The run closed March 20, 1943
- Opened
- October 29, 1941
- Closed
- March 20, 1943
- Performances
- 547
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Imperial Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 45th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it77 named
Billie Dee
George Deming
Helen Devlin
Margie Evans
George Florence
Miriam Franklin
Joel Friend
Frank Ghegan
Tommy Gleason and His Royal Guards
Marion Harvey
Randolph Hughes
Kalita Humphreys
Janice Joyce
Fred Irving Lewis
Pat Likely
Peggy Littlejohn
Mickey Moore
Betty Moran
Fred Nay
Sunnie O Dea
Mary Parker
Mary Ann Parker
Dale Priest
Marilynn Randels
Houston Richards
Jack Riley
Renee Russell
Lisa Rutherford
Jean Scott
Zynaid Spencer
James Todd
Jean Trybom
Edith Turgell
Vivian Vance
Mary Jane Walsh
Beverly Whitney
Frances Williams
Jack Williams
Jack Baker
Dorothy Bennett
Muriel Brunzell
Kay Buckley
Gene Cooke
Fred Deming
Robert Evans
Jose Ferrer
Betty Gilpatrick
Carol Goodner
Edward Hackett
Butler Hixson
Peggy Ann Holmes
June Melville
May Muth
Don O Keefe
Mary Lou Reed
Phil Shaw
Frances Tanner
Gordon West
Joe Wismak
26 of these 77 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 51 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Director
- Edgar MacGregor
- Choreographer
- Charles Walters
- Producer
- Vinton Freedley
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Around this production
Let's Face It! is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. The book by Herbert and Dorothy Fields is based on the 1925 play The Cradle Snatchers by Russell Medcraft and Norma Mitchell. The 1941 Broadway and 1942 West End productions were successful, and a film version was released in 1943.
On Broadway the show consolidated Danny Kaye’s reputation after playing Lady in the Dark, and then Kaye ignored the American musical for thirty years until manhandling Richard Rodgers’ ‘Noah’ musical Two by Two. West End Broadway the Golden Age of the American Musical In London Adrian Wright, p. 26
- Their first project as a team was Porter’s Let’s Face It! (10/29/41; 547 performances), a wartime musical with Eve Arden, Danny Kaye, Nanette Fabray, Mary Jane Walsh, and Vivian Vance. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 189
- Let’s Face It! (10/29/41; 547 performances) was another Cole Porter vehicle to play the Imperial. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 278
- In 1941, with the production of Let’s Face It!, Herbert began collaborating with his sister, Dorothy, and the high point of their eight shows together was Annie Get Your Gun. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 21
- Nanette Fabray made early appearances in the revue Meet the People, singing that old chestnut “Hurdy Gurdy Verdi,” and as the youngest member of female contingent Eve Arden, Vivian Vance, and Edith Meiser in Let’s Face It. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 57
- After the hits Cabin in the Sky and Let’s Face It!, his last three offerings were failures, and Freedley left Broadway for good in 1950. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 126
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for Let’s Face It at all.
- No show page for Let’s Face It. The work is here as a title and a year, and nothing more has been gathered about it.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.