Red, Hot and Blue is a stage musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. It premiered on Broadway in 1936 and introduced the popular song "It's De-Lovely," sung by Ethel Merman and Bob Hope.
1936 original broadway production playbill cover
Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter. Many of his songs became standards noted for their witty, urbane lyrics, and many of his scores found success on Broadway and in Hollywood films.
Porter in the 1930s
Farmhouse at Westleigh Farms
Porter as a Yale College student
Lady in Blue, 1906 portrait of Linda Lee Thomas by Emil Fuchs