Lady Be Good Movie Review 1941

Adapted from the 1924 Gershwin Broadway hit, the plot's been revamped, much to the critics' distaste ("Variety" called it "molasses paced"). Sothern and Young play a tunesmith duo who excel at musical harmony and marital strife. Applauded for its music (the critics loved Hammerstein's and the Gershwins' tunes), the show's Academy Award-winning song was, ironically, written by Jerome Kern. And if that's not enough, levity man Skelton and hoofer Powell are thrown in for good measure.

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Available on VHS
Running time 111 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Musical Comedy, MGM Musicals, Adapted from a Musical

Cast

Eleanor Powell, Ann Sothern, Robert Young, Lionel Barrymore, John Carroll, Red Skelton, Dan Dailey, Virginia O'Brien, Tom Conway, Phil Silvers, Doris Day

Cinematography

George J. Folsey

Director

Norman Z. McLeod

Music

Oscar Hammerstein, George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Jerome Kern, George Bassman

Producer

Arthur Freed, MGM

Awards

Oscars 1941: Song ("The Last Time I Saw Paris").