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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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Jeez Luise
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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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Eugen Sandow is portrayed as a typically "dumb strongman". In real life, however, Sandow was highly intelligent and a superb businessman. Because he was among the first men to display his muscular body as a "work of art", he was considered to be the "Father of Bodybuilding" and this is what his gravestone reads today. Among his friends were Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas A. Edison (who filmed him at the Black Maria Studios) and even King Edward VII. Sandow's career became bigger than ever after his association with Ziegfeld. He became very wealthy and famous because of his mail-order businesses, gyms, souvenir photographs, books and personal appearances. There is a mountain in Alaska, a railroad and a small town in Texas (near Austin) named after him.
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Continuity: During the circus number, each dog moves forward into a box painted on the floor of the stage. The second dog from the right moves forward out of the box, then is seen back in the box in the next shot.
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Quotes:
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.:
[after he has hired Jack Billings' valet away from him] Gentlemen never argue about gentlemen's gentlemen.
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Referenced in Ziegfeld on Film (2004) (V)
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Before anybody goes on for one minute more about how brilliant Luise Rainer is as Anna Held, let's remember that she took the Oscar from Garbo's Camille. I mean, come on. Rainer is pretty and her instincts are right, and her famous "telephone scene" expertly employs the old smiling-through-tears device. But it's hardly as challenging a role as Marguerite, and Rainer's undeniable Continental charm can go only so far.
The movie itself is a corker. William Anthony McGuire's screenplay is far above average for this musical-biography genre; it's full of smart wisecracks, and while it heavily fictionalizes Ziegfeld's life and persona (it makes him much more suave and irresistible than he was), it gets the big things right: his invention of the big musical revue, his obsession with glorifying the American girl, his unparalleled showmanship and eye for talent.
Speaking of talent, you get a full, uninterrupted, great Ray Bolger number, several clever and lavish production numbers, and a snippet of Fanny Brice (but cutting away from her "My Man" is unforgivable). The actors playing Eddie Cantor and Will Rogers are amusingly terrible. And Virginia Bruce is memorably nasty as a temperamental showgirl.
The Academy named this Best Picture of 1936. And you know, it probably was.