I really have a lot of trouble with this. Okay, I understand it's 1946 and you can't have Cole Porter chasing chorus boys and dishing the dirt on his sexless marriage and increasingly frustrated wife. Co-starring uber gay Monty Wooley (Porter's close friend in real life) strangely cast as his himself but as teacher from Yale (they were classmates) and takes the convenient plot cop out by blaming his wife Linda's marital frustrations on his career demands. More factual issues: Porter wasn't in the Army during WWI and certainly wasn't wounded. He didn't suffer his horse riding accident in a storm (it happened during a break from re-working the flop Broadway musical "You Never Know" in 1937, and his grandfather wasn't dying). Also, while there's some attention to period detail given to the cars, anachronisms abound in the post WW2 song arrangements, dress (okay most of it) and hair styles. Scenes are disjointed and anyone knowing even the superficial facts about Porter's life would find the whole production laughable. Cary Grant playing Cole Porter is like James Caan playing Billy Rose. Oooh, that one didn't work either. Porter, flawed as he was, deserved a less flawed bio-pic. The strange thing was that Porter liked it!
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