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    • Nov 20, 1945
    Filming wraps for "Night And Day," a Warner Bros. biopic on the life of songwriter Cole Porter, with Cary Grant taking the lead role. Porter had the lone country hit of his career earlier in the year, with Gene Autry's version of "Don't Fence Me In"
    Aug 1, 1946
    The movie "Night And Day" premieres in Hollywood, as California observes Cole Porter of Indiana Day. The movie sees Cary Grant portraying the life of Porter, with Roy Rogers singing "Don't Fence Me In"
    Jun 26, 1951
    The Yale Bowl in New Haven, Connecticut, presents Cole Porter Night, honoring a Yale grad who had become a leading voice for Broadway, and wrote the country hit "Don't Fence Me In." Porter, who is ill, does not attend
    Oct 5, 1951
    "Don't Fence Me In" songwriter Cole Porter enters Doctors Hospital in Manhattan, where he undergoes multiple shock treatments
    Nov 1, 1951
    Cole Porter, co-author of "Don't Fence Me In," is released from Doctors Hospital in New York after a stay of nearly four weeks in which he underwent repeated shock therapy for emotional problems
    Feb 24, 1952
    Songwriter Cole Porter, who co-wrote Gene Autry's country hit "Don't Fence Me In," is honored with a two-hour tribute on CBS-TV's "Toast Of The Town," later known as "The Ed Sullivan Show"
    Aug 2, 1952
    Katie Porter, the mother of Broadway composer Cole Porter, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage. Her son wrote the 1945 country hit "Don't Fence Me In"
    May 20, 1954
    Linda Porter, the wife of "Don't Fence Me In" songwriter Cole Porter, dies in their apartment at the Waldorf Towers in New York
    Jan 14, 1958
    "Don't Fence Me In" songwriter Cole Porter enters New York's Columbia Presbyterian Hospital with an infection in his leg bones
    Apr 3, 1958
    "Don't Fence Me In" songwriter Cole Porter has his right leg amputated mid-thigh at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York. Porter never writes a song again
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