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“Another ‘date’ was Marilyn Monroe. One evening while she and Arlen were dancing, he said, ‘People are staring at us.’
‘They must know who you are,” she told him.”
–Edward Jablonski, Harold Arlen
“Although it was not a hit, Porter and Chaplin both thought of ‘I Love You, Samantha” as their favorite number from the score. John Patrick remembered that one exchange he had with Cole when working on High Society concerned rhymes: ‘[Cole] said to me once, ‘The leading lady’s name is Samantha; what the hell rhymes with Samantha?’ [Patrick] said, ‘Lovely as a panther?’ He said, ‘Get out of my house.’”
–William McBrien, Cole Porter
