Du Barry Was a Lady (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is the Hollywood version of Songwriter Cole Porter's tuneful Broadway dream about the Court of Louis XV. The Broadway dream was lively enough to wake anybody up. The Hollywood dream is all too easy to sleep through. Broadway offered the team of Bert Lahr, Ethel Merman and Betty Grable, with a good grade of gents'-room humor. Hollywood substitutes Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, and Virginia O'Brien, with vulgarity from the lesser lavatories.
There is much fine Technicolor and court pouf-pouf. But pretty Lucille Ball needs a voice; Cabaret Comedian...
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