LADY BE GOOD

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CREDITS

1941, 111 minutes, B&W.
Producer, Arthur Freed; Director, Norman Z. McLeod; Screenplay, Jack McGowan, Kay Van Riper and John McClain; Cinematography, George Folsey and Oliver T. Marsh; Music Direction, George Stoll; Choreography, Busby Berkeley.

CAST

Marilyn Marsh, Eleanor Powell; Dixie Donegan, Ann Sothern; Eddie Crane, Robert Young; Judge Murdock, Lionel Barrymore; Buddy Crawford, John Carroll; Red Willet, Red Skelton; Lull, Virginia O'Brien; Mr. Blanton, Tom Conway; Bill Pattison, Dan Dailey Jr.; Max Milton, Reginald Owen.

SONGS

Lady Be Good; Fascinatin' Rhythm by George and Ira Gershwin; The Last Time I Saw Paris by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II; Your Words And My Music by Roger Edens and Arthur Freed; You'll Never Know by Edens.

PLOT SYNOPSIS

". . .about a pair of songwriters (Sothern and Young) who split up after composer Young allows success to go to his head. They are re-united, but acrimony will out, and once again they part. Remorseful of his behavior, Young begs Sothern to take him back yet again and, if only to ensure a happy ending, she does."
- Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical

NOTES

"Lady Be Good was a curate's egg of a show. It had five excellent songs, a wham-bang finale. . .yet, whenever the music stopped, the movie was quite asphyxiatingly boring."
- Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical

"A molasses-paced picture that extravagantly wastes talent and time. . .poor direction, unimaginative storytelling, and slipshod photography."
- Variety

ACADEMY AWARD WINNER:
Song - "The Last Time I Saw Paris"

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