The Great Ziegfeld

The Great Ziegfeld

Infobox Film | name = The Great Ziegfeld


caption = original movie poster
director = Robert Z. Leonard
producer = Hunt Stromberg
writer = William Anthony McGuire
starring = William Powell
Myrna Loy
Luise Rainer
music = Walter Donaldson
cinematography =
editing =
distributor = MGM
released = April 8, 1936 (USA)
runtime = 185 min.
language = English
country = USA
budget =
amg_id = 1:20813
imdb_id = 0027698

"The Great Ziegfeld" (1936) is a musical film produced by MGM. Although Florenz Ziegfeld provides the connecting thread for the movie, it's really meant to showcase a series of spectacular musical productions. The film includes original music by Walter Donaldson and Irving Berlin. Berlin's work was featured in the "Ziegfeld Follies" of 1918, 1919, and 1920. Featured in the film are William Powell (as Ziegfeld), Myrna Loy (as Billie Burke), Luise Rainer (as Anna Held), Nat Pendleton (as Eugen Sandow), Frank Morgan and Virginia Bruce. Ziegfeld performers Fanny Brice and Ray Bolger play themselves. Dennis Morgan, in an uncredited role, performed "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" (dubbed by Allan Jones).

"The Great Ziegfeld" takes many key liberties with Ziegfeld's life and with the history of the "Follies". For instance, George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" was never featured in the "Follies", and the number "Pretty Girl" was written for the 1919 "Follies", not the first edition of the revue, as shown in the film.

Cast

*William Powell as Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr.
*Myrna Loy as Billie Burke
*Luise Rainer as Anna Held
*Frank Morgan as Jack Billings
*Fanny Brice as Herself
*Virginia Bruce as Audrey Dane
*Ray Bolger as Himself
*Nat Pendleton as Eugen Sandow

*Also appearing uncredited is future First Lady Pat Nixon (as a Ziegfeld Girl).

Awards

The movie won three Oscars:
*Academy Award for Best Picture - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (Hunt Stromberg, producer)
*Academy Award for Best Actress - Luise Rainer
*Academy Award for Best Dance Direction - Seymour Felix - For "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody".

It was nominated for an additional four:
*Academy Award for Best Art Direction - Cedric Gibbons, Eddie Imazu and Edwin B. Willis
*Academy Award for Directing - Robert Z. Leonard
*Academy Award for Film Editing - William S. Gray
*Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay - William Anthony McGuire

External links

*imdb title|id=0027698|title=The Great Ziegfeld

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