Ziegfeld Follies (1945)
August 26, 1945Release Date
Ziegfeld Follies (1945)
August 26, 1945Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Lucille Ball
Lucille Ball
Fred Astaire
Various characters
Lucille Bremer
Princess
Fanny Brice
Norma Edelman (segment A Sweepstakes Ticket)
Judy Garland
Star (segment A Great Lady Has An Interview)
Kathryn Grayson
Kathryn Grayson
Lena Horne
Lena Horne
Gene Kelly
Gentleman (segment The Babbit and the Bromide)
James Melton
Alfredo
Victor Moore
Lawyer's Client (segment Pay the Two Dollars)
Red Skelton
J. Newton Numbskull (segment When Television Comes)
William Powell
Flo Ziegfeld
Edward Arnold
Lawyer (segment Pay the Two Dollars)
Marion Bell
Violetta
Cyd Charisse
Ballerina
Esther Williams
Esther Williams (segment A Water Ballet)
Virginia O'Brien
Virginia O'Brien (segment Here's to the Ladies)
Hume Cronyn
Monty Edelman (segment A Sweepstakes Ticket)
William Frawley
Mr. Martin (segment A Sweepstakes Ticket)
Robert Lewis
Chinese Gentleman (segment Limehouse Blues) / Telephone Voice (segment Number Please) / Director
Keenan Wynn
Caller (segment Number Please)
Eve Whitney
Ziegfeld Girl (uncredited)
Noreen Nash
Ziegfeld Girl (uncredited)
Albert Akst
Editor
Vincente Minnelli
Director
Charles Rosher
Director of Photography
Arthur Freed
Producer / Lyricist
Roy Del Ruth
Director
George Sidney
Director
Lemuel Ayers
Director
Merrill Pye
Art Direction
Edwin B. Willis
Set Decoration
Al Shenberg
Assistant Director
George J. Folsey
Director of Photography
Cedric Gibbons
Art Direction
Jack Greenwood
Assistant Director
Jack Martin Smith
Art Direction
Helen Rose
Costume Design
Jack Dawn
Makeup Artist
Sydney Guilaroff
Hairstylist
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Ziegfeld Follies is a 1945 American musical comedy film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, primarily directed by Vincente Minnelli, with segments directed by Lemuel Ayers, Roy Del Ruth, Robert Lewis, and George Sidney, the film's original director before Minnelli took over. Other directors that are claimed to have made uncredited contributions to the film are Merrill Pye, Norman Taurog, and Charles Walters. It stars many MGM leading talents, including Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Lucille Bremer, Fanny Brice (the only member of the ensemble who was a star of the original Follies), Judy Garland, Kathryn Grayson, Lena Horne, Gene Kelly, James Melton, Victor Moore, William Powell, Red Skelton, and Esther Williams.
Producer Arthur Freed wanted to create a film along the lines of the Ziegfeld Follies Broadway shows, and so, the film is composed of a sequence of unrelated lavish musical numbers and comedy sketches. Some of them, such as Pay the Two Dollars, originated in George White's Scandals. Filmed in 1944 and 1945, it was released in 1946 to considerable critical and box-office success.
The film was entered into the 1947 Cannes Film Festival.