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The Great Ziegfeld

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The Great Ziegfeld	comment	The Great Ziegfeld is a 1936 film directed by Robert Z. Leonard, starring William Powell, Luise Rainer, and Myrna Loy.It is a Biopic about Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. (Powell), Broadway's most famous producer of his day. From humble beginnings as a carnival barker managing a strongman, Ziegfeld reaches the heights of success, producing hit show after hit show and staging the famous Ziegfeld Follies. It is also a showcase for numbers from his most famous shows. Rainer stars as Anna Held, Ziegfeld's first wife, a French singer whom Ziegfeld manages to sign in what is a big step forward for his career. Loy is Ziegfeld's second wife, stage and film performer Billie Burke (the Real Life Burke played a succession of ditzy society wives, but is best remembered as Glinda in The Wizard of Oz). And speaking of The Wizard of Oz, Frank Morgan plays Billings, one of Ziegfeld's producer rivals.It was a huge success, winning the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Actress for Rainer. The next year Rainer won again for The Good Earth, making her the first person ever to win back-to-back acting Oscars and one of only five to this day (the others being Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Jason Robards,and Tom Hanks). Oddly, not long after picking up her second golden statue her career tanked and by 1938 she was out of Hollywood.
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The Great Ziegfeld / int_2cf282ea	comment	She Is All Grown Up: Mary Lou, the feisty little girl who is studying piano at Ziegfeld's father's house, pops up several years later as an attractive young woman looking for a job as a dancer in his show. Ziegfeld completely fails to recognize her. Her obvious sexual attraction for him is a little weird.
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The Great Ziegfeld / int_36215b80	type	Sex Sells
The Great Ziegfeld / int_36215b80	comment	Sex Sells: Early in the movie Ziegfeld is having trouble getting customers to see the Sandow the Strongman act. He realizes that rather than centering the act around Sandow lifting things, he should emphasize Sandow's physique. Ziegfeld invites the middle-aged ladies at the circus to feel Sandow's muscles. It works.
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The Great Ziegfeld / int_3ec27f76	type	Costume Porn
The Great Ziegfeld / int_3ec27f76	comment	Costume Porn: Both on and off his stage shows. The incredible expense of the costumes Ziegfeld commissions is a bit of a Running Gag.
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The Great Ziegfeld / int_43964f3	type	Worst News Judgment Ever
The Great Ziegfeld / int_43964f3	comment	Worst News Judgment Ever: "ANNA HELD LEAVES ZIEGFELD" is a big-type banner headline in a New York newspaper.
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The Great Ziegfeld / int_44f5d199	type	Pretty in Mink
The Great Ziegfeld / int_44f5d199	comment	Pretty in Mink: Ziegfeld's first wife wears an ermine muff, hat, and trimmed jacket. His second wife is given a chinchilla cape for Christmas. Ziegfield gifts a $2,700 mink coat to a singer he's trying to hire away from a burlesque show. Thinking he's just a salesman trying to use a famous name to sell her a knockoff, she buys the coat for $40, then briefly panics when she realizes it's real, thinking she's just bought stolen goods. Ziegfeld then returns the $40 and invites her to his office.
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The Great Ziegfeld / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Great Ziegfeld / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Ziegfeld is ruined by the stock market crash of 1929, and dies broke, unable to put on another show. (In Real Life, this movie came about after Billie Burke sold the rights to Ziegfeld's life story in an effort to pay off his debts.)
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The Great Ziegfeld / int_580be152	type	Adaptational Modesty
The Great Ziegfeld / int_580be152	comment	Adaptational Modesty: The actual Ziegfeld Follies included nudity and risqué situations; The Hays Code prevented this from being shown on screen.
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The Great Ziegfeld / int_5e2e55e4	type	The Casanova
The Great Ziegfeld / int_5e2e55e4	comment	The Casanova: Ziegfeld is an incorrigible womanizer.
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The Great Ziegfeld / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
The Great Ziegfeld / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: Audrey Dane, who is drunk onstage and backstage, and whose indiscretions ruin both her career and Ziegfeld's first marriage.
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The Great Ziegfeld / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
The Great Ziegfeld / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Latter-day viewers may wonder how Luise Rainer won an Oscar for all that overacting.
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The Great Ziegfeld / int_a7e85535	type	Autobiographical Role
The Great Ziegfeld / int_a7e85535	comment	Autobiographical Role: Ballerina Harriet Hoctor, and comedienne Fanny Brice, both veterans of the Ziegfeld Follies, appear as themselves.
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The Great Ziegfeld / int_acedb8f5	type	Oscar Bait
The Great Ziegfeld / int_acedb8f5	comment	Oscar Bait: It's a nearly three-hour, splashy biopic of a showbiz impresario, with lots of musical numbers.
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The Great Ziegfeld / int_c23525d4	comment	Character Title: The Great Ziegfeld.
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The Great Ziegfeld / int_dc955e66	type	Inspired by…
The Great Ziegfeld / int_dc955e66	comment	Inspired by…: "Suggested by romances and incidents in the life of America's greatest showman, Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr."
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The Great Ziegfeld / int_e3c36782	type	Call-Forward
The Great Ziegfeld / int_e3c36782	comment	Call-Forward: Ziegfeld suggests that Will Rogers expand his act beyond rope tricks, by including jokes and commentary on current events. Rogers, of course, became very famous by doing exactly that.
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The Great Ziegfeld / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
The Great Ziegfeld / int_e796ce97	comment	Blackface: One of the acts in the Ziegfeld Follies show, apparently Eddie Cantor.
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The Great Ziegfeld / int_e7e558	type	The Oner
The Great Ziegfeld / int_e7e558	comment	The Oner: "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody", from the first Ziegfeld Follies show, features a rotating stage. The number unfolds over two long takes, one of the complete rotation of the first level of the set, and the second climbing the stairs to the top. Coming in at almost exactly the film's halfway point, it's also The Centerpiece Spectacular.
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The Great Ziegfeld / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
The Great Ziegfeld / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Ziegfeld is constantly stealing business, girlfriends, secretaries, and clients from Billings. Later in the film Billings is shown with a dour, plain secretary, presumably one that Ziegfeld won't try and steal away.
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The Great Ziegfeld / int_fbd5fda1	type	Friendly Rivalry
The Great Ziegfeld / int_fbd5fda1	comment	Friendly Rivalry: Between Ziegfeld and his rival producer, Mr. Billings. They are constantly trying to one-up each other, with Ziegfeld usually winning. Billings has a great respect for Ziegfeld, though, and always helps him finance another show whenever he goes broke.
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