Early Life
Born in Peru, Indiana in this year.
1891
Some people get a kick from this song
Famous 1934 musical
Anything Goes
Mount Hope Cemetery
The Cole Porter Festival is held on this weekend in June every year in Peru, Indiana.
2nd Weekend
Attended this Ivy League University.
Yale
Night and ____
Day
Cole won a Tony for this musical
Kiss Me, Kate
This European city was home to Porter during WWI and it influenced many of his works.
This Shakespeare play inspired Porter's Tony Award-winning musical.
The Taming of the Shrew
Entered Harvard to study this after completing his BA in English.
Law
I've Got You Under My ________
Skin
This musical is about the showgirls at a Parisian dance hall.
Can-Can
This California town was home to Porter in the summers, and it is where he passed from Kidney failure
Santa Monica
The name of Porters wife.
Linda Lee Thomas
Huntington and Third
Anything Goes classic compares someone to great treasures.
You're the Top
This musical appeared on Broadway in 1930 and the story came from a magazine cartoonist whose magazine and show title were very similar
The New Yorkers
Porter's Steinway grand piano which he used while composing most of his songs, is on display in the lobby of this hotel.
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
Cole Porter's father was this profession.
Pharmacist
This song popularized the term Beguine
Begin the Beguine
She was called the "undisputed First Lady of the musical comedy stage", which makes sense since she was in 5 of Cole Porter's Broadway productions and 1 film adaptation.
Ethel Merman
Worchester Academy
The make and model of Porter's car on display in the Miami County Musuem
1955 Fleetwood Cadillac