De-Lovely [Special Edition]

Director: Irwin Winkler

Overview

"The public and private lives of famed songwriter Cole Porter are both explored in this musical drama, in which the aging Porter (played by Kevin Kline) looks back on his life while watching a rehearsal of a stage musical based on his story. As Porter com

Product Details

Release Date:	06/21/2005
UPC:	0027616914378
Original Release:	2004
Rating:	PG-13
Source:	Mgm (Video & Dvd)
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	2:05:00

Special Features

Closed Caption;Audio commentary by director Irwin Winkler and Kevin Kline; Audio commentary by director Irwin Winkler and writer Jay Cocks; "Making of De-Lovely" featurette; "Music of De-Lovely" featurette; Anatomy of a scene: Be a clown; Anatomy of a scene: Love for sale; Deleted scenes; De-Lovely soundtrack tv spot; Original theatrical trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Kevin Kline	Cole Porter
Ashley Judd	Linda Porter
Jonathan Pryce	Gabe
Kevin McNally	Gerald Murphy
Sandra Nelson	Sara Murphy
Allan Corduner	Monty Woolley,Monty Woolley
Peter Polycarpou	Louis B. Mayer
Keith Allen	Irving Berlin
James Wilby	Edward Thomas
Kevin McKidd	Bobby Reed
Richard Dillane	Bill Wrather
Edward Baker-Duly	Boris Kochno
Angie Hill	Ellin Berlin
Harry Ditson	Dr. Moorhead
Tayler Hamilton	Honoria Murphy
Lexie Peel	Patrick Murphy
Greg Sheffield	Boath Murphy
Peter Jessop	Diaghilev
Jeff Harding	Cody
Susannah Fellows	Mrs. L.B. Mayer
Teddy Kempner	Stage Manager
Robbie Williams	Performer
Lemar Obika	Performer
Elvis Costello	Perfomer
Alanis Morissette	Perfomer
John Barrowman	Perfomer
Caroline O'Connor	Perfomer
Sheryl Crow	Perfomer
Mick Hucknall	Perfomer
Diana Krall	Perfomer
Vivian Green	Perfomer
Lara Fabian	Perfomer
Mario Frangoulis	Perfomer
Natalie Cole	Perfomer
Leopold Lemarchand	Musical Performer
Nicola Dawn	Actor
Gene Shalit	Actor

Technical Credits

Jay Cocks

Chris Brown	Special Effects
Simon Channing Williams	Executive Producer
Rob Cowan	Producer
Gail Egan	Executive Producer
Simon Frame	Special Effects
Nina Gold	Casting
Irwin Winkler	Producer,Producer
Jay Cocks	Screenwriter
Tim Fraser	Sound/Sound Designer

Scene Index

Side #1 --
1. Main Title/Funeral Music [2:43]
2. "It's Your Life, Cole" [3:18]
3. A Love Story [2:07]
4. Well, Did You Evah! [3:42]
5. Too Soon for Easy to Love [4:14]
6. Every Kind of Love [3:19]
7. It's De-Lovely/Wedding [5:24]
8. Berlin in Venice [2:11]
9. This Thing Called Love [3:20]
10. What Happens in Daylight [1:10]
11. Let's Misbehave/Changes [3:44]
12. New York/Let's Do It [3:59]
13. True Love/Kids' Serenade [4:08]
14. A Night and Day Challenge [4:26]
15. Newly Inconsiderate [3:31]
16. Anything Goes [1:26]
17. Castles of Sand [1:02]
18. Begin the Beguine [3:29]
19. Not Meant to Be [3:21]
20. Hollywood Life/Be a Clown [4:29]
21. I Love You Tritely [1:58]
22. Just One of Those Things [2:30]
23. Experiment With Leaving [2:08]
24. Love for Sale [2:45]
25. The Devoted Mr. Reed [1:20]
26. Well-Bred Dishonesty [3:50]
27. Loneliness Breeds Pain [4:22]
28. "I Can't Work the Pedals!" [2:23]
29. Dying for a Happy Ending [3:40]
30. Delightful New Friend [1:51]
31. So in Love... [2:23]
32. ...To the End [7:27]
33. Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye [3:11]
34. Phantom Pains [1:55]
35. Blow, Gabriel, Blow [5:40]
36. You're the Top/Credits [5:42]

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Making of De-Lovely Featurette
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Anatomy of a Scene: Be a Clown Featurette
Anatomy of a Scene: Love for Sale Featurette
Deleted Scenes
Cole Porter as a Child
Cole Porter and Love
Linda and Cole at a Distance
You Do Something to Me
The Murphys Sing
Be a Clown, Version 1
Be a Clown, Version 2
Can't Turn Shakespeare Into a Musical
Alternate Ending
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De-Lovely Soundtrack TV Spot
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Editorial Reviews

By all accounts, songwriter Cole Porter was just as charming and sophisticated as the lyrics he wrote for such classic pop tunes as “Night and Day,” “You’re the Top,” “Begin the Beguine,” and “It’s De-Lovely,” all of which are heard in this elaborately mounted biographical film. But Porter, who spent his last 27 years crippled and in pain from injuries sustained in a riding accident, was a man of great contradictions. For instance, despite his obvious affections for Linda Lee Thomas, the wealthy socialite to whom he remained married, he continued to pursue male lovers. Costars Kevin Kline and Ashley Judd adroitly capture Cole and Linda’s dynamic here, playing the roles very much like the protagonists in a Depression-era stage musical or a Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers movie. They glide gracefully and seemingly effortlessly through life, enjoying the finest of everything and numbering among their friends many of the most famous and fascinating people of the pre-World War II era. Yet Cole has needs that Linda cannot meet; it’s a measure of their worldliness that she tolerates his dalliances because she’d rather have him some of the time than not at all. Screenwriter Jay Cocks employs an endearingly corny device to tell Cole’s story: The tunesmith’s life unfolds as a series of scenes rehearsed on a heavenly stage under the direction of an angel (played by Jonathan Pryce). In many respects, filmmaker Irwin Winkler -- who previously directed Kline in Life as a House -- re-creates the period accurately, though the use of contemporary pop artists (Alanis Morissette, Elvis Costello, Sheryl Crow) is a jarringly discordant note in the otherwise pitch-perfect replication of a bygone era. That aside, De-Lovely is as delightful and delicious as you could hope.