* HilariousInHindsight: The [[UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode Hays Office]] insisted that ''The Gay Divorce'' be renamed... to ''The Gay Divorce'''e''''', because while a divorcee could be happy, a divorce should be a somber matter. One imagines that Porter was quite amused by the DoubleEntendre that emerged in the subsequent decades- assuming that the title wasn't a CensorDecoy to begin with, as HaveAGayOldTime had already set in for the trope namer by the 30's.
* SignatureSong: "Night and Day", "Begin the Beguine", "I Get a Kick Out of You", and "I've Got You Under My Skin", among others.
* SoBadItsGood: Cole Porter's failed attempt to do rock 'n' roll in his 1957 song "The Ritz Roll and Rock".
* ValuesDissonance: It is hard for modern audiences to realize just [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar how daring]] Porter was in his time.
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