DuBarry Was a Lady (film)
DuBarry Was a Lady is a 1943 American musical comedy film, starring Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, and Gene Kelly. It is based on the 1939 stage musical of the same name. Shot in Technicolor, the film was directed by Roy Del Ruth and distributed by MetroGoldwynMayer.
The film used very little of the original Cole Porter score. According to TimeOut, this adaptation of the Cole Porter musical ditches most of the songs and the lusty bawdiness that went with them to fashion a vehicle for Skelton and Ball, in the process interpolating more suitable numbers.According to TCM, MGM bought the rights to a popular stage property... then proceeded to make so many changes that its hardly the same show. Much of the Cole Porter score was scrapped for the film version...it retained only a few of the original songs and substituted new material by studio songwriters. The movie also cut out the racier overtones in the musicals story. New characters were added, and many of the original characters names were changed. The basic outline remained the same, although the relationships of some of the characters were different. In the film, Ginny another singer pines away for Louis, who is too infatuated with May Daly to notice, and it is only at the end that he realizes that Ginny loves him. ........
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