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.
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