Shows · Let’s Face It
Producer Vinton Freedley got the idea for Let’s Face It! while reading a newspaper account about a number of patriotic women who were so anxious to help the morale of World War II soldiers that they wrote to army camps requesting permission to entertain servicemen in their homes. Using a 1925 Broadway hit, The Cradle Snatchers, as foundation, the script by Herbert and Dorothy Fields was about three Southampton matron…
- Opened
- 1941
- Performances
- 547
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Early
Productions2 on Broadway
| 1941 | Imperial Theatre Original. October 29, 1941 · Edgar MacGregor | 547 performances |
| 1942 | West End Transfer. |
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29 passages naming Let’s Face It, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
Their first project as a team was Porter’s Let’s Face It! (10/29/41; 547 performances), a wartime musical with Eve Arden, Danny Kaye, Nanette Fabray, Mary Jane Walsh, and Vivian Vance. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p189
Let’s Face It! (10/29/41; 547 performances) was another Cole Porter vehicle to play the Imperial. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p278
In 1941, with the production of Let’s Face It!, Herbert began collaborating with his sister, Dorothy, and the high point of their eight shows together was Annie Get Your Gun. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p21
Nanette Fabray made early appearances in the revue Meet the People, singing that old chestnut “Hurdy Gurdy Verdi,” and as the youngest member of female contingent Eve Arden, Vivian Vance, and Edith Meiser in Let’s Face It. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p57
After the hits Cabin in the Sky and Let’s Face It!, his last three offerings were failures, and Freedley left Broadway for good in 1950. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p126
His first starring role, alongside other rising stars Vivian Vance, Nanette Fabray, and Eve Arden in Let’s Face It, catapulted him to a thirty-year stay in Hollywood. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p191
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