A Winsome Widow is a 1912 musical produced by Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr., which was a revised version of Charles Hale Hoyt's 1891 hit, A Trip to Chinatown, with a score by Raymond Hubbell.
The show debuted at the Moulin Rouge on April 11, 1912, and ran into September, with a total of 172 performances.
[3] One of its featured songs was "Be My Little Baby Bumble Bee" by Stanley Murphy and Henry I. Marshall.
[4] The large cast featured Emmy Wehlen, Leon Errol, the Dolly Sisters, Elizabeth Brice, Frank Tinney, and Charles King.
The New York Clipper called it "a spectacle of gayety and gorgeousness", but The New York Times was bored of its "sameness", and critic Sime Silverman of Variety said it was "at least forty minutes too long, draggy with superfluous people.