The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
April 8, 1936Release Date
The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
April 8, 1936Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
![William Powell](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/4561-william-powell.webp)
William Powell
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.
![Myrna Loy](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/4562-myrna-loy.webp)
Myrna Loy
Billie Burke
![Luise Rainer](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/24293-luise-rainer.webp)
Luise Rainer
Anna Held
![Frank Morgan](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/22740-frank-morgan.webp)
Frank Morgan
Billings
![Fanny Brice](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/75344-fanny-brice.webp)
Fanny Brice
Fannie Brice
![Virginia Bruce](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/6034-virginia-bruce.webp)
Virginia Bruce
Audrey Dane
![Reginald Owen](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/10268-reginald-owen.webp)
Reginald Owen
Sampston
![Ray Bolger](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/24206-ray-bolger.webp)
Ray Bolger
Ray Bolger
![Ernest Cossart](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/75312-ernest-cossart.webp)
Ernest Cossart
Sidney
![Joseph Cawthorn](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/57381-joseph-cawthorn.webp)
Joseph Cawthorn
Dr. Ziegfeld
![Nat Pendleton](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/4605-nat-pendleton.webp)
Nat Pendleton
Sandow
![Robert Z. Leonard](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/32750-robert-z-leonard.webp)
Robert Z. Leonard
Director
![Dennis Morgan](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/24237-dennis-morgan.webp)
Dennis Morgan
Stage Singer in 'Pretty Girl' Number
![William Anthony McGuire](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
William Anthony McGuire
Writer
![Marcelle Corday](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/49090-marcelle-corday.webp)
Marcelle Corday
Marie
![Hunt Stromberg](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/127411-hunt-stromberg.webp)
Hunt Stromberg
Producer
![Robert Greig](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/27246-robert-greig.webp)
Robert Greig
Ziegfeld's Butler (uncredited)
![Harriet Hoctor](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/75316-harriet-hoctor.webp)
Harriet Hoctor
Herself
![Oliver T. Marsh](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Oliver T. Marsh
Cinematographer
![William S. Gray](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
William S. Gray
Editor
![Jean Chatburn](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Jean Chatburn
Mary Lou
![Paul Irving](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Paul Irving
Erlanger
![Herman Bing](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/39951-herman-bing.webp)
Herman Bing
Costumer
![Charles Judels](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/27215-charles-judels.webp)
Charles Judels
Pierre
![Raymond Walburn](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/26345-raymond-walburn.webp)
Raymond Walburn
Sage
![A.A. Trimble](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
A.A. Trimble
Will Rogers
![Buddy Doyle](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Buddy Doyle
Eddie Cantor
![Wallis Clark](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/27638-wallis-clark.webp)
Wallis Clark
Stock Broker
![Wanda Perry](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/154670-wanda-perry.webp)
Wanda Perry
Ziegfeld Girl (uncredited)
![William Demarest](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/25647-william-demarest.webp)
William Demarest
Gene Buck (uncredited)
![Ann Gillis](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/27204-ann-gillis.webp)
Ann Gillis
Mary Lou as a Child (uncredited)
![Selmer Jackson](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/22667-selmer-jackson.webp)
Selmer Jackson
Barber Shop Customer (uncredited)
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Details.
Release DateApril 8, 1936
StatusReleased
Running Time3h 5m
Content RatingNR
Genres
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Wiki.
The Great Ziegfeld is a 1936 American musical drama film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and produced by Hunt Stromberg. It stars William Powell as the theatrical impresario Florenz "Flo" Ziegfeld Jr., Luise Rainer as Anna Held, and Myrna Loy as Billie Burke.
The film, shot at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios in Culver City, California in the fall of 1935, is a fictionalized and sanitized tribute to Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. and a cinematic adaptation of Broadway's Ziegfeld Follies, with highly elaborate costumes, dances and sets. Many of the performers of the theatrical Ziegfeld Follies were cast in the film as themselves, including Fanny Brice and Harriet Hoctor, and the real Billie Burke acted as a supervisor for the film. The "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" set alone was reported to have cost US$220,000 (US$4,639,520 in 2022 dollars), featuring a towering rotating volute of 70 ft (21 m) diameter with 175 spiral steps, weighing 100 tons. The music to the film was provided by Walter Donaldson, Irving Berlin, and lyricist Harold Adamson, with choreographed scenes. The extravagant costumes were designed by Adrian, taking some 250 tailors and seamstresses six months to prepare them using 50 pounds (23 kg) of silver sequins and 12 yards (11 m) of white ostrich plumes. Over a thousand people were employed in the production of the film, which required 16 reels of film after the cutting.One of the biggest successes in film in the 1930s and the pride of MGM at the time, it was acclaimed as the greatest musical biography to be made in Hollywood and still remains a standard in musical film making. It won three Academy Awards, including Best Picture for producer Hunt Stromberg, Best Actress for Luise Rainer, and Best Dance Direction for Seymour Felix, and was nominated for four others.
MGM made two more Ziegfeld films – one titled Ziegfeld Girl (1941), starring James Stewart, Judy Garland, Hedy Lamarr and Lana Turner, which recycled some footage from The Great Ziegfeld, and in 1946, Ziegfeld Follies by Vincente Minnelli. In 1951, the studio produced a Technicolor remake of Show Boat, which Ziegfeld had presented as a stage musical.
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