It's De-Lovely
If you're staying home tonight and have nothing to do rent the 2004 film "De-Lovely." Trust me, you won't be disappointed. I'll post a link to one of the songs and hope Monty enjoys it too!
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Here you go:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMFfWBEf6MY
Great, great song. Thanks so much for posting the link. I must look for this film. I was always so disappointed in the Cary Grant version of Cole Porter's life....the man was a musical genius and deserved so much more than that sanitized offering. I also loved the art work accompanying the song...do you happen to know the artist?
Wow, neat, Penultimate! Enjoyed that very much.
Thanks for posting that, and, I'll have to check out that movie, sounds wonderful.
BTW, I scrolled through the "Related Videos" column (over to the right) and the one called "The Old Hollywood Glamour, DeLovely" (scroll quite a looong scroll!) shows some knockout "glamour shots" of the old (gorgeous!) stars set to that same song. Worth checking out.
The Old Hollywood was most definitely glamorous!
Penultimate: I saw the movie in the theatre and loved it. Cole Porter is one of my favorite composers.
Thanks for the link, Penultimate. It's fun to visit this site and learn something new and interesting. Cole Porter wrote such sophisticated lyrics that some of them had to be changed when popular singers made records of his songs.
I totally agree that the Cary Grant movie was just a bit of fluff - but it did have some things right.
My favorite Porter song is Every Time We Say Goodbye - it's sad but beautiful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGNLLJz4Ajw&feature=related
"DeLovely" is one of my all time favorite movies !
Boring movie? Hardly, surely you jest.
In my opinion, Cole Porter was the greatest composer ever. Although Cole is gone, his music will never die. His Broadway plays are still being done every day somewhere in the world.
I am proud to say that I lovingly painted all three suites in Cole's Birthplace in Peru, In. What a treat for me when I painted Cole's Birthroom while listening to his music - wow !
Cole's the top and even Irving Berlin was quoted as saying that Cole Porter was the best of all of them
(songwriters).
Thank you Cole Porter for enriching my life.
Oops. I couldn't let this one go by.
Being a huge Cole Porter fan, and really a fan of traditional music for ADULTS I was thrilled to hear of a new Cole Porter bio pic. I went to see it and couldn't believe how bad it was. The musical interpretations were awful with the exception of Natalie Cole's song. The story was non-existent--basically, Porter fools around, his wife gets pissed, takes him back, he fools around again. And not one mention or portrayal of him as a 'BROADWAY' composer. Ugh. Characterizations were absurd: Irving Berlin appeared to be a New England Wasp, graduate of Yale, rather than a Lower East Side Jew.
And what was up with Jonathan Pryce's character? How absurd. Can't anyone get it anymore? Just tell a story.
Blecch.