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Magazine Article
What Is This Thing Called Love?
2004
Overview
\"Cole Porter, the subject of [ the 2004 film, De-Lovely ], was one of America's wittiest and most innovative composers. But his unconventional marriage steals the show...Linda Lee, 8 to 14 years Porter's senior (accounts differ), was a wealthy divorcee...Porter was homosexual...What Porter saw in Linda was sophistication, security and someone to help him satisfy his voracious social appetite. She saw him as a ticket to a world equally remote to her...For more than 30 years, [the two were] each other's companion, inspiration, comfort, protector and guiding light.\" (Smithsonian) Cole's seminal musical career and \"remarkable, unorthodox marriage\" are explored. The 2004 film De-Lovely, a \"cinematic rendering of...Porter's life,\" is briefly discussed.
Publisher
Smithsonian Magazine
