The Great Ziegfeld (1936)

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Released 16-Mar-2004
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Flo Ziegfeld's midway attraction isn't drawing flies. "How's business, Ziggy?" a rival taunts. This winner of 3 Academy Awards including Best Picture provides the career-chronicling answer. Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.'s business was good (with Broadway's legendary Follies and more), bad (including times the showman could scarcely rub two nickels together) and rarely lacking optimistic excess.

The Great Ziegfeld casts William Powell at the head of a lustrous cast including real-life Ziegfeldians and Hollywood favourites (particularly Best Actress Oscar winner Luise Rainer). Key creative personnel from Ziegfeld shows are on board. And musical numbers (like A Pretty Girl Is like a Melody, which earned Seymour Felix the Best Dance Direction Oscar) meld Ziegfeld lavishness with cinematic pizzazz. Great? You Bet!

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Starring
William Powell
Myrna Loy
Luise Rainer
Frank Morgan
Fanny Brice
Virginia Bruce
Reginald Owen
Ray Bolger
Ernest Cossart
Joseph Cawthorn
Nat Pendleton
Harriet Hoctor
Jean Chatburn
Directed by
Robert Z. Leonard
Music
Walter Donaldson
William Axt
Hugo Friedhofer
Genre Year Running Time Format Region Coding RSDL
(84:57)
Musical 1936 177:54 (Case: 169) 576i (PAL) 2 4 5
Video
Full Frame
Audio
English Dolby Digital 1.0 (192Kb/s), Spanish Dolby Digital 1.0 (192Kb/s)
Subtitles
English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Finnish, Swedish, Croatian, Slovenian, Czech, Greek, Hungarian, Turkish, Arabic, Romanian, Dutch, English for the Hearing Impaired
Extras
Main Menu Audio, Featurette-Making Of-Ziegfeld On Film, Featurette-New York Hails The Great Ziegfeld - Vintage Newsreel
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