For Me and My Gal (film)
1943
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During the 1920s, three New York girls pursue careers performing in the iconic Ziegfeld Follies. Susan (Judy Garland) is a vaudeville performer who desires nothing more than a shot at the big...
- (66)
- Robert Z. Leonard
- Musical
- James Stewart
Ziegfeld Girl is a gem of sensuous, luminous, black & white cinematography. The costumes and the choreography were wonderfully designed for black and white, and both work better than those of any subsequent color musical.
Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Matt Brunson Film Frenzy. The Great Ziegfeld may have won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and Ziegfeld Follies might be the only place to catch...
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Ziegfeld Girl: Directed by Busby Berkeley, Robert Z. Leonard. With James Stewart, Judy Garland, Hedy Lamarr, Lana Turner. In the 1920s, three women become performers in the renowned Broadway show the Ziegfeld Follies, where they find fame, love, and tragedy.
- (3.5K)
- Drama, Musical, Romance
- Busby Berkeley, Robert Z. Leonard
- 1941-04-25
- The Production: 4/5
- Video: 5/5
- Io: 4.5/5
- Cial Features: 3.5/5
- Overall: 4/5
Three young women with wildly different career trajectories cross paths at the Follies in Robert Z. Leonard’s Ziegfeld Girl, a 1941 musical drama that offers more narrative heft than most musicals of the era attempted. With MGM’s newest Academy Award winner topping the bill and three of the studio’s most promising talents as the showgirls in questi...
3D Rating: NA
The film’s 1.37:1 theatrical aspect ratio is faithfully presented in this 1080p transfer using the AVC codec. The years have been swept away from the presentation with a stunningly beautiful grayscale presentation that features rich, inky black levels and pure, appealing whites. Sharpness is excellent except in glamor close-ups of the stars, and the quality of the image makes the elaborate Adrian gowns and show costumes simply pop off the screen. The movie has been divided into 42 chapters.
While the DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 mono sound mix is pristine with any age-related anomalies like hiss, crackle, flutter, and pops completely eliminated, the audio level seems just a bit underpowered and required some volume adjustment for the fidelity of the audio to make an impact.
Introduction (5:19, SD): film historian and Garland authority John Fricke offers a thorough introduction to the feature. “We Must Have Music” (10:56, SD): part of the deleted original finale to Ziegfeld Girl is offered as the jumping off point for an MGM promo on their music department offering brief clips from their upcoming musicals The Chocolate...
Robert Z. Leonard’s Ziegfeld Girlisn’t the usual fluffy musical nonsense of the period; rather, it’s a strong dramatic story with musical interludes featuring one the strongest casts of any 1940s film. Recommended!
Mar 19, 2013 · MGM’s musical extravaganza of 1941, Ziegfeld Girl, directed by the reliable craftsman Robert Z. Leonard, stars some of the studio’s most beautiful women: Judy Garland, Hedy Lamarr, and Lana Turner.
Overview. Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from ...
