When his first stage show fails, songwriter Cole Porter goes off to fight in WWI until, injured, he lands in a hospital. He impresses nurse Linda Lee with his creativity, but their budding romance must wait as Cole heads home. Back in New York, he mounts a series of popular shows, and when his work brings him back to Europe, he eventually marries Linda. But success doesn't spare him from marital complications or bad news about a beloved relative.
Score
Porter's actual songs, the one truthful thing here.
Costume
Orry-Kelly's gowns that deserve their own credit.
Director
Michael Curtiz
Cary Grant
Cole Porter
Alexis Smith
Linda Lee Porter
Monty Woolley
Monty Woolley
Ginny Simms
Carole Hill
Jane Wyman
Gracie Harris
Eve Arden
Gabrielle
Victor Francen
Anatole Giron
Alan Hale
Leon Dowling
Dorothy Malone
Nancy
Tom D'Andrea
Tommy
Selena Royle
Kate Porter
Donald Woods
Ward Blackburn
Henry Stephenson
Omar Cole
Paul Cavanagh
Bart McClelland
Sig Ruman
Wilowski
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Porter's actual legs were crushed in a 1937 riding accident; the film invents a WWI injury because heroism played better than horse mishaps.
The real Cole Porter was openly gay within Broadway circles; this film's invented heterosexual romance is a masterclass in 1940s compulsory heterosexuality.
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