The run closed January 6, 1951
- Opened
- October 5, 1950
- Closed
- January 6, 1951
- Performances
- 100
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Broadway Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 218th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it56 named
Patricia Denise
Cecile Descant
Phil Gerard
Felice Ingersoll
Sandra Insel
June Johnson
Jackson Jourdan
Billy Kay
The Konyots
Bunny Lane
Diana Laye
Les Huit Chanteuses
Orlando Merdene
M Millard
Jack Monts
J C Olsen
Helene Perry
Christine Petersen
Joan Rodgers
Robert Rossellat
Millicent Roy
Stacey Scott
Bill Shirley
Six Mighty Atoms
Harry Snow
Sally Sorvo
June St Clair
Helene Stanley
Gloria Stone
Phillip Terry
Helen L Thompson
George Tomal
Brahm van Den Berg
Nina Varela
Joy Walker
Carolyn Wells
Richard Wyatt
George Zoritch
19 of these 56 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 37 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
- Uncredited
- Choreographer
- Ernst, Maria Matray
- Producer
- Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson
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
- Dance Me a Song , the shortest-running revue of the lot, included three ballads that later enjoyed a certain amount of currency among cabaret singers and recording artists: “Lilac Wine,” the delicate yet torchy “I’m the Girl,” and “One Is a Lonely Number” (the latter’s lyric was written by Maurice Valency, who is best… Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 21
- Pardon Our French was perhaps a bit more sedate than their earlier ventures. True, an avalanche of feathers was dropped from the ceiling of the Broadway Theatre, to the consternation of many unlucky ticketholders (who, according to Robert Coleman in the Daily Mirror , “fled under the balcony for protection”), and an ac… Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 79
- Despite its large cast and lavish production values (and a huge initial investment of $230,000), Bless You All was yet another in the parade of the era’s luckless revues, and like Alive and Kicking , Dance Me a Song , Tickets, Please! , Michael Todd’s Peep Show , and Pardon Our French , it soon disappeared. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 105
- Pardon Our Antenna was Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson’s alleged salute to television, but the lampoon never got beyond its Chicago tryout. The halcyon days of Hellzapoppin’ and Sons o’ Fun and even Laffing Room Only were long gone for the comedy team of Olsen and Johnson (for more information about their revues, see Pardon… Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 489
- Olsen and Johnson of Hellzapoppin and other zany revues tried a new one out here called Pardon Our French in 1950, but even with French beauty Denise Darcel in the show it managed to run for only 100 performances. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 209
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 Pardon Our French at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.