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The Great Ziegfeld
1936 3h 5m Not Rated
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6.6
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The ups and downs of Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., famed producer of extravagant stage revues, are portrayed.
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Directed By
Robert Z. Leonard
Written By
William Anthony McGuire
Studio
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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Cast of The Great Ziegfeld
William Powell
Florenz 'Flo' Ziegfeld Jr.
Myrna Loy
Billie Burke
Luise Rainer
Anna Held
Frank Morgan
Billings
Fanny Brice
Fannie Brice
Virginia Bruce
Audrey Dane
Reginald Owen
Sampston
Ray Bolger
Ray Bolger
Ernest Cossart
Sidney
Joseph Cawthorn
Dr. Ziegfeld
Nat Pendleton
Sandow
Dennis Morgan
Stage Singer in "Pretty Girl" Number
Marcelle Corday
Marie
Robert Greig
Ziegfeld's Butler (uncredited)
Harriet Hoctor
Herself
Jean Chatburn
Mary Lou
Paul Irving
Erlanger
Herman Bing
Costumer
Charles Judels
Pierre
Raymond Walburn
Sage
A.A. Trimble
Will Rogers
Buddy Doyle
Eddie Cantor
Wallis Clark
Stock Broker
Wanda Perry
Ziegfeld Girl (uncredited)
William Demarest
Gene Buck (uncredited)
Ann Gillis
Mary Lou as a Child (uncredited)
Selmer Jackson
Barber Shop Customer (uncredited)
John Larkin
Sam (uncredited)
Barry Norton
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Charles Trowbridge
Julian Mitchell (uncredited)
The Great Ziegfeld Reviews
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Although some of the production's technical aspects remain impressive, the dramatic elements come across as trite and many of the musical numbers are dated.
TIME Magazine
TIME Staff
Pretentious, packed with hokum and as richly sentimental as an Irving Berlin lyric, it is, as such, top-notch entertainment.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Mildred Martin
Grand, glorious, gigantic and gorgeous... It is too bad Ziegfeld couldn't have seen his biography according to Hollywood, MGM, and Mr. Stromberg.
New Yorker
Pauline Kael
Fanny Brice is herself, though she isn't on screen enough to vitalize this lavish, tedious musical biography; it goes on for a whopping three hours, but through some insane editing decision she's cut off in the middle of singing "My Man."
Harrison's Reports
P.S. Harrison
There is no picture to equal it for lavishness, beauty, and all-around entertainment; and not once during the three hours that it runs does it become boresome.
Motion Picture Herald (Exhibitors Herald)
MPH Staff
In comparison, no previous music dance spectacle, no matter how elaborately produced, approaches it from a standpoint of sheer brilliance and beauty.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Colvin McPherson
Its cast is skillfully selected. Although Powell does his tremendous task well, I am sure Luise Rainer as Anna Held will be as long remembered.
The New Republic
Otis Ferguson
Too glib for real life, it is persuasive for all that -- possibly just because of that.
Miami Herald
Edgar Hay
It's a stunner -- three hours of constant amusement, stupendous spectacle, and fascinating personalities.
New York Times
Frank S. Nugent
If the picture overcrowds its screen, at least we must admit it is an impressive kaleidoscope; and probably nothing short of that could reflect the gaudy career of America's foremost showman.
Austin American-Statesman
Ruth Lewis
For the greater part, The Great Ziegfeld is sentiment; for the remainder, spectacle. It is an unbeatable combination and MGM has seen fit to give it a more substantial claim in good casting.
Boston Globe
Globe Staff
It is only fitting and proper that The Great Ziegfeld... should be as magnificent, as picturesque and as crammed with ingenuity and talent as the combined money and talent of Hollywood could provide.
The Nation
Mark Van Doren
Few films have been more lavish than this one... but since it can be doubted that Ziegfeld was either the Shakespeare or the Leonardo he is represented to have been, it can also be doubted that the money was well spent.
Chicago Tribune
Mae Tinee
For sheer lavishness, attention to detail, honesty of purpose, The Great Ziegfeld is to be commended. Where the picture falls down -- hard! -- is in its fulsomeness.
Los Angeles Times
Edwin Schallert
Luise Rainer as Anna Held does one of the most difficult of interpretations. The character has been much softened and Miss Rainer is full of charm in the role.
Cine-Mundial
Eduardo Guaitsel
A work that dazzles, and is decidedly a smash hit wherever it goes. [Full review in Spanish]
Variety
Abel Green
Considering the recent screen standards in book musicals with five numbers for 100 to 110 minutes of running time this Metro Santaclausing of numbers becomes virtually a double-feature filmusical.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
It's amazingly dull, even with William Powell in the lead and guest appearances by the likes of Ray Bolger and Fanny Brice, so of course it won the Best Picture Oscar for 1936.
Tampa Bay Times
Marion Aitchison
It is brilliant and spectacular to a superlative degree with scenes that are nothing less than astonishing in their magnificence.
New York Daily News
Kate Cameron
The producers are to be congratulated on every phase of the beautiful production except their lack of courage cutting the film.
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