Great Ziegfeld [VHS]
by Robert Z. Leonard
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Actor: Fanny Brice, Frank Morgan, Luise Rainer, Myrna Loy, William PowellDirector: Robert Z. Leonard
Cinematographer: George J. Folsey
Cinematographer: Karl Freund
Cinematographer: Merritt B. Gerstad
Cinematographer: Oliver T. Marsh
Producer: Hunt Stromberg
Producer: Sidney Algier
Writer: William Anthony McGuire
Edition: VHS Tape
Format: Black & White, HiFi Sound, NTSC
Running Time: 176 minutes
Release Date: 1994-12-21
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
VHS Movie Reviews of Great Ziegfeld [VHS]
Movie Review: Powell as Ziggy is Great!
Summary: 5 Stars
Great cast, great movie. You'll recognize many of the actors from the Thin Man series. Powell made a lot of movies with the same group of people and this movie is one of their best. Wonderful staging, great reproductions of the Ziegfeld Follies and (dare I say it) great characterizations. A keeper.
(I had this on tape from TCM and wanted the DVD.)
Summary of Great Ziegfeld [VHS]
Winner of three Academy Awards including Best Picture, The Great Ziegfeld stars William Powell in a biopic "suggested by romances and incidents in the life of America's greatest showman, Florenz Ziegfeld Jr." With admirable accuracy, the film follows Ziegfeld's career from small-time sideshow barker to creator of the famous Ziegfeld Follies, the collection of singing, dancing, and comedy vaudeville acts that launched the careers of such luminaries as Fanny Brice, Ray Bolger, and Harriet Hoctor, all of whom play themselves in the film. In the title role, Powell offers a believable combination of ambition and hucksterism, and his Thin Man costar Myrna Loy makes a late appearance as his second wife, but it's large-eyed Luise Rainer who has the showier role (and won an Oscar) as Ziegfeld's first big star and first wife. The musical numbers, however, don't hold up quite as well as the plot, and the film is overlong at 185 minutes. It's fascinating, though, to see the vintage stars performing, and the eight-minute spectacle "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" is an eye-popper, with an elaborate revolving set supporting a large cast singing and dancing to the Irving Berlin tune while throwing in some Puccini, Strauss, Leoncavallo, and Gershwin for good measure. --David HoriuchiDrama VHS Video
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