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You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 0044008320135
Format: NTSC
Label: Polygram Records
Manufacturer: Polygram Records
Publisher: Polygram Records
Release Date: April 16, 1991
Studio: Polygram Records
Theatrical Release Date: 1990
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Rating:  - Good!
An enjoyable overview of Porter's life and career. Far too short for my liking but an improvement on that dire "DELOVELY" movie.
The contributions from Porter's friends and collaborators is a treasure as most of them have passed on.
Cole, edited by Robert Kimball.
Cole Porter A Biography
Rating:  - Porter was one of the masters of American song writing, and naughty as well.
What a strange combination of information and frustration is this 56 minute television documentary on the life and works of Cole Porter. On the one hand, we have an abbreviated but honest look at one of America's greatest Broadway songwriters. On the other hand, the examples given us of Porter's songs are more often than not drawn from terrible TV kinescopes and excerpts from some of the lead-foot Hollywood musicals made from his Broadway shows. The result is informative but irritating.
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Rating: - Perfect Documentary
If you want to know Cole Porter, this is a better introduction than the recent film effort, "De-Lovely," and far better than the old Cary Grant fiction. Both movies fudge on Cole's character, with "De-Lovely" trying to depict Porter as a guy working out his gay issues through marriage, which is total nonsense.
Cole Porter was arguably the greatest of all the composers of American Standards, for reasons explained in "You're the Top". And to explain this, as well as to outline one of ... Read More
Rating: - I want more!
This is really a wonderful treat for fans of Cole Porter or those who know little about him. It has a nice mix of rare and familiar songs mixed with thoughts and recollections about Cole by various friends, musicians, and performers. You get a nice sense of what his life was like along with a decent overview of his music.
If you have never heard of Cole (or know very little about him), you will probably be a fan after viewing this. Even if you are very familiar with Cole, you still will find some ... Read More
Rating: - Informative but limited
This dvd was informative as a standard biography, however there is not much in terms of extras on the disk. The DVD format provides an opportunity for a topic such as this to be covered richly. Unfortunately that is not the case with this disk.
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