Showing posts with label Cole Porter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cole Porter. Show all posts

Monday, May 04, 2009

Bonus of the Newport Mansion Tour

Yesterday in Newport, we did the plus 1 tour of the mansions. I insisted on the Breakers and then Kari and I got our way for Rosecliff because we liked the picture of it in the brochure. Turns out that The Great Gatsby was filmed there. Robert Redford! Some other movies were filmed there too, but best of all to me, the docent said that Cole Porter composed Anything Goes there sometime in 1933 or 34. Maybe the Merm was Reno Sweeney-ing her way around that gorgeous lawn.