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    • Oct 24, 1937
    Broadway composer Cole Porter breaks both legs in a horse-riding accident in Locust Valley on Long Island. He suffers complications for the remainder of his life, which includes a country hit after Gene Autry records "Don't Fence Me In"
    Feb 3, 1938
    Cole Porter is admitted to New York's Doctors Hospital, where he has a second round of surgery on his legs, which were crushed in a horse-riding accident four months earlier. Porter's country credits later include Gene Autry's "Don't Fence Me In"
    Jun 9, 1938
    Happy birthday: The day he turns 47, songwriter Cole Porter breaks his left leg when he trips on a staircase in New York. Porter had broken both legs in October while horse-riding. Porter's resume will include Gene Autry's "Don't Fence Me In"
    Oct 19, 1941
    Composer Cole Porter checks into Doctors Hospital in Manhattan, where he has surgery on his left leg nearly seven years after he first broke it. Porter has already written "Don't Fence Me In," which goes on to become a country hit for Gene Autry
    Oct 10, 1942
    The music of Cole Porter and Buddy De Sylva is featured as the movie "You Can't Escape Forever" debuts. The cast includes ex-Grand Ole Opry comedian Lee "Lasses" White as a truck driver
    Feb 25, 1943
    The Don Ameche musical "Something To Shout About" debuts in movie theaters. Cole Porter supplies the songs, and former Grand Ole Opry comedian Lee "Lasses" White fills a minor role
    Jul 25, 1944
    Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters record Cole Porter's "Don't Fence Me In" in Los Angeles for the movie "Hollywood Canteen." Gene Autry remakes it as a country hit the following year
    Oct 8, 1944
    Kate Smith introduces the country to the Cole Porter/Bob Fletcher tune "Don't Fence Me In" during a radio broadcast. In short order, the song is a pop hit for Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters, and a country hit for Gene Autry
    Jun 14, 1945
    Cary Grant begins work on the Warner Bros. movie "Night And Day," a biopic on the life of Cole Porter. Grant portrays Porter, who is coming off the only country hit of his career, Gene Autry's recording of his "Don't Fence Me In"
    Oct 20, 1945
    Roy Rogers sings the Cole Porter-penned title song with the movie debut of "Don't Fence Me In." Dale Evans, Trigger and The Sons Of The Pioneers are also featured
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