This was the first Broadway collaboration of the Gershwin brothers, and the Astaire siblings play a brother-sister dance team.

Lady, Be Good premiered on Broadway at the Liberty Theatre on December 1, 1924 and closed on September 12, 1925, after 330 performances.

The musical opened in the West End at the Empire Theatre on April 14, 1926, again starring Fred and Adele Astaire.

[citation needed] Setting: Beacon Hill, Rhode Island and Eastern Harbor, Connecticut The brother/sister dance team of Dick and Susie Trevor are so broke that they can't pay the rent and have been evicted from their childhood home.

In the end, Dick and Shirley are reunited, Jack saves Susie from disgrace by declaring his love, and Jo and Watty pair off happily.

The latter film, starring Eleanor Powell, uses only the title number, "Oh, Lady Be Good!," and "Fascinating Rhythm" from the musical.

[3] The show title was used on an American B-24D Liberator bomber that flew for the United States Army Air Forces during World War II out of North Africa.