Tags: Musical.
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 attitudes in 1920s Paris with censorship and prohibition in the United States.