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The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
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Overview
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Writer:
William Anthony McGuire (screenplay)
Release Date:
8 April 1936 (USA)
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Tagline:
10 Big Shows In 1 more
Plot:
This biography follows the ups and downs of Florenz Ziegfeld, famed producer of extravagant stage revues. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
Won 3 Oscars.
Another 1 win
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5 nominations
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(4 articles)
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A Bang for your bucks.
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | William Powell | ... | Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. |
 | Myrna Loy | ... | Billie Burke |
 | Luise Rainer | ... | Anna Held |
| Frank Morgan | ... | Billings |
| Fanny Brice | ... | Fannie Brice (as Fannie Brice) |
| Virginia Bruce | ... | Audrey Dane |
| Reginald Owen | ... | Sampston |
 | Ray Bolger | ... | Ray Bolger |
| Ernest Cossart | ... | Sidney |
| Joseph Cawthorn | ... | Dr. Ziegfeld (as Joseph Cawthorne) |
| Nat Pendleton | ... | Sandow |
| Harriet Hoctor | ... | Harriet Hoctor |
| Jean Chatburn | ... | Mary Lou |
| Paul Irving | ... | Erlanger |
| Herman Bing | ... | Costumer |
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176 min | USA:185 min (roadshow version)
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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USA:Approved (PCA #2000) |
Canada:PG (video rating) |
USA:Passed (National Board of Review) |
Australia:G |
Argentina:Atp |
Finland:S |
UK:U
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The sequence "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" was filmed in two lengthy takes after several weeks of rehearsals and filming (a definite cut is made when moving to a close-up on the singer dressed as Pagliacci, presumably to effect a change of camera position, necessary to start the inexorable move up the huge staircase). It features 180 performers and cost $220,000; 4,300 yards of rayon silk were used for the curtains in the scene.
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Anachronisms: The "A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody" number incorporates snippets of Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue", which was premiered circa 1924, but after its performance Anna Held, who died in 1918, is still portrayed as alive and married to Ziegfeld.
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Quotes:
Hotel doorman:
Do you realize you gave me five pounds?
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.: Yes, I'm trying to lose weight.
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Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.: Yes, I'm trying to lose weight.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in "Broadway: The American Musical" (2004)
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Soundtrack:
Twenty Gallons of Milk
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Boy, is this movie long......but worth it for the most part. William Powell is, as usual, his urbane, sophisticated self in a romanticized portrayal of Florenz Ziegfeld. Myrna Loy,leaving behind her wisecracking Nora Charles persona, does a fair job as Billie Burke. Burke, whose movie career was based on dithering, silly women, was once a beauty who graced the Follies. Loy doesn't come across as either but she has never given a bad performance so she is believable. But Louise Rainer as Anna Held is the one to watch here. A beautiful doll-like creature, she enchants you with her performance. The famous telephone scene may be overrated somewhat but it worked for me....and obviously for the Academy...it garnered her an Oscar. The music is so wonderful and the "Pretty Girl is Like a Melody" with Dennis Morgan is eye candy. One glaring fault is that there is a very short sequence with the great Fanny Brice in which she is singing "My Man" ( probably one of the greatest torch songs of all times) and it is just cut-off in mid warble as the story goes on to another scene. An unforgivable sin!! There could have been a little less talk and a little more singing/dancing in the movie but since it is a biography and not primarily a musical, all, except for the Brice faux pas, is forgiven!