DuBarry Was a Lady (DVD)

Hapless nightclub hatcheck boy Red Skelton loves glamorous chanteuse Lucille Ball. Handsome hoofer Gene Kelly loves her too. And Lucy? Lucy loves money. Then Red mistakenly gulps down a Mickey Finn and dreams he's in 18th-century France. Before you can powder your wig, a throng of suitors - Red, Gene, King Louis XV, a dashing rebel, a sinister duke and just about everybody - loves Lucy! This glittery, tune-filled bonbon features a supporting cast of wags and wits (including the inimitable Zero Mostel) and three Cole Porter songs from the original Broadway smash: "Friendship," "Katie Went to Haiti" and "Do I Love You?" Cherchez la Lucy for comedy, music and star power from Hollywood's golden era.

Starring: Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, Gene Kelly, "Rags" Ragland, Zero Mostel, Donald Meek, Douglass Dumbrille, George Givot, Louise Beavers, Tommy Dorsey, Ziggy Elman, Dick Haymes, Six Hits and a Miss, Music Maids, Jack Byron, Paul Newlan, Art Miles, Dick Alexander, Earl Covert, J. D. Jewkes, Harry Stanton, Marie Blake, Faith Kruger, Allan Watson, Charles Coleman, Cecil Cunningham, Harry Hayden, Clara Blandick, Andrew Tombes, Kay Aldridge, Pierre Watkin, Don Wilson, Sig Arno, Ernie Alexander, Hugh Beaumont, William Forrest, Charles Judels, Chester Clute, Michael Visaroff, Mary Jane French, William Costello, Dell Henderson, Edward Cooper, Natalie Draper, Inez Cooper, Eve Whitney, Emory Parnell, Mitchell Lewis, Marilyn Maxwell, Hazel Brooks, Georgia Carroll

Director: Arthur Freed

Rating: NR