The Great Ziegfeld (1936)

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"There is only one reason that I, and I suspect most cineastes today, would want to check out The Great Zigfeld- it won the Academy Award for the Best Picture of 1936. Charles Matthews, the author of Oscar A to Z called the award a travesty in any year, and it while the movie is not awful, its hard to believe that a hokey, three hour backstage biopic could triumph when Modern Times was not even nominated. Despite its length, the film has a really simple storyline- the rise and fall of Broadway producer Florence Zigfeld (William Powell), and his many love affairs, interspersed with performances of highlights from Zigfeld shows, some of which performed by the original actors, others with impersonators (oddly enough, Zigfelds second wife, actress Billie Burke, does not play herself, although she sold the rights to MGM for big bucks and was a contract player at that studio). Part of the problem with the movie is that Zigfeld is and probably was in real life a chauvinist jerk- he mostly ... " [More]

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