Shows · Du Barry Was a Lady · 46th Street Theatre, 1939
Du Barry Was a Lady, 1939
Opened December 6, 1939
Closed December 12, 1940
408 performances
Original
Broadway
Of the productions that opened in the 1930s, this had the 23rd longest run.
Other stagings of Du Barry Was a Lady 3 more
Who was in it65 named
Betty Allen
Gloria Arden
Walter Armin
Gene Ashley
Johnny Barnes
Helen Bennett
Evelyn Bonefine
Boris Butleroff
Hugh Cameron
Janice Carter
Virginia Cheneval
Stella Clauson
Harold Cromer
Mary Daniels
Jacqueline Franc
Joel Friend
Ronda Gale
Russell Georgiev
Anne Graham
Stanley Grill
Marion Harvey
Douglas Hawkins
Peter Holliday
Beverly Hosier
Dorothea Jackson
Adele Jergens
Mel Kacher
Patricia Knight
Nancy Knott
Frances Krell
Don Liberto
Gloria Martin
Jean Moorehead
Carl Nicholas
Audrey Palmer
Barbara Pond
Tito Renaldo
Roy Ross
David Shelly
Geraldine Spreckels
Jane Sproule
Jack Stanton
Paul Thorne
Edith Turgell
Lewis Turner
Marie Vannemen
Arlyne Varden
William Vaux
Nina Wayler
Bill Broder
Robert Herring
Billy Taft
Rose Tyrrell
Creative team
- Director
- Edgar MacGregor
- Choreographer
- Robert Alton
Around this production
Du Barry Was a Lady is a Broadway musical, with music and lyrics by Cole Porter, and the book by Herbert Fields and Buddy DeSylva. The musical starred Bert Lahr, Ethel Merman and Betty Grable, and the song "Friendship" was one of the highlights. The musical was made into the 1943 Technicolor film Du Barry Was a Lady, starring Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, Gene Kelly, and Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra.
Cole Porter composing as he reclines on a couch in the Ritz Hotel during out-of-town tryouts for Du Barry Was a Lady (1939). George Karger / Getty Images. The Letters of Cole Porter Cole Porter Editor Cliff Eisen Editor Dominic Mchugh , p. 6
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