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The Great Ziegfeld
Robert Z Leonard
(1936)
168min
U Certificate
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Review
Our Score
by
Tony Sloman
This sumptuously mounted MGM musical biography of Broadway's most flamboyant showman is perhaps slightly too long for today's tastes, but it thrilled cinema-goers at the time and won the best film Oscar. Luise Rainer also won the first of two successive Academy Awards as best actress for her performance here as Ziegfeld's wife, Anna Held (she won the following year for
The Good Earth
), and her famous telephone scene is a lesson in screen acting. Suave William Powell is the Great Flo, and he reprised the role eight years later in
Ziegfeld Follies
. A real treat - just catch those girls descending that staircase to
A Pretty Girl Is like a Melody
.
Summary
Flo Ziegfeld's midway attraction isn't drawing flies. "How's business, Ziggy?" a rival taunts. This winner of three Academy Awards including Best Picture provides the career-chronicling answer. Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.'s business was good (with Broadway's legendary Follies and more), bad (including times the showman could scarcely rub two nickels together) and rarely lacking optimistic excess.
Cast & Crew
Florenz Ziegfeld
William Powell
Anna Held
Luise Rainer
Billie Burke
Myrna Loy
Billings
Frank Morgan
Sampston
Reginald Owen
Sandow
Nat Pendleton
Audrey Lane
Virginia Bruce
Sidney
Ernest Cossart
Joe
Robert Greig
Sage
Raymond Walburn
Director
Robert Z Leonard
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Other Information
Language:
English
Black and white
Theatrical distributor:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Available on:
DVD
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