Though the movie takes place in the 1920s the clothes are clearly from the early 1940s. "Mister Gallagher and Mister Shean" is one of the most famous songs to come from vaudeville, first presented by the duo in a skit set in Egypt. Long Island was filled with duck farms. Hedy Lamarr doesn't really do much except perhaps play a variation of herself but she's a gorgeous presence. Louis B. Mayer liked Charisse so much and was impressed with her striking resemblance to MGM's Ava Gardner that Mayer asked Warner's if they could keep her and put her under a seven-year contract, and Warner's agreed. Jimmy Walters: Soon as I saw you, I said to myself, that's a hot lookin' little number. Yet the Ziegfeld Follies ran until 1931, and would jumpstart the careers of several successful future Hollywood actresses. Thats why Ive always used the simplest of drapes. However, the earlier Pre-Code film Glorifying the American Girl (1929) contains an accurate depiction of Ziegfeld's productions and was partly filmed in 2-strip Technicolor. Despite its mass publication as one of the featured songs, "It's Been So Long" is never performed in the film. The initial version previewed at the Fox Westwood Village Theatre in Los Angeles on November 1, 1944 ran 173 minutes. 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. Gene Kelly is allegedly in the Judy Garland "Trinidad" sequence. 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. Her father, not wanting to thwart her career, encourages her to stay in the Follies while he continues traveling on the vaudeville circuit alone. The Esther Williams water ballet from this sequence was reset to an instrumental version of "This Heart of Mine" (music by Harry Warren, lyrics by Arthur Freed). Lana Turner's character was loosely modeled after real-life Ziegfeld Girl Lillian Lorraine, who once suffered a drunken fall into the orchestra pit during an extravagant number. In the present, there is a large, duck-shaped ferrocement structure located in Flanders, NY that houses a gift and memorabilia shop dedicated to that industry. Eventually, the fire brigade was called to turn stop it. Franz is rejected because his musical skills are too good for the job, and Sandra becomes a showgirl over Franz' objections in order to earn needed income, causing a rift between the couple. She . The set for "A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody" took months to build and cost over $200,000. 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). Although Susan is less physically beautiful than the other showgirls, her enormous singing talent lands her a featured role. The Harlem Opera House was built in 1889 by Oscar Hammerstein. Fanny Brice's material in this picture had originated on stage and radio. Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2020. And he continued to use it with a 2 inch Steinheil lens. The other one is also a biography, The Life of Emile Zola (1937). 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. Although he was quite well known for his nudes, he had stated, Ive never been interested in making lewd photographs. When Universal decided to make a faithful film version of the Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II musical "Show Boat", which Ziegfeld himself had originally produced onstage, Universal sold "The Great Ziegfeld" to MGM in March 1935 while still in pre-production. More Dorothy Flood Doris Eaton Travis became the last surviving Ziegfeld Girl after the death of Dorothy Raphaelson in 2005. For the film, see, "19 Jun 2002, 17 - North County Times at Newspapers.com", "12 Nov 1990, Page 16 - South Florida Sun Sentinel at Newspapers.com", https://www.albany.org/blog/post/famous-faces-jack-legs-diamond/, What's My Line? 45 of 45 found this interesting | Share this 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. He came back to MGM from UA, knowing that they had just shot Lana Turner's death scene. Silent Movie Icon Clara Bow by Alfred Cheney Johnston. Judy, Hedy, and Lana are gorgeous, but even their legendary beauty can't save this. The on-air sketch, entitled "Bungling Burglars", had been broadcast on January 4, 1940 and featured Fanny as the precocious Snooks, with Hanley Stafford playing her exasperated Daddy. The movie's Dance Director, Robert Alton, had choreographed the 1936 Broadway "Follies". She was discovered by Ziegfeld at age 17. He was married to film star Janet Gaynor for twenty years. As parents, we share a desire to help our children look and feel their best. The film, which features musical numbers by Busby Berkeley, was produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer . Like her character, Judy came in with her father (Frank Gumm) as her accompanist and was flopping until Roger Edens, like Slayton (Paul Kelly) in the film, took over the audition, coached her to sing more softly and subtly, and got her the MGM contract. It is said that she died at age 21 from a broken heart after her marriage engagement was called off. Unfortunately, most available versions of the latter Jazz Age film are from surviving prints with all offensive material censored. As the lawyer incurs greater and greater sentences, his defendant keeps pleading, "Pay the two dollars!". Barbara Stanwyck and Billy Dove by Alfred Cheney Johnston. Frequently bought together This item: Ziegfeld Girl (DVD) $1395 Ziegfeld Follies (1945) $1499 The Great Ziegfeld $999 Total price: $38.93 Add all three to Cart Some of these items ship sooner than the others. 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 show mixed performances by new and established acts-an incredible list of talent that included Will Rogers, Bob Hope, W. C. Fields, Josephine Baker, Eddie Cantor, Fanny Brice (the original Funny Girl), and Sophie Tucker.These acts were interspersed with musical numbers and tableaux vivant . At around the 1:40 mark Kelly or his double makes an appearance for just a second or two. Ziegfeld ended up losing the bulk of his money in the stock market crash of 1929, and he died in 1932. One of 11 American Music/als to win Best Picture: 1)The Broadway Melody (1929), 2)The Great Ziegfeld (1936), 3)Going My Way (1944), 4)An American in Paris (1951), 5)Gigi (1958), 6)West Side Story (1961), 7)My Fair Lady (1964), 8)The Sound of Music (1965), 9)Oliver! She reports that he liked her ankles. But it was this affiliation that elevated him to being able to start photographing everything from aspiring actresses and society matrons to a wide range of upscale retail commercial products for magazine ads. According to the trade paper "Hollywood Box Office" dated for November 23, 1940: "Sue Garland, sister of Judy, signed as a member of the dance chorus in 'Ziegfeld Girl'.". Ultimately the film cost MGM about $2 million to make, a huge amount in its day. 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. 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. 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. The first biopic to win an Academy Award for Best Picture, though the feat would be repeated the very next year with The Life of Emile Zola (1937). Content on this page is contributed by editors who belong to our editorial community. From a December 13, 1944 recording session, Decca Records issued a disc of Fred Astaire singing and tapping to a spirited song which he had written for the picture, a number which wound up on the cutting-room floor - "If Swing Goes, I Go Too". Judy's two commercial cuts, arranged and conducted by Victor Young, recorded on January 26, 1945 and released on March 22, along with an alternate take of "This Heart of Mine", have been presented on her CD box set from MCA, "The Complete Decca Masters (Plus)". Fanny Brice was a Ziegfeld star and plays herself in the film. From a very young age, Travis had been performing on stage. 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. Gene Kelly is allegedly in the Judy Garland "Trinidad" sequence. Ziegfeld Girls were the chorus girls from Florenz Ziegfelds theatrical Broadway revue spectaculars known as the Ziegfeld Follies (19071931), in New York City, which were based on the Folies Bergre of Paris. This rather than For Me And My Gal (1942) might be his first film. I Thought I'd Split My Sides" (music and lyrics by, "Caribbean Love Song" (music by Edens, lyrics by, "Minnie from Trinidad" (Edens) sung by Chorus and danced by, "Ziegfeld Girls/You Gotta Pull Strings" (Edens) sung by Judy Garland and Chorus, "You Never Looked So Beautiful" (music by, This page was last edited on 15 November 2022, at 14:20. Susan (Judy Garland) is a vaudeville performer who desires nothing more than a shot at the big. [6], The survivors of the chorus lines of the last century are The Rockettes of Radio City Music Hall. Maybe I'm being a little too hard on this, maybe not, but in my humble opinion this movie is strictly for fans of Judy, Lana, Hedy, Jimmy and M-G-M. By what name was Ziegfeld Girl (1941) officially released in India in English? 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. 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. Susan Gallagher (Academy Award winner Garland--The Wizard of Oz, A Star is Born) leaves her . - A minstrel number with Garland, Rooney, Astaire, Gene Kelly, Lou Holtz, and Nancy Walker. They starred in Ziegfeld Follies, directed by Florenz Ziegfeld, on Broadway. In a commentary following the film on Turner Classic Movies in 2008, Robert Osborne said that the original script had the Lana Turner character actually die at the end. - "Reading of the Play", a sketch with Garland and Frank Morgan. Decca Records released a Judy Garland 78rpm record containing two songs from the score not performed by her in the movie: "Love" (music and lyrics by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane), a fervent air which Garland sang on radio the twice in 1945, then occasionally in her 1951-52 concerts as an encore, and two times on her CBS-TV series, The Judy Garland Show (1963): a duet with Lena Horne from the October 13, 1963 broadcast, and a solo version telecast on March 22, 1964. - An "Album of Familiar Songs" medley with Garland, Marilyn Maxwell, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Lena Horne, and Kathryn Grayson. 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. The primary contribution of the book is the significant addition it represents to what we know about the theatrical and cinematic history of stardom and the ways that stars carry social history." They are: Ziegfeld Girl Blu-ray delivers stunning video and audio in this fan-pleasing Blu-ray release An elevator operator, a wife of a struggling concert violinist, a born-in-a-trunk vaudevillian:. This article teaches you fun facts, trivia, and history events from the year 1946. The theater that Ziegfeld built in 1927 on 6th Avenue and 54th (with financial help from Hearst) was used as a cinema from the 1930s and demolished in 1966 after a brief reopening. In a commentary following the film on Turner Classic Movies in 2008, Robert Osborne said that the original script had the Lana Turner character actually die at the end. 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. Linda . After starring in several projects (none of them hits) Bremer asked to be released from her studio contract and walked away from her film career. When. Garson's then-husband Richard Ney chimed in with "No, it's not for you, dear.". When Life magazine showed a photo of Silver in his pink feathers and bows with the headline 'Silver is a Sissy', the horse's trainer threatened to sue MGM for defamation of Silver's character. In "A Great Lady Has an Interview", there is a picture in the background of Judy Garland barefoot and wearing a ragged dress. The Ziegfeld Follies were a series of theatrical productions on Broadway in New Yor . Ziegfeld Girl $2.99 $9.99 Product details Language : English Package Dimensions : 7.32 x 4.19 x 1.12 inches; 6.13 Ounces Director : Robert Z. Leonard Date First Available : February 4, 2007 Actors : James Stewart, Judy Garland,Hedy lamarr and Lana Turner Subtitles: : English, French, Spanish During his career he ended up photographing several hundred actresses and showgirls, a few of who eventually became famous in the movies. got an MGM contract. In 1897, Ziegfeld married Anna Held, one of his Ziegfeld girls, by common-law. 18 people found this helpful. They danced in complete synchronization, and were the only act that was uniform in the Ziegfeld Follies. Susan, a seventeen-year-old from a theatrical family, is discovered performing a vaudeville act with her aging father. The beautiful brunette appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies in 1925. 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. He came back to MGM from UA, knowing that they had just shot Lana Turner's death scene. In 1960, Alfred Cheney Johnston donated a set of 245 large prints of his work to the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. The lengthy shooting schedule ran between April 10 and August 18, 1944, with retakes plus additional segments filmed on December 22, 1944 and then between January 25 and February 6, 1945. Ziegfeld Girl Brief Synopsis Three showgirls in the Ziegfeld Follies face romantic trials on their way to the top. Vintage Everyday Drop file here, Contact Submissions Legal, Anatomy Films may receive commissions on affiliate links. Powell made My Man Godfrey (1936) for Universal instead. Theatre Owned / Operated by The Shubert Organization. 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 twentieth century. Susan worries about her father and eventually convinces the producers to give him a part in the show, where he proves to be a surprise hit. Three beautiful women soon discover this when they join the spectacle on. That's how Charisse, who, at the time, was using the name Lily and her mother's maiden name, Norwood. Astaire's two Decca sides, with an orchestra directed by Al Sack, have been brought back on a French CD box set entitled "Songs & Pictures 1928-1944," released by EPM Music. Debut of actresses Leslie Brooks and Patricia Dane. But she was considered too old to cast by the studio. 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). Billie Burke never really rated the film much despite taking a personal interest in the writing of the script. Sheila 'Red': That's right. Over the course of her career, she worked as a dancer, stage and film actress, dance instructor, writer, and rancher. For more information on Funny Girl, visit the Concord Theatricals website. Pinterest. Brice's other comedy scene filmed for the picture, "Baby Snooks and the Burglar" (The footage was deleted and now is considered lost. Planned in 1938 to be made with Eleanor Powell, Joan Crawford, Virginia Bruce and Walter Pidgeon. The Harlem Opera House was built in 1889 by Oscar Hammerstein. At around the 1:40 mark Kelly or his double makes an appearance for just a second or two. Lucille Bremer, who appears in two dance routines with Fred Astaire here ("This Heart of Mine" and "Limehouse Blues") was a favorite of M-G-M studio boss Louis B. Mayer, who cast her in a prominent role in Meet Me in St. Louis (as Judy Garland's older sister) and became convinced she was a future star. 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