indiana.
147. Richard Lewine Papers, NYPL, *T-Mss 2006-008, Box 1.
148. Ibid.
149. Leland Hayward Papers, NYPL, *T-Mss 1971-002, Series III, Subseries 1, Box 199.
150. CPT, Correspondence 1957 (on Waldorf stationery).
151. Bosley Crowther, ‘Screen: “Les Girls”’, New York Times, 4 October 1957, 27.
152. Source for both letters: Yale University, Lieberson Papers, Correspondence. Porter’s is on Waldorf stationery.
153. CPT, Correspondence 1957.
154. Ibid.
155. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1957 (on Waldorf stationery), 1–17.
11 THE FINAL YEARS, 1958–1964
1. Letter of 18 February 1958 from Paul Sylvain to Sam Stark (on stationery of Harkness Pavilion, Washington Avenue, New York). Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1958, 1–18.
2. Sam Zolotow, ‘“Stay Away Joe” to Be a Musical’, New York Times, 29 January 1958, 32.
3. Letter of 21 February 1958 from Madeline Smith to Bella Spewack (Spewack Papers, Columbia).
4. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1958 (on Waldorf stationery), 1–17.
5. Ibid.
6. Probably Cecil Smith’s review, headed ‘“Aladdin” Was a TV Miracle’, Los Angeles Times, 24 February 1958, 34.
7. Jack Gould, ‘TV Review: Aladdin is Offered on du Pont Show’, New York Times, 22 February 1958, 33.
8. Anon., ‘Cole Porter’s Leg Amputated’, New York Times, 4 April 1958, 17.
9. Leland Hayward Papers. NYPL, *T-Mss 1971-002, Series III, Subseries 1, Box 199.
10. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1958 (on Waldorf stationery), 1–17.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Leland Hayward Papers. NYPL, *T-Mss 1971-002, Series III, Subseries 1, Box 199.
14. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1958 (on Waldorf stationery), 1–17.
15. Ibid.
16. Eric Bentley (ed.), Shaw on Music (New York: Applause, 1955).
17. Sam Zolotow, ‘Cole Porter Gets Stage Assignment’, New York Times, 8 August 1958, 11.
18. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1958 (on Waldorf stationery), 1–17.
19. Ibid.
20. Ibid.
21. Letter of 3 November 1958: Madeline P. Smith to Sam Stark. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1958 (on Waldorf stationery), 1–17.
22. Columbia, Spewack Collection, Catalogued Correspondence: Cole Porter.
23. CPT, Correspondence 1959 (on Waldorf stationery).
24. See Eells, The Life that Late He Led, 312.
25. Letter of 19 February 1959 from Sylvain to Stark. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1959, 1–18.
26. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1959 (on Waldorf stationery), 1–17.
27. Ibid.
28. Letter of 3 April 1959 from Sam Stark to Cole Porter. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1959 (on Waldorf stationery), 1–17.
29. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1959 (on Waldorf stationery), 1–17.
30. Letter of 13 April 1959 from Madeline P. Smith to Sam Stark. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1959 (on Waldorf stationery), 1–17.
31. Gershwin Fund Collection, LC.
32. CPT, Correspondence 1959.
33. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1959 (on Waldorf stationery), 1–17.
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35. Letter from Stark to Porter, 28 May 1959. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1959 (on Waldorf stationery), 1–18.
36. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1959 (on Waldorf stationery), 1–17.
37. Eells outlines the situation in The Life that Late He Led, 313.
38. Letter of 10 June 1959 from Sam Stark to Cole Porter. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1959 (on Waldorf stationery), 1–17.
39. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1959 (on Waldorf stationery), 1–17.
40. Letter of 26 June 1959 from Madeline P. Smith to Sam and Harriette Stark. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1959 (on Waldorf stationery), 1–18.
41. Saul Chaplin Papers, AHC, Box 4.
42. George Eells Collection, Cole Porter research, folder 5, USC.
43. Jean Howard Papers, AHC, Box 6.
44. Columbia, Spewack Collection, Catalogued Correspondence: Cole Porter.
45. Arthur Gelb, ‘Two Irish Plays Will Be Staged’, New York Times, 15 August 1959, 9.
46. CPT, Correspondence 1959 (on N. Rockingham stationery).
47. Ibid.
48. Letter of 4 August 1959 from Madeline P. Smith to Sam Stark. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1959 (on Waldorf stationery), 1–20.
49. Jean Howard Papers, AHC, Box 6.
50. Letter of 18 October 1959 from Laura Sylvain to Sam Stark. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1959, 1–18.
51. Photocopy; Margaret Herrick Library, Jack Cummings Collection, Box 13.
52. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1959 (on Waldorf stationery), 1–20.
53. Ibid.
54. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1960 (on Waldorf stationery), 1–20.
55. Letter of 15 January 1960 from Smith to Stark. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1960 (on Waldorf stationery), 1–20.
56. Porter Collection, LC.
57. Ibid.
58. Ibid.
59. Stanford University, Cole Porter Collection, shelfmark FE209, Correspondence: 1960 (on Waldorf stationery), 1–20.
60. Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, Cole Porter Collection MSS 82, Box 87. On Waldorf stationery.
