* Robert Montgomery Jr.; Cole Porter Trustee
Robert Montgomery Jr., 77, entertainment lawyer and trustee of Cole Porter musicals. Montgomery spent 40 years with the Manhattan law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. Among his clients were composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and the late artist Andy Warhol, actress Marilyn Monroe and director Louis Malle. Montgomery had also worked with Cole Porter until the composer’s death in 1964, and became the trustee for the Cole Porter Musical and Literary Porperty Trusts in 1977. Montgomery was credited with finding a producer to re-create Porter’s “Kiss Me, Kate,” now a successful revival on Broadway. On Saturday in Sag Harbor, N.Y., of lung cancer.
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