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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 attitudes in 1920s Paris with censorship and prohibition in the United States. The musical's plot is consistent with the standard boy-meets-girl plots of musical comedies of the first half of the twentieth century.
1929 Broadway
Fifty Million Frenchmen the Musical Songs with Lyrics
Act 1
1. A Toast to Volstead
2. You Do Something to Me
3. The American Express
4. You've Got That Thing
5. Find Me a Primitive Man
6. Where Would You Get Your Coat?
7. Do You Want to See Paris?
8. At Longchamps Today
9. Yankee Doodle
10. The (Happy) Heaven of Harlem
11. Why Shouldn't I Have You?
Act 2
1. Somebody's Going to Throw a Big Party
2. It Isn't Done
3. I'm In Love
4. The Tale of the Oyster
5. Paree, What Did You Do to Me?
6. You Don't Know Paree
7. I'm Unlucky at Gambling
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
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