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The Great Ziegfeld
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Directed by	Robert Z. Leonard
Produced by	Hunt Stromberg
Written by	William Anthony McGuire
Starring	William Powell Myrna Loy Luise Rainer
Music by	Walter Donaldson
Distributed by	MGM
Release date(s)	April 8, 1936 (USA)
Running time	185 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
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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.

William Powell as Flo Ziegfeld

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.

1 Cast
2 Awards
3 References
4 External links

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: ¹

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:

References

^ "NY Times: The Great Ziegfeld". NY Times. Retrieved on 2008-12-08.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: The Great Ziegfeld

The Great Ziegfeld at the Internet Movie Database

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Mutiny on the Bounty	Academy Award for Best Picture 1936	Succeeded by The Life of Emile Zola

v • d • e The films of Robert Z. Leonard

1910s	The Silent Command • Heritage • Judge Not; or The Woman of Mona Diggings • Secret Love • The Crippled Hand • The Love Girl • Little Eve Edgarton • The Plow Girl • The Eagle's Wing (with Rufus Steele) • On Record • A Mormon Maid • The Primrose Ring • At First Sight • Princess Virtue • Face Value • The Bride's Awakening • Her Body in Bond • Modern Love • Danger, Go Slow • The Scarlet Shadow • The Delicious Little Devil • What Am I Bid? • Big Little Person • The Way of a Woman • The Miracle of Love

1920s	Stronger Than Death (with Herbert Blaché and Charles Bryant) • April Folly • The Restless Sex (with Leon D'Usseau) • The Gilded Lily • Heedless Moths • Peacock Alley • Fascination • Broadway Rose • Jazzmania • The French Doll • Fashion Row • Mademoiselle Midnight • Circe, the Enchantress • Love's Wilderness • Cheaper to Marry • Time, the Comedian • Bright Lights • Dance Madness • Mademoiselle Modiste • The Waning Sex • A Little Journey • The Demi-Bride • Adam and Evil • Tea for Three • The Five O'Clock Girl • Baby Mine • The Cardboard Lover • A Lady of Chance • Marianne • Marianne

1930s	The Divorcee • In Gay Madrid • Let Us Be Gay • The Bachelor Father • It's a Wise Child • Five and Ten • Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) • Lovers Courageous • Strange Interlude • Peg o' My Heart • Dancing Lady • Outcast Lady • After Office Hours • Naughty Marietta (with W. S. Van Dyke) • Escapade • The Great Ziegfeld • Piccadilly Jim • Maytime • The Firefly • The Girl of the Golden West • Broadway Serenade

1940s	New Moon • Pride and Prejudice • Third Finger, Left Hand • Ziegfeld Girl • When Ladies Meet • We Were Dancing • Stand by for Action • The Man from Down Under • Marriage Is a Private Affair • Week-End at the Waldorf • The Secret Heart • Cynthia • B.F.'s Daughter • The Bribe

1950s	In the Good Old Summertime • Nancy Goes to Rio • Duchess of Idaho • Grounds for Marriage • Too Young to Kiss • Everything I Have Is Yours • The Great Diamond Robbery • The Clown • Her Twelve Men • The King's Thief • The World's Most Beautiful Woman • Kelly and Me

Serials	The Master Key (1914)

Productions	Peacock Alley (1930)

Academy Award for Best Picture

Wings / Sunrise (1928) · The Broadway Melody (1929) · All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) · Cimarron (1931) · Grand Hotel (1932) · Cavalcade (1933) · It Happened One Night (1934) · Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) · The Great Ziegfeld (1936) · The Life of Emile Zola (1937) · You Can't Take It with You (1938) · Gone with the Wind (1939) · Rebecca (1940)

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