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    Which infamous adultress was immortalised with a mention in Cole Porter's "You're the Top?"

    Question #41783. Asked by MaggieG 5. (Nov 30 03 1:08 PM)


    Roget

    		I did find this:

    Before she married the Duke of Argyll, Margaret was the wife of expatriate American banker Charlie Sweeny and the toast of British society. In his 1934 musical Anything Goes, Cole Porter tipped his top hat to her in the lyric of his popular evergreen You're the Top:

    You’re the top; you’re an Arrow collar,
    You’re the top; you’re a Coolidge dollar,
    You’re the nimble tread of the feet of Fred Astaire,
    You’re Mussolini, you’re Mrs. Sweeny, you’re Camembert.

    From: http://www.longbeachopera.org/gallery/coin_phf.html

    It seems the later divorce of Margaret and the Duke caused a sensation.


    Nov 30 03, 3:01 PM
    MaggieG 5

    		Yay, Roget! Famous for appearing with a headless man in a photograph it was indeed the Duchess of Argyll. Quite a girl by the sound of it!

    Nov 30 03, 4:00 PM

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