"It was tradition in olden Hollywood to chuck the truth-to bend, twist and invent a new truth that made for better, more homogenized entertainment," film critic and historian Leonard Maltin says of Night and Day.Ĭhanging mores have set the stage for a more accurate cinematic rendering of Cole Porter's life.
Porter was homosexual, and some biographers think "In the Still of the Night" was written for one of his lovers. And while it was true that Linda and Cole would marry, theirs was an unconventional relationship. Far from being the demure debutante who roomed with Porter's cousin, Linda Lee, 8 to 14 years Porter's senior (accounts differ), was a wealthy divorcée. And he didn't meet Linda Lee until 1918-in Paris. To begin with, Porter, who left Harvard law school in 1914 without graduating, didn't write "In the Still of the Night" until 1937.
After seeing the film, Porter pronounced with obvious satisfaction: "None of it's true."
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The 1946 movie Night and Day, starring Cary Grant as Porter, was a grand deception. Porter and Lee have only just met, but the intensity in their eyes suggests that the seeds of a profound passion have already taken root in their hearts. Porter gazes across the room at Linda Lee, the cousin's roommate who has come to celebrate Christmas on the Porter family farm in Peru, a humble town on the plains of northern Indiana. In the still of the night, While the world is in slumber, Oh, the times without number, Darling, when I say to you, "Do you love me as I love you? Are you my life-to-be, my dream come true?" Carolers, joined by his female cousin, sing: A stand of logs burns brightly in the fireplace, snowflakes flicker at the window, and servants attend the gentlemen and ladies gathered around a grand piano played by a young Cole Porter, on holiday break from Harvard law school.
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