MY ARTIST OF THE WEEK--
ELVIS PRESLEY~I Can't Help Falling In Love With You
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In 1957, “Les Girls” became the last Gene Kelly film for MGM and the last Cole Porter score written for Hollywood. None of its songs made its way into the Great American Songbook. The title sounded too much like “lay girls,” so when NBC adapted it as a sitcom for Larry Blyden in the early Sixties, the title was changed to “Larry’s Girls.”
Cole lost his other leg in 1958, and the fire went out. His last score was for television, a 1958 “DuPont Show of the Month” for CBS that was telecast live. Viewed in the long run, “True Love” was to be Cole’s swan song.
In 1977, during his last days, an enterprising journalist got an interview with this legend of British stage and screen. Cyril said that his favorite role was Captain Hook in Broadway and television’s “Peter Pan,” a well written turn that permitted him to “chew the scenery.”
This is a rare kinescope from “Aladdin,” which pre-empted both “Leave it to Beaver” and “Zane Grey Theater” one Friday night in February 1958.
If the song bears an interesting resemblance to Irving Berlin’s “Puttin’ on the Ritz,” it may not be a coincidence.