- Hilarious in Hindsight: The Hays Office insisted that The Gay Divorce be renamed... to The Gay Divorcee, because while a divorcee could be happy, a divorce should be a somber matter. One imagines that Porter was quite amused by the Double Entendre that emerged in the subsequent decades- assuming that the title wasn't a Censor Decoy to begin with, as Have a Gay Old Time had already set in for the trope namer by the 30's.
- Signature Song: "Night and Day", "Begin the Beguine", "I Get a Kick Out of You", and "I've Got You Under My Skin", among others.
- So Bad, It's Good: Cole Porter's failed attempt to do rock 'n' roll in his 1957 song "The Ritz Roll and Rock".
- Values Dissonance: It is hard for modern audiences to realize just how daring Porter was in his time.
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