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- The title is a reference to the hit 1927 song "Fifty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong" by Willie Raskin, Billy Rose, and Fred Fisher, which compared free attitudes in 1920s Paris with censorship and prohibition in the United States.
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Fifty Million Frenchmen is a musical comedy with a book by Herbert Fields and music and lyrics by Cole Porter. It opened on Broadway in 1929 and was adapted for a film two years later. The title is a reference to the hit 1927 song "Fifty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong" by Willie Raskin, Billy Rose , and Fred Fisher , which compared free ...
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Sep 22, 2006 · And though I couldn't quote you the exact conditions under which he write the book for Cole Porter's 1929 hit, Fifty Million Frenchmen, when a score has one song about procreating animals and...
Aug 17, 2020 · The logic that “fifty million Frenchmen can’t be wrong” is a primitive version of “vote counting” to assess the scholarly literature. In vote counting, a person examines all the studies about a topic and tallies up the number that support a theory and the number that contradict a theory.
Oct 1, 2019 · Five years before Anything Goes, and one month after the stock market crash of 1929, Cole Porter’s Fifty Million Frenchmen arrived on Broadway in full glory, boasting a cast of nearly 100. It ran an impressive 254 performances.
Mar 14, 2008 · The 1927 song 'Fifty-million Frenchmen can't be wrong' alluded to the comparatively free and easy attitude to drinking in France. The number of Frenchmen seems to vary whenever the phrase reappears.
Nov 11, 2016 · A hit song in 1927, “Fifty Million Frenchmen Can’t Be Wrong” compared the free attitudes in 1920s Paris with censorship and prohibition in the United States. Two years later a Broadway musical...
