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Auction History Result 4s399 DU BARRY WAS A LADY style D 1sh 1943 best different sexy art of Lucille Ball & showgirls! Date Sold 3/4/2018 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Style D One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27 1/4" x 41 1/4" [69 x 105 cm]) (Learn More) Du Barry Was a Lady, the 1943 Roy Del Ruth romantic love triangle musical comedy ("The musical extravaganza in Technicolor that tops 'Great Ziegfeld' glory!"; loosely based on a Cole Porter Broadway musical, but it had to be heavily censored to be made into a movie; about a coatroom attendant who dreams he is back in 18th century France, chasing after the showgirl he loves in real life!) starring Red Skelton (as King Louis XV), Lucille Ball (in the title role as Madame Du Barry), Gene Kelly, Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Virginia O'Brien, 'Rags' Ragland, Zero Mostel (in his first movie role!), and Don Wilson. Note that this movie paired the greatest male and female TV slapstick comedians, Red Skelton and Lucille Ball! Note that there is a sequence in this movie with the "I Love a Vargas Girl" musical number with Red Skelton. MGM had famed pin-up artist Alberto Vargas pick out twelve beautiful models to each be a "month" in the above number, and Clarence Sinclair Bull photographed them against calendar backgrounds for each month. One of those twelve models was Hazel Brooks, who went on to a successful film career, but not as much for the other eleven! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this poster, which has wonderful different sexy art of Lucy, is extremely rare (we have only had it twice before and the last time was in 2015). We know that MGM hired great artists to do work on this movie (Shermund did the other style one-sheet, and Alberto Vargas did an extremely sexy trade ad), but we don't know who did this artwork, which is especially unusual for MGM, because it has a full color background, instead of the white background that they were so fond of throughout the 1930s and 1940s! If anyone knows more about this poster, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Condition: fair. There is light rippling and discoloration throughout the poster from exposure to moisture (much more so in the lower quarter of the poster). There are substantial creases, defects, areas of paper loss and tears of varying lengths along parts of some edges (once repaired with tape from the back which has left behind some tape staining). The poster is in urgent need of restoration, and certainly a competent restorer could repair the defects described above, but please bear in mind the cost of restoration before placing a bid. Learn More about condition grades 
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