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A raft of Cole Porter classics buoys George Sidney’s delightfully zany backstage meta-musical about putting on a show: KISS ME KATE

KISS ME KATE, US 1953, 110 minutes. Starring Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller, Keenan Wynn, Bobby Van, Tommy Rall and James Whitmore. Directed by George Sidney; screenplay by Dorothy Kingsley, from the musical play by Samuel and Bella Spewack with songs by Cole Porter. MGM/Warner Archive

You do realise this whole inter-meta-textuality mise-en-abîme post-narrative thing etc. is hardly modern or even new. That quaint and all but abandoned musical genre has always had a ball playing with it — the…