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Released
2004 · FILM

De-Lovely

A charismatic Cole Porter navigates the dazzling highs and turbulent lows of love, fame, and creativity as his passionate life and marriage to the inspiring Linda Lee Thomas fuel the timeless songs that define an era.

A love that would never die and music that would live forever.

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Runtime
125 min
BiographyDramaMusic

Synopsis

Cole Porter and his wife, Linda Lee Thomas, led lives marked by glamour and unconventional choices, spanning locales such as Paris, Venice, Broadway, and Hollywood. While Porter's intense passion for life put strain on their marriage, Linda remained a consistent source of inspiration for him, contributing to the creation of some of the most celebrated songs of the twentieth century.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 18

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Julie MonroeShot by Tony Pierce RobertsDesigned by Eve Stewart

Box Office

2004 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.2× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$18.4M

Budget$15.0M
Worldwide gross$18.4M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $13.5M 73% of worldwide · International: $4.9M (27%)

Opening weekend: $293K 2% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $509K4% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 16 theaters

Also known as

  • De-Lovely - Die Cole Porter Storyde

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