Du Barry Was a Lady (1943) |
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Du Barry Was a Lady Cast |
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Gene Kelly
with Lucille Ball
(as May Daly | Madame Du Barry)
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Other InformationPlot SummaryThe racy, ribald Cole Porter musical Du Barry Was a Lady is here given a thorough dry-cleaning by prudish MGM. Richard "Red" Skelton takes over the role of Louis Blore (played on Broadway by Bert Lahr), while Lucille Ball steps into the shoes of the ... TaglineThe musical extravaganza that tops great Ziegfeld glory! Related MoviesVamping Venus [Remake of] (Year of movie: 1928) DiscographySinglesWe`ll Get It Friendship A Hot Time in the Old Town Song of the Rebellion Madame, I Like Your Crepe Suzettes Katie Went to Haiti Ladies of Bath I Love an Esquire Girl Salome I`m Getting Sentimental Over You You are My Sunshine Sleepy Lagoon A Cigarette, Sweet Music and You (I`ve Grown So Lonely) Thinking of You Mon Homme (My Man) Do I Love You? DuBarry Was a Lady |
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Trivia and QuotesQuotes King Louis XV: For parading without a license each of you gets thirty days. For planning to knock me off, you get the guillotine.
King Louis XV: We`ll give him a fair trial. Then we`ll hang him.
King Louis XV: Hey! Men don`t kiss men!
Dauphin: They do in France, Pop.
Louis Blore: Here`s to I, May, and you - the eternal rectangle. If this was back in the glorious days of France, I would be King Louis, May would be Du Barry, and you would be one of the common folks - a peasant.
Charlie: We`ll slip him a Rooney.
Louis Blore: A Rooney? What`s that?
Charlie: It`s a high-powered Mickey.
Louis Blore: She`s just excited. She`s never married me before.
Charlie: That`s OK, he`s snapping back to abnormal now.
Ginny: You never look at me like that.
Louis Blore: You never look like that.
Black Arrow: Be brave, my friend, you`re dying for your country.
Taliostra: Yeah, but I was born in the city!
Dauphin: Get your Daily Chopping Guide! You can`t tell which head is which without a program!
Duc de Rigor: Who dares to interfere?
King Louis XV: Me! My Majesty!
May Daly: I see you want to buy me.
Louis Blore: Gosh no, Miss Daly, I want to marry you!
Louis Blore: You remind me of one of those girls in Esquire, the ones with clothes on, of course.
Ginny: Can`t you see I love you and want you for the father of my children?
Louis Blore: I didn`t know you had any!
Niagara: What are you doing, playing one-nighters in dressing rooms?
Niagara: Land`s sakes, what`s he trying to do, landscape you?
Trivia When the swami (Zero Mostel) makes mock-love to Mrs. McGowan (Kay Aldridge) as if she were Hedy Lamarr, he`s parodying Charles Boyer, particularly his role as Pepe le Moko in Algiers (1938). This was Zero Mostel`s film debut. Ann Sothern was supposed to have the role of May Daly (Madame Du Barry) but discovered she was pregnant. Lucille Ball was given her role instead. Near the end of the movie when Red Skelton, as Louis, has an arrow stuck in his rear-end, as he pleads for it to be removed he cracks: "Hurry up, this thing is starting to pick up several radio stations already". Coincidentally, three decades later his co-star Lucille Ball went public claiming she could hear radio programs directly in her head when driving near radio transmission towers. She explained that the metal fillings in her teeth detected strong radio signals making them audible to her. MGM hairstylist Sydney Guilaroff dyed Lucille Ball`s hair flame red for this film, the color that she kept for the rest of her life and became her trademark. Marie Blake is in studio records/casting call lists for a role in the movie, but she was not seen. "Du Barry Was a Lady" was adapted from a Broadway show that opened at the 46th Street Theatre on December 6, 1939 and ran for 408 performances. The opening night cast included Bert Lahr as Louis Blore, Ethel Merman as May Daly and Benny Baker, Betty Grable, Janice Carter, Adele Jergens, Tito Renaldo, Kay Sutton and Charles Walters. Much of the `bathroom` humor (Lahr played a bathroom attendant) was not acceptable to the censors and was omitted from the movie. Later, Gypsy Rose Lee was a replacement cast member for Ethel Merman.
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