- His estate continues to earn revenue in excess of $3 million per year, which is disbursed among numerous relatives.
- When he died he gave his 350-acre estate, known as Buxton Hill, to Williams College.
- The lyrics to "I Get A Kick Out Of You", which first appeared in the Broadway musical "Anything Goes" (1936), were changed in the aftermath of the kidnapping of the son of Charles A. Lindbergh in 1932. The lines, "I never cared for those nights in the air or the fair (ordeal) Mrs. Lindbergh went through" became "flying too high with some guy in the sky is my idea of nothing to do".
- Considered somewhat "washed up" at the time he wrote what would become his greatest musical, "Kiss Me, Kate". Although many of the musicals he wrote songs for between 1937-8 achieved good runs, none of them contained any truly classic hit songs. That changed when he wrote the score for "Kiss Me, Kate", which contained "So In Love", "Wunderbar", "Too Darn Hot", "Brush Up Your Shakespeare", "Were Thine That Special Face", and others. However, because "Kate" was written in 1948, there is no mention of it in the Porter biographical film Night and Day (1946).
- He was so fond of the "So Good Fudge" made in his hometown of Peru, IN, at Louis Arnold's Candy Kitchen, that he had nine pounds sent to him each month wherever he was in the world.
- Lived at the Waldorf-Astoria Tower in New York City from 1939-64. A young hotel worker named Glory Santos was assigned to his suite as room service concierge soon after he moved in. He befriended her and would play new compositions he was working on to get her opinion. Among the first of these compositions was the song called "I Concentrate on You".
- In 1949 he won two Tony Awards for "Kiss Me, Kate": Best Composer and Lyricist, and for music and lyrics as part of the Best Musical Award.
- Some 900 songs are attributed to him.
- Awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 7080 Hollywood Blvd.
- It is said that while on his honeymoon in Ravenna (Italy), he was so impressed by the mood of the small Mausoleum of Galla Placidia that he wrote his famous song "Night and Day" while thinking of the starry sky mosaic under Mausoleum's cupola.
- Pictured on a 29¢ US commemorative postage stamp in the Performing Arts series, issued 5/22/91, celebrating the 100th anniversary of his birth.
- Older brother and sister (Louis and Rachel) died in infancy
- Class valedictorian of Worcester Academy in Worcester, MA, an elite prep school. Alums include 1960s icon Abbie Hoffman, "Durango Kid" cowboy actor Charles Starrett and screenwriter Caitlin McCarthy.
- His musical "Kiss Me Kate", performed at the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre in London, was nominated for a 1998 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award as Outstanding Musical Production of 1997. His musical "Anything Goes" performed at the Royal National Theatre in 2002, was awarded the 2003 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Outstanding Musical Production. His musical "High Society", performed at the Open Air Theatre, was nominated for a 2004 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award as Outstanding Musical Production of 2003.
- Referenced in the song 'The Call of the Wild (Merengue)' by David Byrne on his 1989 album, "Rei Momo".
- A member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, from his undergraduate days.
- Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.
- Portrayed by Cary Grant in Night and Day (1946) Kevin Kline in De-Lovely (2004), both based (to some degree) on his life.
- In his series 20th Century Greats (2004), British composer and presenter Howard Goodall made a case for Porter as one of the four most important composers of the 20th century, along with Leonard Bernstein, Bernard Herrmann and the Lennon (John Lennon)\McCartney (Paul McCartney) songwriting partnership.
- His musical "Kiss Me Kate", performed at the Victoria Palace Theatre in London, was awarded the 2001 London Critics Circle Theatre Award for Best Musical. His musical "Anything Goes", performed at the Royal National Theatre, was awarded the 2002 London Critics Circle Award (Drama) for Best Musical.
- Born to a wealthy family in Indiana, Porter defied his grandfather's wishes for him to practice law and took up music as a profession.
- The Cole Porter Festival is held every year in June in his hometown of Peru, Indiana, to foster music and art appreciation.[136] Costumed singers in the cabaret-style Cole Porter Room at the Indiana Historical Society's Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center in Indianapolis take requests from visitors and perform Porter's hit songs.
- In 2014, Porter was honored with a plaque on the Legacy Walk in Chicago, which celebrates LGBT achievers.
- Mentioned in The $99,000 Answer (1956).
- Porter is a member of the American Theater Hall of Fame and Great American Songbook Hall of Fame, which recognized his "musically complex songs with witty, urbane lyrics".
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