Du Barry Was a Lady Released Date, Rating, Genre, Cast

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Released Date

August 13, 1943

Distributor

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Genre

Musical

Cast

Lucille Ball, Gene Kelly, Red Skelton, Tommy Dorsey, Zero Mostel, Donald Meek, Virginia O'Brien

1911-1989

Lucille Ball

as May Daly / Madame Du Barry

1912-1996

Gene Kelly

as Alec Howe / Black Arrow

1913-1997

Red Skelton

as Louis Blore / King Louis XV

1905-1956

Tommy Dorsey

as Tommy Dorsey

1915-1977

Zero Mostel

as Rami - the Swami / Taliostra

1878-1946

Donald Meek

as Mr. Jones / Duc de Choiseul

1919-2001

Virginia O'Brien

as Ginny / Du Barry's Companion

About Du Barry Was a Lady

A night club'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.

About

Musical comedy about a singer who wants to marry a rich man. She works with a poor coatroom attendant who accidentally swallows a drugged drink and dreams that he is King Louis XV at Versailles.

Trivia

The film is based on the 1939 Cole Porter stage musical of the same name.