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Name: The Great Ziegfeld
Released: 1936-4-8
Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer, Frank Morgan, Fanny Brice

The Great Ziegfeld

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2h 56m
1936

71%

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America's most famous showman, promoter and enduring entertainment icon--a man who dominated Broadway theater for decades--The Great Ziegfeld. William Powell and Myrna Loy (The Thin Man films) star as Flo Ziegfeld and his second wife, Billie Burke, who played Glinda the good witch in The Wizard of Oz. This Academy Award-winning film interweaves the life of the promoter--from his start promoting his first wife, the beautiful Anna Held (Luise Rainer), through decades of legendary Broadway Follies revues and his discovery of such stars as Fanny Brice and Will Rogers--with re-creations of Ziegfeld's lavish musical stage productions.

Director:

Robert Z. Leonard

Producer:

Hunt Stromberg

Writer:

William Anthony McGuire

Cast:

William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer, Frank Morgan, Fanny Brice, Virginia Bruce, Reginald Owen, Ray Bolger, Ernest Cossart, Joseph Cawthorn

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

71%

Critics Consensus: This biopic is undeniably stylish, but loses points for excessive length, an overreliance on clichés, and historical inaccuracies.

Reviews

Film Frenzy

Matt Brunson

A real curio of a film, it soars in spots and staggers in others.

The 1936 Best Picture Oscar winner is surely an extravaganza of stage splendor, and William Powell charms as the impresario who knew the highest of highs and lowest of lows.

A nearly 3-hour film with big set pieces and over a thousand people employed, The Great Ziegfeld is far too long for a musical romp.

First place amongst those of its kind. [Full review in Spanish]

Fanny Brice is herself, though she isn't on screen enough to vitalize this lavish, tedious musical biography; it goes on for a whopping three hours, but through some insane editing decision she's cut off in the middle of singing "My Man."

July 28, 2022

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