Porteriana: "SILK STOCKINGS"

Speranza

"All of you"

Porter's final Broadway show was this painfully assembled, unsatisfying effort.

Facing severe out-of-town troubles, librettist-director Kaufman and his wife MacGrath were replaced by Burrows, who had been on GUYS AND DOLLS. and CAN-CAN.

Porter did some final work in Hollywood, including "True love" for the film "High Society", and the TV musical "Aladdin".

In April of 1958 he finally lost his long-time medical battle: his leg had to be amputated.

Porter withdrew from public view and stopped writing.

After several years of ill health and severe depression, he died of pneumonia in Santa Monica.