COLE PORTER: A BIOGRAPHY.(Review)

American Scholar | March 22, 1999| | Copyright

COLE PORTER: A BIOGRAPHY By William McBrien. Knopf. $30.

Movie magazines of the 1930s carried backpage advertisements offering a fifteen-dollar correspondence course on writing "hit popular songs." The financial returns that the ad implied one could pull down were clearly substantial enough to lift the possessor of song-writing secrets right off a Depression breadline. The ads caught my eye because I aspired to be a song lyricist like Lorenz Hart or Ira Gershwin or even Cole Porter. I had played Ethel Merman belting out "You're the Top" over and over on my old ...

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