Ziegfeld Follies
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Actor: Fanny Brice, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Judy Garland, Red SkeltonBrand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 117 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-04-25
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product features:
- A dead showman looks down upon the earth and dreams of his perfect show.Running Time: 110 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?MUSIC DVD Rating:?NR Age:?012569678590 UPC:?012569678590 Manufacturer No:?67859
DVD Reviews of Ziegfeld Follies
DVD Review: Ziegfeld Follies
Summary: 4 Stars
A number of the popular stars of the '40's (Judy Garland, Lena Horne, Frank Sinatra, Red Skelton, etc.) are given invidivdual performance numbers in this film. If you're interested in that period, you would enjoy the flim. If you're more familiar with more modern entertainers, you might not find it as interesting. DVD Review: What a Masterpiece!
Summary: 5 Stars
I grew up watching my Grandparent's VHS copy so was thrilled to see that Ziegfeld Follies is now on DVD! The cover is quite different to that of the Bill Collins VHS but the quality of the film itself is remarkable. Watch it on Widescreen if you can, it is absolutely beautiful!
Not only are there songs like 'This Heart of Mine' by Fred Astaire (with gorgeous choreographing to match), 'Love' by Lena Horne and a catchy up-tempo number by Judy Garland, but you'll also see some catchy comedy songs like 'The Babbit and the Bromide' with Gene Kelly, 'Bring On Those Wonderful Men' (Virginia O'Brien) and some hilarious skits starring Fanny Brice and Red Skelton. This really is a true gem for fans of all ages!!! 10/10.
DVD Review: Thanks to the miracles of DVD
Summary: 2 Stars
Completely forgettable films can be resurrected and beautifully restored. Wow, is this awful. While not uniformly disastrous, it is boring, unfunny, poorly acted, over-produced, weirdly lit, and musically lame. (Except for the glorious La Traviata, but that is badly sung and bizarrely staged.) There is some good dancing (and some frightfully bad dancing) and a weak laugh or two in a couple of comedy sections, but I will be passing this along somewhere.....just gotta figure out who!
I bought this as an Astaire fan. He is certainly has all the highlights in this, but small highlights they are. Not worth much.
DVD Review: An un-movie
Summary: 2 Stars
This isn't a movie at all, by any usual definition. Rather it's a series of grossly over-produced musical and dance extravaganzas, interspersed with stale and mostly un-funny comedy bits. If you like Hollywood excess at its most excessive, this is for you.
For decades Flo Ziegfeld dominated the pretty girl, funny men area of show business, presenting his shows at the New Amsterdam theater on 42nd Street, just off Broadway and Times Square. Among his comic stars were W.C. Fields, Will Rogers and Fanny Brice. By all accounts, however, what marked his shows were pretty show girls in very fancy costumes. However, there were serious constraints: the theater stage was not all that big. Hollywood had no such constraint; thus, the movie presents a Follies that never existed and never could have existed: underwater ballet, instant costume changes impossible in live theater, enormous sets that fit only on a sound stage.
I repeat: if you like excess, the movie is for you. But it ain't what Florenz Ziegfeld did.
DVD Review: Zegfeld Follies
Summary: 5 Stars
Loaded with Tons of Talent - Why don't they make great Musicals, and Comedy scetches like this anymore..Thank you Hollywood for a great Movie.
Description of Ziegfeld Follies
A dead showman looks down upon the earth and dreams of his perfect show.This 1946 film celebrates the life, career, and showmanship of the late Florenz Ziegfeld, perhaps the most famous and influential Broadway producer in the early decades of the 20th century. The film, ostensibly directed by Vincente Minnelli, takes an unusual form. We open in Heaven, at the home of the late Ziegfeld (played by William Powell, who also played him in The Great Ziegfeld), who thinks back on his life and wonders what kind of show he would put on with the talent of today (meaning 1946). What follows is an elaborately staged revue, similar to the blend of cheesecake, music, and comedy that made up the Ziegfeld Follies--but with the stars of that moment (plus actual Ziegfeld veteran Fanny Brice). The most welcome presence is Fred Astaire, who appears in three numbers--including the only dance number ever filmed that paired Astaire with Gene Kelly at the height of their powers. The contrast is fascinating. Otherwise, you get a number of musical scenes, the best of which features Lena Horne (singing "Love"), the worst Judy Garland (in "An Interview"). And there's plenty of other stuff: everything from an Esther Williams water ballet to an excerpt of La Traviata to a variety of broadly acted vaudeville skits featuring actors Keenan Wynn, Edward Arnold, Fanny Brice, and Hume Cronyn. --Marshall Fine
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