Cole Porter

Photograph

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20th-Century American Backgammon

Name/Title

Cole Porter

Entry/Object ID

BG-2024.0403

Description

Cole Porter looking dapper in a houndstooth jacket in this portrait. An avid player, Porter referenced backgammon in a 1934 lyric: "Thank You So Much, Mrs. Lowsborough" . . . for the ptomaine I got from your famous tin salmon / For the fortune I lost when you taught me backgammon . . .".

Photograph Details

Type of Photograph

Press Photo

Subject Person or Organization

Cole Porter

Category

Doublock
Doubling Device

Made/Created

Artist Information

Attribution

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Date made

circa 1937

Time Period

Modern Backgammon

Other Names and Numbers

Other Numbers

Number Type

Sequence

Other Number

1937

Web Links and URLs

Auction record of Porter's backgammon board