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As noted before, Cole Porter wrote “What Am I to Do?” For The Man Who Came to Dinner…He also wrote “Farewell Amanda” for the Tracy-Hepburn film Adam’s Rib. In the film David Wayne continually serenades hepburn’s character much to Tracy’s chagrin… It’s heard on the radio sung by Frank Sinatra who...

And “Miss Otis Regrets” covered by everyone from Cab Calloway to Labelle!!! Bette Midler performed a rollicking version on Johnny Carson’s final show…

The character “Beverly Carlton” is a thinly disguised nod to Noel Coward. In fact for the 1939 production Cole Porter wrote a song for the character titled “What Am I to Do?”…It’s a brilliant slyly snarky send up of Coward’s writing style. Alas, it never made it to the film…Monty Woolley was a...