Lady Be Good

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For the aircraft of this name, see Lady be Good (aircraft).
For the song from the musical 'Lady be Good', see Oh, Lady be Good!..

Lady Be Good is a 1924 Broadway show by George and Ira Gershwin. Later two motion pictures were made of the title, and a World War II combat airplane was named after it.

The show

The Broadway show, Lady, Be Good!, was written by Guy Bolton, Fred Thompson, and the Gershwin Brothers. It is a musical comedy about a brother and his sister who are out of money and each eager to sacrifice him- or herself to help the other. It originally starred brother and sister performers Fred Astaire and Adele Astaire. It ran for 330 performances in the original Broadway run.

1928 film

In 1928 a silent film of Lady Be Good appeared, directed by Richard Wallace.

1941 film

The 1941 Lady Be Good is an MGM musical film starring Eleanor Powell, Ann Sothern, Robert Young, Lionel Barrymore, and Red Skelton. It was directed by Norman Z. McLeod. The film had new music by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein. The film is best known for Powell's show-stopping tap dancing performance to Gershwin's "Fascinating Rhythm". In another notable sequence, Powell does a dance routine with a trained dog. Young and Sothern perform the title song which is "composed" by their two characters.

The story of the film bears no resemblance to the original musical, Lady, Be Good!

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