
A love that would never die and music that would live forever.
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Cast
- Kevin Kline
- Ashley Judd
- Jonathan Pryce
- Kevin McNally
- Sandra Nelson
- Allan Corduner
- Peter Polycarpou
- Keith Allen
- James Wilby
- Kevin McKidd
- Richard Dillane
- Edward Baker-Duly
- Angie Hill
- Harry Ditson
- Tayler Hamilton
- Lexie Peel
- Greg Sheffield
- Peter Jessop
- Jeff Harding
- Susannah Fellows
- Teddy Kempner
- Cole Porter
- Robbie Williams
- Lemar
- Elvis Costello
- Alanis Morissette
- John Barrowman
- Caroline O'Connor
- Sheryl Crow
- Mick Hucknall
- Diana Krall
- Vivian Green
- Lara Fabian
- Mario Frangoulis
- Natalie Cole
- Julian Cannonier
- Elizabeth Cooper Gee
- Jacob Chapman
- Cavin Cornwall
- Matt Dempsey
- Heather Douglas
- Jonathan D. Ellis
- Jane Fowler
- Jason Gardiner
- Charlotte Gorton
- Nic Greenshields
- Akia Henry
- Steve West
- Duncan McVicar
- Karen McSween
- Michelle McSween
- Dale Mercer
- Samantha Modeste
- Odette Perdrisat
- Thern Reynolds
- Rachel Stanley
- Oliver Thornton
- Claire Winsper
- Dean Constantin
- Simon Adkins
- Paul Davis
- Helen Baker
- Gary Blair
- Hélène Cardona
- Rene Costa
- Nicola Dawn
- James Fisher
- Brian Harley
- Christine Hewett
- Andrew Langtree
- Michael Mansbridge
- Bernadette Jane Vanderkar
Plots
Inspecting a magical biographical stage musical, composer Cole Porter reviews his life and career with his wife, Linda.
De-Lovely is an original musical portrait of American composer Cole Porter, filled with his unforgettable songs. In the film, Porter is looking back on his life as if it was one of his spectacular stage shows, with the people and events of his life becoming the actors and action onstage. Through elaborate production numbers and popular hits like "Anything Goes," "It's De-Lovely," and "Night and Day," Porter's elegant, excessive past comes to light - including his deeply complicated relationship with his wife and muse, Linda Lee Porter.
Educated fleas in this vale of tears: the marriage of Cole Porter and his wife, Linda, told loosely as a three-act review with Porter watching. In act one, Porter and Linda meet in Paris, fall in love and marry with her knowledge of his being gay; on to Venice and New York, where parties, music, and their love lead him to decide to compose professionally. Act two is New York and Hollywood, where success awaits, as do an increasing number of young men who take Porter's attention from Linda and leave her lonely and apart. Act three begins with a crippling accident that brings Linda back to Porter's side, their attentiveness to each other renewed in his pain and her illness.