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The Great Ziegfeld(Movie, 1936)

2h 56min | Genres: Drama, Music, Romance / Love
The Great ZiegfeldRating: 3.2/5 (with 4646 votes)
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... ()
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Awards & Nominations for The Great Ziegfeld

Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Actress Academy Award for Best Actress Academy Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Story Academy Award for Best Film Editing Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Production Design

About The Great Ziegfeld

Lavish biography of Flo Ziegfeld, the producer who became Broadway's biggest starmaker.

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 17 languages: Czech (CS), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 04/08/1936
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Ziegfeld - O Criador de Estrelas"
"El Gran Ziegfeld"
"위대한 지그펠드"
Color: Black & White (B/W)

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WatchPlayStream ID: MOVIES:258871, Added: 05/06/2018, Last updated: 03/14/2024