William Powell
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.
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- Judy GarlandSpecialty
- Fred AstaireFred Astaire/Raffles/Tai Long/Gentleman in "The Babbit and the Bromide"
- Lucille BallSpecialty
- Fanny BriceNorma
- Lucille BremerPrincess
- Lena HorneSinger in the "Love" Segment
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James MeltonAlfredo- Virginia O'BrienSpecialty Singer
The Great Ziegfeld: Directed by Robert Z. Leonard. With William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer, Frank Morgan. The ups and downs of Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., famed producer of extravagant stage revues, are portrayed.
- (9K)
- Drama, Musical
- Robert Z. Leonard
- 1936-09-23
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.
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.
Billie Burke : The great Mr. Ziegfeld, producer of the Follies, surrounded by hundreds of beautiful women, sitting on a bench holding hands, watching the riverboats go back and forth. Doesn't sound a bit like you, does it?
The film opens with William Powell as Florenz Ziegfeld (reprising his role in THE GREAT ZIEGFELD for what really amounts to a cameo), looking down from heaven as he plans to put up one last, great Ziegfeld follies using the best stars of the day.
- (3.6K)
- Comedy, Musical
- Lemuel Ayers, Roy Del Ruth, Robert Lewis
- 1946-04-08
Great Ziegfeld, The - (Wide Release Trailer) William Powell stars as Flo Ziegfeld, the producer who became Broadway's biggest starmaker, in The Great Ziegfeld 1936, featuring Luise Rainer in her Academy Award winning role.
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In 1937, at the 9th Academy Awards, the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film, The Great Ziegfeld produced the previous year won the Best Picture (called "Outstanding Production"), starring William Powell as Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. and co-starring Myrna Loy (as Ziegfeld's second wife Billie Burke), Luise Rainer (as Anna Held, which won her an Academy Award ...
