![]() ![]() The sequence starts with Kelly crooning "Do I Love You?" to Ball in her dressing room, causing her to confess that she does indeed love him right before Kelly is called onstage to dance to an instrumental of the song with chorus girls. Tired of being a performer, Charles Walters agreed to help Gene Kelly, an acquaintance from Broadway, when he asked him to work on Kelly's first solo for the movies, Du Barry being just his second film musical. MGM thought both properties were ideal for Ann Sothern, but when she turned down Du Barry due to pregnancy, the studio cast Sothern's friend, Lucille Ball. In 1941, RKO wanted the screen rights to make it a vehicle for Ginger Rogers, but MGM won out by also buying the rights to another Porter musical, Panama Hattie. Du Barry was originally a 1939 stage musical by Cole Porter, starring Bert Lahr as Louie and Ethel Merman as May, with Betty Grable and future director Charles Walters in supporting roles. ![]()
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