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You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story (Season 5, Episode 5)

TV-14

TV Episode | 56 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Biographical portrait of one of Broadway's most brilliant songwriters. Told through the use of archival material and interviews with the rich and famous that knew him, this portrait concentrates on his career and his public life events.

Director

Allan Albert

Writer

Allan Albert (written by)

Producer

Kirk D'Amico

Editor

Brian Williams

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Edit Released

Updated Jul 23, 1990

Release date

Jul 23, 1990 (United States)

Awards

Series awards

Won 27 Primetime Emmy Awards. Another 31 wins & 81 nominations

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Cast	+ Add Cast
39 cast members

Name	Known for
Bobby Short Narrator Narrator See fewer	Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Richard Adler Self Self See fewer	Goodfellas (1990)
Fred Astaire Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Funny Face (1957)
Kitty Carlisle Self (as Kitty Carlisle Hart) Self (as Kitty Carlisle Hart) See fewer	A Night at the Opera (1935)
Saul Chaplin Self Self See fewer	West Side Story (1961)
Cyd Charisse Self Self See fewer	Silk Stockings (1957)
Maurice Chevalier Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Gigi (1958)
Bing Crosby Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	White Christmas (1954)
Alfred Drake Self Self See fewer	Trading Places (1983)
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Self Self See fewer	The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
Michael Feinstein Self Self See fewer	Untitled George Gershwin Project
Ted Fetter Self Self See fewer	Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
Judy Garland Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Brendan Gill Self Self See fewer	Playdate (1961)
Cary Grant Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	North by Northwest (1959)
Bob Hope Self Self See fewer	The Ghost Breakers (1940)
Lena Horne Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Cabin in the Sky (1943)
Jean Howard Self Self See fewer	Claudia (1943)
Garson Kanin Self Self See fewer	Adam's Rib (1949)
Gene Kelly Self Self See fewer	Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Lisa Kirk Self Self See fewer	Studio One (1948)
Swifty Lazar Self (as Irving Paul Lazar) Self (as Irving Paul Lazar) See fewer	Neighbors (1981)
Shirley MacLaine Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Terms of Endearment (1983)
Mary Martin Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Peter Pan (1960)
Tony Martin Self Self See fewer	The Big Store (1941)
Johnny Mathis Self Self See fewer	Zodiac (2007)
Ethel Merman Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)
Robert H. Montgomery Jr. Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	American Playhouse (1980)
Patricia Morison Self Self See fewer	The Song of Bernadette (1943)
Janis Paige Self Self See fewer	Silk Stockings (1957)
Hermes Pan Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Top Hat (1935)
Cole Porter Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	At Long Last Love (1975)
Linda Ronstadt Self Self See fewer	The Pirates of Penzance (1983)
Arnold Saint Subber Self Self See fewer	Kiss Me Kate (1953)
Norma Shearer Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Divorcee (1930)
Frank Sinatra Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	From Here to Eternity (1953)
Alexis Smith Self Self See fewer	The Age of Innocence (1993)
Dionne Warwick Self Self See fewer	Alive (1993)
Maury Yeston Self Self See fewer	Nine (2009)