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Du Barry Was a Lady is a 1943 American musical comedy film directed by Roy Del Ruth, starring Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, Gene Kelly, and Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra. It is based on the 1939 stage musical of the same name. Shot in Technicolor, the film was produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer .
Du Barry Was a Lady is a Broadway musical, with music and lyrics by Cole Porter, and the book by Herbert Fields and Buddy DeSylva. [1] The musical starred Bert Lahr , Ethel Merman and Betty Grable , and the song "Friendship" was one of the highlights.
Du Barry Was a Lady: Directed by Roy Del Ruth. With Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, Gene Kelly, Virginia O'Brien. A nightclub's coatroom attendant who's in love with the club's singer accidentally sips a drugged drink that makes him dream he's French King Louis XV, courting the infamous Madame Du Barry.
Synopsis. Although both coatroom attendant Louis Blore and songwriter and emcee Alec Howe are in love with Club Petite singer May Daly, she claims to be interested only in rich men, such as her devout admirer Willie.
Dubarry Was a Lady (1943) #WarnerArchive #WarnerBros #DubarryWasaLady Hapless nightclub hatcheck boy Red Skelton loves glamorous chanteuse Lucille Ball. Handsome hoofer Gene Kelly loves...
Du Barry Was a Lady. In this adaptation of a Cole Porter Broadway musical, star singer May (Lucille Ball) wants to marry a rich man, but her heart belongs to a penniless dancer named Alec (Gene...
- Musical, Comedy
A nightclub's coatroom attendant who's in love with the club's singer accidentally sips a drugged drink that makes him dream he's French King Louis XV, courting the infamous Madame Du Barry.
Du Barry Was a Lady. A nightclub lackey dreams he's France's King Louis XVI in this amusing comedy starring Lucille Ball and Gene Kelly. 129 IMDb 6.1 1 h 40 min 1943. Comedy · Arts, Entertainment, and Culture · Romance. Available to rent or buy.
Lucille Ball, Gene Kelly, Red Skelton and Zero Mostel star in the Cole Porter musical comedy DuBarry was a Lady. In this film, loosely based on the hit Broadway musical, Manhattan nightclub worker Louis Blore (Skelton) has dreams of showgirl May Daly (Ball--"I Love Lucy").
When Louis wins the Irish Sweepstakes, he asks May to marry him and she accepts even though she doesn't love him. Soon after, Louis has an accident and gets knocked on the head, where he dreams that he's King Louis XV pursuing the infamous Madame Du Barry.
