DuBarry Was a Lady (1939) is a Broadway musical, starring Bert Lahr, Ethel Merman and Betty Grable with music and lyrics by Cole Porter, and the book by Herbert Fields and B.G. DeSylva. The song "Friendship" was one of the highlights. The musical was made into a 1943 Technicolor film starring Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, and Gene Kelly, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
A washroom attendant, Louis Blore, has won a sweepstakes, and subsequently q...
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DuBarry Was a Lady (1939) is a Broadway musical, starring Bert Lahr, Ethel Merman and Betty Grable with music and lyrics by Cole Porter, and the book by Herbert Fields and B.G. DeSylva. The song "Friendship" was one of the highlights. The musical was made into a 1943 Technicolor film starring Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, and Gene Kelly, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
A washroom attendant, Louis Blore, has won a sweepstakes, and subsequently quits his job. He is in love with the nightclub singer May Daly, but she is in love with Alex Barton. Alex is the brother of her friend Alice, who is in love with Harry Norton. Meanwhile, Alex is unhappily married to Ann. Charley, Louis's replacement, suggests that Louis slip Alex a Mickey Finn. While trying to do so, Louis inadvertently drinks the Mickey Finn, falls asleep, and dreams he is King Louis XV of France, and that May is Madame du Barry. In his dream, Charley becomes the Dauphin (later Louis XVI) and Harry becomes the captain of the...
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