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Sunday Musical: Du Barry Was a Lady

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

continues a short season of films for all the family.
Today starring Red Skelton Lucille Ball , Gene Kelly
Night-club singer May Daly Is determined to marry for money, and she has plenty of offers from her millionaire admirers. There are also plenty of less well-off suitors - among them composer Alec Howe whom she loves -just to complicate her life. Naturally, all ends happily in this song-filled screen version of the Broadway show, which features a sumptuous fantasy sequence in the Court of Louis XV.
Screenplay by IRVING BRECHNER Produced by ARTHUR FREED Directed by ROY DEL RUTH
(First showing on British television) Films, page 25

Contributors

Unknown:
Red Skelton
Unknown:
Lucille Ball
Unknown:
Gene Kelly
Unknown:
Alec Howe
Play By:
Irving Brechner
Produced By:
Arthur Freed
Directed By:
Roy Del Ruth
Louis Blore:
Red Skelton
King Louis:
Skelton
May Daly:
Lucille Ball
Mme Du Barry:
Lucille Ball
Alec Howe Black Arrow:
Gene Kelly
Ginny:
Virginia O'Brien
Charlie:
'Rags' Ragland
Rami, the Swami Taliostra:
Zero Mostel
Due de Choiseul:
Donald Meek
Source: Radio Times

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