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The Great Ziegfeld

The Great Ziegfeld

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Summary

Biographical drama starring William Powell and Luise Rainer. Colourful showbusiness impresario Florenz Ziegfeld makes his first fortune in Chicago but then loses it on a trip to Monte Carlo where he meets his first wife, Anna Held.

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Review

A star rating of 4 out of 5.

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.

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6.6/10

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Cast

rolenameFlorenz ZiegfeldWilliam PowellAnna HeldLuise RainerBillie BurkeMyrna LoyBillingsFrank MorganSampstonReginald OwenSandowNat PendletonAudrey LaneVirginia BruceSidneyErnest CossartJoeRobert GreigSageRaymond Walburn

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Crew

rolenameDirectorRobert Z Leonard

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Theatrical distributor

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Languages

English

Available on

DVD

Formats

Black and white

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