Sheila becomes an alcoholic and is fired from the show after a drunken fall onstage. Doris Eaton Travis (1904-2010) was a versatile and multifaceted American artist. During filming, Venita Varden's costume caught fire while she was in the dressing room. As he was born into a very affluent family of bankers, his turn to photography was a bit curious to everyone. Gallagher & Shean was one of the most famous vaudeville and Ziegfeld Follies comedy teams. - A tap dance number for Eleanor Powell. It had a long run as a mixed use venue, hosting everything from Vaudeville to film showings, before finally being demolished in 1959. The Oscar statuette Judy Garland flings about like it weighs next-to- nothing in the "Great Lady Gives an Interview" sequence would have been a World War II version which, due to metal shortages and rationing during the war years, would have been made of plaster rather than 24 karat gold, and would thus have weighed less than the solid gold version handed out to winners during most of Academy history. It was replaced by a high-rise office tower; just a few years later it would probably have been protected forever by the NYC Landmark Law. The programme consists of Ziegfeld (William Powell) reviewing his past triumphs, "Bring on the Beautiful Girls" with Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, and Virginia O'Brien, "A Water Ballet" with Esther Williams, "Traviata" sung by James Melton and Marion Bell, "Pay the Two Dollars" with Victor Moore and Edward Arnold, "This Heart of Mine" and "Limehouse Blues" with Astaire and Lucille Bremer, "Number Please" with Keenan Wynn, Lena Horne sings "Love", Red Skelton in "When Television Comes", "An Interview with Judy Garland," Astaire and Gene Kelly in "The Babbitt and the Bromide", and "There's Beauty Everywhere" with Kathryn Grayson. There is now a Ziegfeld Theater cinema right next to where it stood beside the NYC Hilton (often used for movie premieres). Coincidently, Frawley's character in this film shares a striking similarity with his iconic character of Fred Mertz on I Love Lucy. In the 1930s, Vincente Minnelli had directed a Broadway production of Ziegfeld Follies which was acknowledged as a success for his experimental techniques and the first popular presentation of surrealist ballet. The only film directed by Robert Z. Leonard to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards. Other Ziegfeld girls included Leone Sousa, Monica Van Munster,[3] Mildred Chris Kennedy,[4] Irene Amelia Melfi and Dorothy Hale. She also posed for artists like James Montgomery Flagg and Alfred Cheney Johnston. La Danseuse des Folies Ziegfeld est un film ralis par Busby Berkeley et Robert Z. Leonard avec James Stewart (III), Judy Garland. Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the I am looking for a better plugin than the one I had and hope to have comments back soon. Universal Pictures bought the film rights to Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.'s life story from his widow Billie Burke in late 1933. After she turns down Gil's marriage proposal, he joins a bootlegging gang and ends up in prison. In the 1920s, three women become performers in the renowned Broadway show the Ziegfeld Follies, where they find fame, love, and tragedy.In the 1920s, three women become performers in the renowned Broadway show the Ziegfeld Follies, where they find fame, love, and tragedy.In the 1920s, three women become performers in the renowned Broadway show the Ziegfeld Follies, where they find fame, love, and tragedy. Remember pogo sticks? . However, after negative reaction from preview audiences, MGM decided to cut the actual moment of death before the film's official release. Norma Shearer (in 1919 and 1920), Alice Faye (in 1927), Joan Crawford (in 1924), Gypsy Rose Lee (in 1927), Lucille Ball (in 1927 and 1931), Phyllis Haver (in 1915), Eleanor Powell (in 1927), Ruby Keeler (in 1924), Hedda Hopper (in 1913), and June Havoc (in 1927 and 1931) were among the many hopefuls that the master showman discarded after auditions. Moreover, Miss Horne would supply her vocal intensity to a trio of renditions on LP: "Give the Lady What She Wants" (RCA Victor, 1958, reissued on a 2004 Japanese CD by BMG), sung to a samba rhythm arranged and conducted by her husband Lennie Hayton; "Lena Horne Sings Your Requests" (Charter/MGM Records, 1963, updated to CD in 1992 by the DRG label), this time the ditty propelled by a swinging tempo arranged and conducted by Marty Paich; then live as part of her legendary, Tony Award-winning performance in "Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music," which played on Broadway at the Nederlander Theatre between May 12, 1981 and June 30, 1982 (Qwest/Warner Bros. LP, 1981, Qwest/WEA CD, 1995, conducted by Linda Twine, produced by Quincy Jones). ), pub. As a result, the audience is never certain of the fate of the character, because the film jumps to the Judy Garland finale. Despite his top billing, James Stewart is on screen for a total of roughly 26 minutes, accounting for only 19.7 percent of the film. He would return to the silver screen five years later in the classic It's a Wonderful Life (1946). All of the showgirls looked very similar, both in appearance and in stature. Lucille Ball, who stars in this production based on Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.'s legendary shows, was actually fired by Ziegfeld from his production, Rio Rita, in the 1930s. [7] Travis died on May 11, 2010 at the age of 106.[8]. [6], The survivors of the chorus lines of the last century are The Rockettes of Radio City Music Hall. ZIEGFELD GIRL was one of Lana Turner's first major roles for MGM; and she definitely has the meatiest role as Sheila. Ziegfeld Girlswere the chorus girlsand showgirlsfrom Florenz Ziegfeld's theatrical Broadway revuespectaculars known as the Ziegfeld Follies(1907-1931), in New York City, which were based on the Folies Bergreof Paris. The sequence "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" was filmed in two lengthy takes after several weeks of rehearsals and filming (a definite cut is made when moving to a close-up on the singer dressed as Pagliacci, presumably to effect a change of camera position, necessary to start the inexorable move up the huge staircase). They were never legally married, but they lived together long enough to be considered so legally. But after learning that Frank is married to a wife who loves him, Sandra reconciles with Franz and abandons her career to support him on a concert tour. A "Chinatown" built up around the limehouse (as it was called) to provide housing for the workers. Shean was maternal uncle of the Marx Brothers. Nowadays, both original 1114-inch prints and more recent reprints from Johnstons original negatives have commanded significant prices in both on-line auctions and at photo galleries. On the first day of filming the finale, the gas produced by the bubbles caused Vincente Minnelli's cameraman to faint on top of a forty foot lift. Deleted from the film was the original closing number, "We Must Have Music" (music by Nacio Herb Brown, lyrics by Gus Kahn), featuring Judy Garland, Tony Martin and Six Hits and a Miss. A revue with no connecting theme, which left him free to devise separate numbers according to his fancy and all, despite their diversity (except the three he didn't direct), held together by unity of style, an elegance, and sophistication that are his own. The Harlem Opera House was built in 1889 by Oscar Hammerstein. The most expensive sequence involved a several stories high rotating white staircase featuring more than 180 performers, required weeks of rehearsals and several takes to stage, and cost over $220,000. As happens every year, Florenz Ziegfeld is seeking new talent for the latest edition of his lavish Broadway revue, the Ziegfeld Follies. They included images of Fanny Brice, Billie Burke, Ruby Keeler, the Dolly Sisters, Ina Claire, Helen Morgan, Marilyn Miller, Grace Moore, Ann Pennington, Belle Baker and Ruth Etting, plus some well-known actors and actresses of the 1920s/1930s including Mary Pickford, Gloria Swanson, Tyrone Power, Barbara Stanwyck, John Barrymore, Pearl White, Barbara LaMarr, Orson Welles, Clara Bow, Ethel Barrymore, Claudette Colbert, Corinne Griffith, Clara Kimball Young, Theda Bara, Mabel Normand, Helen Hayes, Norma Shearer, Anita Stewart, Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Marie Prevost, Tallulah Bankhead, Mary Miles Minter and Hope Hampton. For the sake of continuity, Judy Garland is costumed and made up to resemble Virginia Bruce, who crowned the "Wedding Cake" set in the earlier film. Gallagher & Shean was one of the most famous vaudeville and Ziegfeld Follies comedy teams. Jimmy Walters: Soon as I saw you, I said to myself, that's a hot lookin' little number. Ultimately, the movie received its Manhattan opening at the Capitol Theatre on March 22, 1946, and its wide release on April 8. Description[edit] Sheet music cover for "Shine on Harvest Moon" with Ruth Ettingof the Ziegfeld Follies - An "Album of Familiar Songs" medley with Garland, Marilyn Maxwell, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Lena Horne, and Kathryn Grayson. Al Shean as Al. And with the film revolution were experiencing in the 21st century, maybe well start to see both commercial and portrait photographers taking a new look at their lighting and processes emulating a bygone master. At around the 1:40 mark Kelly or his double makes an appearance for just a second or two. Sandra, a European beauty, is spotted and recruited while accompanying her violin virtuoso husband Franz to his audition for the show's orchestra. After the songwriters demonstrated this change-of-pace routine at the home of the actress, her mother opined, "Well, I don't think so." Unlike that film and the later Ziegfeld Follies, Ziegfeld himself does not appear as a character.[2]. Other Ziegfeld girls went onto societal and business successes such as Peggy Hopkins Joyce, Helen Gallagher, Anastasia Reilly,[2] Sybil Carmen, and Irene Hayes. All the shots in that book are airbrushed in the pubic area, to keep them legal with respect to the publishing standards of the day. The scene in which Susan Gallagher (Judy Garland) auditions for the Ziegfeld Follies is strikingly similar to Judy's actual audition for MGM in 1935. She . The "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" set alone was reported to have cost US$220,000 (US$4,053,381 in 2019 dollars[5]),[6] featuring a towering rotating volute of 70 ft (21 m) diameter with 175 spiral steps, weighing 100 tons. A segment with Miss Charisse and the "bubble girls" was retained in the revamped finale, which now featured Kathryn Grayson and the MGM Studio Chorus performing the vocal, Grayson's audio available on Rhino's soundtrack CD, and the revised scene available on Warner Home Video's DVD. The MGM revue marked Brice's last film. But he also extensively used a Century 1114 camera and glass plates, plus eventually the 6x6cm Zeiss Ikon, and 120 roll film. - Musical/comedy number: "Start Off Each Day with a Song" (music and lyrics by Jimmy Durante), directed by Charles Walters, performed by Jimmy Durante. Did he photograph Pola Negri in the early twenties? He came back to MGM from UA, knowing that they had just shot Lana Turner's death scene. Because he was among the first men to display his muscular body as a "work of art", he was considered "The Father of Bodybuilding", and this is what his gravestone reads. - "It's Getting Hot in Tahiti" (music and lyrics by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane) with Garland. Cast & Crew Read More Robert Z. Leonard Director James Stewart Gilbert Young Judy Garland Susan Gallagher Hedy Lamarr Sandra Kolter Lana Turner Sheila Regan Tony Martin Frank Merton Photos & Videos View All In an effort to promote pogo sticks, inventor George Hansburg arranged a number of publicity stunts, including a marriage performed on pogo sticks in the 1920 Ziegfeld Follies show. Judy Garland, Hedy Lamar and Lana Turner--three of the most glamorous leading ladies of the Golden Age of Hollywood--star with Jimmy Stewart as young women, each chosen for a life of fame on stage as a Ziegfeld Girl. She was born in New York in 1891, and died in California in 1951. A musical number sung by Garland, "We Must Have Music", was deleted from the final film. The gown designed by MGM resident designer Helen Rose, who privately designed Grace Kelly's wedding gown when she married His Royal Highness Prince Rainier of Monaco, worn by Lucille Bremer in "This Heart Of Mine" is owned by actress Arlene Fontaine. In the scene where Lana Turner reports to Ziegfeld's office when she enters and sees how many other girls are auditioning to her left, sitting, are two beautiful hopefuls. Over a thousand people were employed in the production of the film, which required 16 reels of film after the cutting. Drop file here, Contact Submissions Legal, Anatomy Films may receive commissions on affiliate links. Pat Nixon (then Patricia Ryan), the future wife of Richard Nixon and the First Lady of the United States from 1969 to 1974, makes an uncredited appearance as a Ziegfeld girl. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production number 875. Among the ideas planned in the film, but not used, included: - A spoof of the musical "Lady in the Dark" with Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Lana Turner, and Fred Astaire. A third test run was also done at the Loew's New Rochelle Theatre per The New York Times of September 2, 1945. It was called Enchanting Beauty, and contained 94 black-and-white photos. The following year she appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies. These showgirls followed on the heels of the Florodora girls, who had started to "loosen the corset" of the Gibson Girl in the early years of the 20th century. Ziegfeld Girlis a 1941 American musical filmdirected by Robert Z. Leonardand starring James Stewart, Judy Garland, Hedy Lamarr, Lana Turner, Tony Martin, Jackie Cooper, Eve Arden, and Philip Dorn. William Powell was to play Ziegfeld, Burke was to play herself, and it would feature specialties by Fanny Brice, Judy Garland (and her sisters), Eddie Cantor, and Ray Bolger. The fourth of 14 films pairing William Powell and Myrna Loy. Among his friends were Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas A. Edison (who filmed him at the Black Maria Studios), and even King Edward VII. Barbara Stanwyck and Billy Dove by Alfred Cheney Johnston. . A.A. Trimble, who portrays Will Rogers in the film, was actually a Cleveland map salesman who frequently impersonated Rogers at Rotarian lunches. At this time, color broadcasting was in its infancy, limited to only a small number of high rated programs, primarily on NBC and NBC affiliated stations, so these film showings were all still in B&W. First, Ziegfeld moved her to the Follies of 1925, where she became the inseparable companion (and rumored lover) of the formidably intellectual Louise Brooks, a featured dancer in the Follies and on the brink of Hollywood stardom. Sandow's career became bigger than ever after his association with Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.. The Great Ziegfeld (1936) Trivia Showing all 51 items A.A. Trimble, who portrays Will Rogers in the film, was actually a Cleveland map salesman who frequently impersonated Rogers at Rotarian lunches. Menu. The family fled to France in 1881. This was James Stewart's last performance before serving military service in World War II. It was replaced by a high-rise office tower; just a few years later it would probably have been protected forever by the NYC Landmark Law. The pair would repeat their roles in the cut film sequence, which also featured B.S. Oscars were never made of "solid gold". The only time she actually wore such a costume was when she started filming Annie Get Your Gun (1950), from which she was dismissed and replaced by Betty Hutton. Pully as the one burglar. He became very wealthy and famous because of his mail-order businesses, gyms, souvenir photographs, books, and personal appearances. Show details She died of an aneurysm in Commerce, Mich., a nephew, Joe Eaton, said. The Ziegfeld Follies were a series of theatrical productions on Broadway in New Yor . Hedda Hopper and The New York Times both reported that Busby Berkeley was going to direct a new finale for the picture, but this wasn't done. - "I've Got Those Rooney/Pidgeon/Skelton Blues" with Garland, Ball, and Greer Garson (in a number they'd concocted on a war bond train) moaning about their frequent co-stars. Doris Eaton Travis became the last surviving Ziegfeld Girl after the death of Dorothy Raphaelson in 2005. Leo then introduces Fred Astaire and the live action portion of the film begins. One of only two films in which Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire danced together; the other was That's Entertainment, Part II (1976). It was intended to be a 1938 sequel to the 1936 hit The Great Ziegfeld, and recycled some footage from the earlier film. In a Los Angeles Times interview with Hedda Hopper published in January 1956, James Stewart remembered the confusion caused by shooting this movie at the same time as Pot o' Gold (1941). Powell made My Man Godfrey (1936) for Universal instead. William Powell played the role of Florenz Ziegfeld again in the 1945 film Ziegfeld Follies. Cut from the film: - Musical number: "If Swing Goes, I Go Too" (music and lyrics by Fred Astaire), directed by George Sidney, sung and danced by Fred Astaire, audio available on Rhino's soundtrack CD and Warner Home Video's DVD. Included among the American Film Institute's 2004 list of 400 movies nominated for the top 100 America's Greatest Music in the Movies for the song "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody. However, his endeavors into making a living as a portrait painter were unsuccessful. Judy Garland's number, "A Great Lady Has an Interview" (music and lyrics by Roger Edens and Kay Thompson, choreography by Charles Walters), originally was offered to Greer Garson as spoof of her high-toned Mrs. Miniver/Madame Curie image. Most of the numbers are pretty good, especially Always Chasing Rainbows, sung marvelously by Garland, and You Stepped Out of a Dream, in which Lamarr looks particularly ethereal. The beautiful brunette appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies in 1925. Ziegfeld Girl Brief Synopsis Three showgirls in the Ziegfeld Follies face romantic trials on their way to the top. Instead, Decca assigned the song to Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra featuring vocalist Helen O'Connell. Embed. Silent Movie Icon Clara Bow by Alfred Cheney Johnston. Vincente Minnelli received credit as Scenic Designer of the stage show, plus additional credit as Costume Designer for two numbers written by Vernon Duke (music) and Ira Gershwin (lyrics): "Island in the West Indies", sung by Gertrude Niesen and danced by Josephine Baker; and "Sentimental Weather", sung and danced by June Preisser, her sister Cherry Preisser, and Duke McHale. The first Best Picture Oscar winner to have the name of a person in the title. These shows were a mix of variety show, musical review, and vaudeville. For more information on Funny Girl, visit the Concord Theatricals website. A huge treasure trove of extremely artistic full-nude and semi-nude full-figure studio photos with all the glass-plate negatives were found stored at a farm near Oxford, Connecticut, where he had lived since the 1940s. Prologue: "That fabulous era--when Florenz Ziegfeld glorified the American Girl, and New York wore her over its heart like an orchid--while she lasted.". Susan Gallagher (Academy Award winner Garland--The Wizard of Oz, A Star is Born) leaves her . Other Ziegfeld stars, Eddie Cantor and Will Rogers are portrayed by actors in the film. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Check out our ziegfeld girls selection for the very best in unique or custom, handmade pieces from our photographs shops. These stunning photos of Ziegfeld girls from the 1910s and 1920s that will transport you back to the period of the sexiest beauty of all time. Ziegfeld Girl $2.99 $9.99 Available at a lower price from other sellers that may not offer free Prime shipping. Hal Leonard Corporation, A New Romance of Celluloid: We Must Have Music, Judy Garland - We Must Have Music (deleted from Ziegfeld Girl, 1941), We Must Have Music (documentary of movie music), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ziegfeld_Girl_(film)&oldid=1122037305, Rotten Tomatoes template using name parameter, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, "Overture" played by Orchestra and sung by Chorus, "Laugh? The final shot of the "You Never Looked So Beautiful Before" number is recycled from "A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody" from The Great Ziegfeld (1936). got an MGM contract. The following year, in a short subject named We Must Have Music (1941), which chronicled MGM musicals from 1929 through 1941, a portion of Judy's song and dance was included. 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