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Ziegfeld Follies

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Ziegfeld Follies
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NR,1hr 49min
Genres:
Musical,Comedy
Release:
1946
Directors:
Roy Del Ruth, Vincente Minnelli, Norman Taurog, Charles Walters, Lemuel Ayers, George Sidney, Robert Lewis
Distributor:
Warner Home Video
Starring:
Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Lucille Bremer  ...more
Synopsis: The presence of William Powell as legendary showman Flo Ziegfeld at the beginning of Ziegfeld Follies might lead an impressionable viewer from thinking that this 1946 film is a Technicolor sequel to the 1936 Oscar-winning The Great Ziegfeld. Not so: this is more in the line of an all-star revue, much like such early talkies as Hollywood Revue of 1929 and Paramount on Parade. We meet a grayed, immaculately garbed Ziegfeld in Paradise (his daily diary entry reads "Another heavenly day"), where he looks ... Full Synopsis
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Craig Butler, AMG Review
Revues are a tricky thing o pull off on film (which is why most producers try to hedge their bets but tacking a plot onto a filmed revue, thereby making it satisfying neither as revue nor as a scripted show), but Ziegfeld Follies manages it beautifully. That's not to say it is by any means perfect, for there are definitely some "lows" mixed in with the "highs." But that's the nature of the revue format. ... Full Review
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Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire/Raffles/Tai Long
Lucille Ball
The Princess
Lucille Bremer
Princess/Moy Ling
Fanny Brice
Norma
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