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Jack Warner paid $300,000 for the rights to Cole Porter's best known songs, and viewed the film as a "big-budget extravaganza" that would celebrate Warner Brothers' twenty years in sound films. The scriptwriters knew that the film would need to be fictionalized, because he lacked the "rags to riches" quality common to subjects of biographical ...
The film used only four of Porter's songs and substituted other songs. [2] The cast featured Red Skelton as Red, Ann Sothern as Hattie Maloney, Rags Ragland as Rags, Ben Blue as Rowdy, Marsha Hunt as Leila Tree, Virginia O'Brien as Flo Foster, Alan Mowbray as Jay Jerkins, Dan Dailey as Dick Bulliard and Lena Horne as Singer in Phil's Place. [2]
This film has been produced without the songs of Cole Porter and the prismatic work is at times poorly lighted. The players, including Olsen and Johnson, William Gaxton, Helen Broderick, John Halliday, Claudia Dell, go about their work with marked enthusiasm, but they are unfortunate in the vehicle."
The first of Porter's "list songs", it features a string of suggestive and droll comparisons and examples, preposterous pairings and double entendres, dropping famous names and events, drawing from highbrow and popular culture. Porter was a strong admirer of the Savoy operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, many of whose stage works featured similar ...
It is based on the 1934 stage musical Anything Goes by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse, which included songs by Cole Porter. When Paramount sold the film's television rights, it retitled the film Tops Is the Limit because the 1956 film version , also produced by Paramount, was currently running in theaters.
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's movie career spans over 20 years and is filled with both hits and misses. ... complete with new songs to groove to. Johnson once again is perfect in the demigod role ...
High Society is a musical comedy with a book by Arthur Kopit and music and lyrics by Cole Porter.Some updated or new lyrics were provided by Susan Birkenhead.The musical is based on Philip Barry's 1939 stage comedy The Philadelphia Story and the subsequent 1956 musical film adaptation, High Society, which features Porter's songs.
A partially complete list of songs by Cole Porter. [1] Songs written at Yale University: “Antoinette Birby” “Bingo Eli Yale” “Bull Dog” Cora (1911 college musical) And the Villain Still Pursued Her (1912 college musical) "We are the Chorus of the Show" "Strolling" "The Lovely Heroine" "I'm the Villain" "Twilight" "Llewellyn" "That ...