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You're the top: the Cole Porter story

Title: You're the top: the Cole Porter story [videorecording] / Executive producer, Susan Lacy ; producer, Kirk D'Amico ; line producer, Vera Aronow ; co-producer, Elizabeth Cotnoir ; written and directed by Allan Albert ; a co-production of VPI-Videfilm Producers International, WNET, and Channel Four.
Publication: Los Angeles, Calif.: Island Visual Arts, c1990.

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Moving image	Restricted use	NCOX 590	Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT

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Description

1 videocassette (VHS) (55 min.) : sound, color and black & white; 1/2 in.

Summary

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of composer Cole Porter, this profile provides a look at the man who embraced an elite lifestyle and chronicled the world of high society in words and music. Includes archival footage and interviews with his contemporaries and critics. Also includes rare photographs, performance footage, and excerpts from interviews with friends and associates.

Series Statement

American masters (Television program)

Uniform Title

American masters (Television program)

Alternative Title

Cole Porter story

Subjects

Genre/Form

Documentaries and factual works.
Television.

Access (note)

Restricted to qualified researchers.

Credits (note)

On-line editor, Scott P. Doniger.

Performer (note)

Host: Bobby Short.
Interviews: Richard Adler, Kitty Carlisle, Saul Chaplin, Honoria Murphy Donnelly, Alfred Drake, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Michael Feinstein, Ted Fetter, Cy Feuer, Brendan Gill, Bob Hope, Jean Howard, Garson Kanin, Gene Kelly, Robert Kimball, Lisa Kirk, Irving "Swifty" Lazar, Lilo, Ernest H. Martin, Tony Martin, Patricia Morison, Hermes Pan, Linda Ronstadt, Jonathan Schwartz, Alexis Smith, Saint Subber, Dionne Warwick, Maury Yeston, et al.
Archival footage: Cole Porter, Fred Astaire, Gertrude Lawrence, Ethel Merman, Bob Hope, Judy Garland, et al.

Event (note)

Originally broadcast on American Masters, WNET/13, New York, N.Y., July 23, 1990.

Linking Entry (note)

Forms part of the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Billy Rose Theatre Division.

Call Number

NCOX 590

OCLC

1037947217

Title

You're the top: the Cole Porter story [videorecording] / Executive producer, Susan Lacy ; producer, Kirk D'Amico ; line producer, Vera Aronow ; co-producer, Elizabeth Cotnoir ; written and directed by Allan Albert ; a co-production of VPI-Videfilm Producers International, WNET, and Channel Four.

Imprint

Los Angeles, Calif.: Island Visual Arts, c1990.

Series

American masters (Television program)

Access

Restricted to qualified researchers.

Credits

On-line editor, Scott P. Doniger.

Cast

Host: Bobby Short.

Interviews: Richard Adler, Kitty Carlisle, Saul Chaplin, Honoria Murphy Donnelly, Alfred Drake, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Michael Feinstein, Ted Fetter, Cy Feuer, Brendan Gill, Bob Hope, Jean Howard, Garson Kanin, Gene Kelly, Robert Kimball, Lisa Kirk, Irving "Swifty" Lazar, Lilo, Ernest H. Martin, Tony Martin, Patricia Morison, Hermes Pan, Linda Ronstadt, Jonathan Schwartz, Alexis Smith, Saint Subber, Dionne Warwick, Maury Yeston, et al.

Archival footage: Cole Porter, Fred Astaire, Gertrude Lawrence, Ethel Merman, Bob Hope, Judy Garland, et al.

Event

Originally broadcast on American Masters, WNET/13, New York, N.Y., July 23, 1990.

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Billy Rose Theatre Division.

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Added Author

Lacy, Susan, producer.

D'Amico, Kirk, producer.

Aronow, Vera, producer.

Cotnoir, Elizabeth, producer.

Albert, Allan, director.

Doniger, Scott P, editor of moving image work.

Short, Bobby, host.

Adler, Richard, 1921-2012, interviewee.

Carlisle, Kitty, 1910-2007, interviewee.

Chaplin, Saul, 1912-1997, interviewee.

Donnelly, Honoria Murphy, interviewee.

Drake, Alfred, 1914-1992, interviewee.

Fairbanks, Douglas, Jr., 1909-2000, interviewee.

Feinstein, Michael, interviewee.

Fetter, Ted, interviewee.

Feuer, Cy, interviewee.

Gill, Brendan, 1914-1997, interviewee.

Hope, Bob, 1903-2003, interviewee.

Hope, Bob, 1903-2003, performer.

Howard, Jean, 1910-2000, interviewee.

Kanin, Garson, 1912-1999, interviewee.

Kelly, Gene, 1912-1996, interviewee.

Kimball, Robert, interviewee.

Kirk, Lisa, interviewee.

Lazar, Irving, 1907-1993, interviewee.

Lilo, interviewee.

Martin, Ernest H., 1919-1995, interviewee.

Martin, Tony, 1913-2012, interviewee.

Morison, Patricia, 1915-2018, interviewee.

Pan, Hermes, 1905-1990, interviewee.

Ronstadt, Linda, interviewee.

Schwartz, Jonathan, 1938- interviewee.

Smith, Alexis, 1921-1993, interviewee.

Saint Subber, Arnold, interviewee.

Warwick, Dionne, interviewee.

Yeston, Maury, interviewee.

Porter, Cole, 1891-1964, composer.

Porter, Cole, 1891-1964, lyricist.

Porter, Cole, 1891-1964, performer.

Astaire, Fred, performer.

Lawrence, Gertrude, performer.

Merman, Ethel, performer.

Garland, Judy, performer.

Channel Four (Great Britain)

VPI-Videfilm Producers International, Ltd.

WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

American masters (Television program)

Research Call Number

NCOX 590

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