Du Barry Was a Lady (1943)
Comedy, Fantasy, Music • 1h 41m
Director: Roy Del Ruth
Cast: Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, Gene Kelly, Virginia O'Brien, Rags Ragland, Zero Mostel, Tommy Dorsey, Donald Meek, Douglass Dumbrille, George Givot, Louise Beavers, Richard Ainley, Grace Albertson, Kay Aldridge, Ernie Alexander, Richard Alexander, Sig Arno, Eleanor Bayley, Hugh Beaumont, Barbara Bedford, Brooks Benedict, Clara Blandick, Hazel Brooks, Pauline Byrne, Jack Byron, James Carlisle, Jack Carrington, Georgia Carroll, Emmett Casey, Willy Castello, Thomas Clarke, Chester Clute, Theo Coffman, Charles Coleman, Edward Cooper, Inez Cooper, Maurice Costello, Earl Covert, Cecil Cunningham, Natalie Draper, Ziggy Elman, William Forrest, Christian J. Frank, Mary Jane French, Ava Gardner, John George, June Glory, Jack Gordon, Dolly Haas, Aileen Haley, Ben Hall, Harry Hayden, Dick Haymes, Dell Henderson, John Huddleston, Delos Jewkes, Charles Judels, Faith Kruger, Mitchell Lewis, Chuck Lowry, Marilyn Maxwell, Claire McDowell, Art Miles, Six Hits and a Miss, Hans Moebus, Buddy Morrow, Sol Murgi, Joyce Murray, Paul Newlan, Ruth Ownbey, Emory Parnell, Paul Power, Sheila Rae, Gene Ramey, Virginia Rees, Mitchell Rhein, Buddy Rich, Cyril Ring, Jo Stafford, Harry Stanton, Andrew Tombes, Lana Turner, Dorothy Tuttle, Michael Visaroff, Pierre Watkin, Allan Watson, Eve Whitney, Kay Williams, Don Wilson, Clark Yocum
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About the film
Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a poor dancer but wants to marry for money. When Louis wins the Irish Sweepstakes, he asks May to marry him and she accepts even though she doesn't love him. Soon after, Louis has an accident and gets knocked on the head, where he dreams that he's King Louis XV pursuing the infamous Madame Du Barry.
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- Du Barry Was a Lady
4K restoration of the original 3D left eye and right eye camera negatives
Directors: Vincente Minnelli & Lemuel Ayers & Roy Del Ruth & George Sidney & Robert Lewis
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Richard Brooks
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Vincent Sherman
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: George Pal
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Compton Bennett
4K restoration from original technicolor negatives
Director: Jack Conway
4K restoration from safety preservation elements
4K restoration from safety preservation elements
Director: Jack Conway
4K restoration from safety preservation elements
More Comedy on Blu-ray
Director: William Dieterle
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Elaine May
Cinématographe 4K Blu-ray > MoC > Olive Films. From nicolas:
The master is good but it’s not that big an upgrade from the Olive Films disc and Vinegar Syndrome’ encode has some blocky highlights. A shame that they didn’t hire David Mackenzie here.
Cinématographe has unnecessary noise gating not present on the previous releases.
Director: Buster Keaton
Kino Lorber new Seven Chances / Sherlock Jr. Blu-ray?
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
MoC 4K Blu-ray late 2027
Lobster Films (Kino Lorber?) > Cohen/Eureka https://slow.pics/c/3KWXoMyR The new Kino Lorber's Seven Chances / Sherlock Jr. might be using the same restoration as Lobster Films
Director: Billy Wilder
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
(transfer of the 1989 MGM LaserDisc, without problems plaguing Kino Lorber's release)
Arrow UHD is an update of the original 4K scan done for their BD. It is also visually far superior to the Kino version and adds Dolby Vision HDR. The Arrow UHD uses a new LD mono capture and has none of the issues or processing found in the Kino UHD which also used an LD mono capture and somehow mucked it up. Short of a brand new scan, the Arrow UHD is as good as it possibly can be.
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