Die Höhen und Tiefen von Florenz Ziegfeld jr., der berühmten Produzentin extravaganter Bühnenrevue, werden porträtiert.Die Höhen und Tiefen von Florenz Ziegfeld jr., der berühmten Produzentin extravaganter Bühnenrevue, werden porträtiert.Die Höhen und Tiefen von Florenz Ziegfeld jr., der berühmten Produzentin extravaganter Bühnenrevue, werden porträtiert.
- 3 Oscars gewonnen
- 8 Gewinne & 5 Nominierungen insgesamt
- Fannie Brice
- (as Fannie Brice)
- Dr. Ziegfeld
- (as Joseph Cawthorne)
Oscars Best Picture Winners, Ranked
Oscars Best Picture Winners, Ranked
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WUSSTEST DU SCHON:
- WissenswertesA.A. Trimble, who portrays Will Rogers in the film, was a Cleveland map salesman who frequently impersonated Rogers at Rotarian lunches.
- PatzerIn the "Rhapsody in Blue" portion of the mammoth "Pretty Girl" number, one of the silver-fringe-and-antlers quartet of dancers gets visibly disoriented when her group does its final moves. She's the second one from the left, and her movements are completely out of sync with the other three until, with a thump, she sits down on the stairs. Since the incredibly complex number was shot in very long takes, the error was allowed to remain in the film.
- Zitate
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.: [after catching Ray Bolger doing a little softshoe backstage] Buddy, you're better with your feet than you are with your broom.
Ray Bolger: Mr. Ziegfeld, you think so? Gee, I wish you'd give me a chance. I've got talent, and I'd like to get away from shifting scenery and moving props.
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.: How long have you been a property boy?
Ray Bolger: Five years, but my heart hasn't been in it.
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.: You've been working a long time without your heart, buddy.
- Crazy CreditsThe opening credits display the title of the film and the names of the stars in marquee lights, as they would be on Broadway.
- Alternative VersionenThere is an Italian edition of this film, as Bonus Extra, on DVD "FOLLIE DI ZIEGFELD", re-edited with the contribution of film historian Riccardo Cusin. This version is also available for streaming on some platforms.
- VerbindungenEdited into Mädchen im Rampenlicht (1941)
- SoundtracksHarriet Hoctor Ballet
(1936) (uncredited)
(also called "A Circus Must Be Different in a Ziegfield Show")
Music by Con Conrad
Lyrics by Herb Magidson
Sung and danced by male and female choruses
Danced by Harriet Hoctor
The Great Ziegfeld agreed is overlong with a draggy and at times uneventful first half and half an hour could easily have been trimmed. And more could have done with the relationship between Ziegfeld and Billie Burke which appeared late in the film and didn't feel developed enough, almost like an afterthought.
However, The Great Ziegfeld is very lavishly mounted, with photography that's both beautiful and clever, sumptuous costume design and some of the most handsomely gorgeous sets of any 30s musical. Other pleasures are the marvellous and very well-staged(without being too overblown) songs with A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody being an absolute show-stopper, a script peppered with humour and heart and the mostly poignant story. Standout scenes were Fanny Brice's charming My Man, Ray Bolger's witty dancing to My Follies Girl, Luise Rainer's heart-breaking telephone(justifiably famous) and especially A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody with its clever photography and perhaps one of the best uses of a staircase in a film. The direction is adept and the performances are great, with William Powell suave personified and especially Luise Rainer who is the epitome of charm and grace, capable of a good range of emotions as seen in the telephone scene. Fanny Brice, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger are all memorable, while Myrna Loy is underused she's hardly wasted either.
Overall, a well-made, entertaining and very good film and well worth the look. 8/10 Bethany Cox
- TheLittleSongbird
- 29. März 2015
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