The Great Ziegfeld Comments

  • Nathaniel 2022-04-21 09:03:15

    The Legendary Life, especially the ending, is a bit like Citizen Kane. It's standard Hollywood production, neat and flawless and no surprises. After reading it, there is nothing to say. The early Oscar best picture treatment is really not good, and there is not even a restored...

  • Tatyana 2022-04-21 09:03:15

    Siegfried went bankrupt repeatedly, flirted with beautiful women, held cabaret shows, and regularly made headlines. (Siegfried and his competitors are more interesting (the first wife actor's performance is very...

  • Corine 2022-04-20 09:02:25

    It's really good to be after the face, the plot is suppressed by the singing, dancing and stage modeling; the scale is larger than the Spring Festival Gala, but unfortunately it is a black and white...

  • Giovani 2022-04-20 09:02:25

    A pioneer of the dance...

  • Leonor 2022-04-20 09:02:25

    The ultimate performance of stage musicals, and the stage design is too awesome. Although there are a few flaws in the long shots, the flaws do not hide the beauty. It was also too focused on performance in that era. In fact, I want to see how to design and participate in the presentation of the...

  • Wyatt 2022-04-20 09:02:25

    The stage design is good, especially the rotating cake. Basically, many viewers don’t give extra points because of the art design. They prefer the plot and acting skills, followed by photography and editing. Many viewers don’t understand why they are the best. Most of them have one thing in common: art, of course it’s not gorgeous or good fine arts, depending on the...

  • Tre 2022-04-20 09:02:25

    The big production is very long, and I watched it for three nights. The story part is like a girl-picking tutorial, while the stage part is amazing; Billing dedicated his previous muse, secretary and money, true love, Anna slapped her face several times and fell in love with the king, true love. In one scene, a group of producers listened to Siegfried's bragging about the idea of ​​a new play, and called for a piano...

  • Madisyn 2022-04-20 09:02:25

    The early musical was also a biopic, which was not better than "Broadway Melody". Why do people only realize that life is so short when they are old? - "Song and Dance King...

  • Braden 2022-04-20 09:02:25

    It's hard to imagine that a movie of this quality could have won the Best Picture Oscar. Even at the same time, this is a very mediocre work, and the whole movie is very outdated from the current point of view, like a The more gorgeous running account, the script is too mediocre, and the coherence of the plot is not particularly well done. After reading it, I don't know why it went bankrupt, and why did it make a comeback, without any sense of substitution. I originally wanted to give it a 5,...

  • Hollis 2022-04-20 09:02:25

    A dream. A biopic of Broadway cabaret mogul Siegfried. Siegfried's life has absolutely no "moderation". In the end, the prosperity is over, and who will pay the debt. According to modern aesthetics, in the musicals of the 1930s and 1940s, the actors wore 99 more pieces of clothing, and the stage beauty had 99 more...

Extended Reading

The Great Ziegfeld quotes

  • Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.: Anna's show is all set. No, in this one - I want to star the girls.

    Jack Billings: Don't be ridiculous. Without personalities, you haven't got a chance.

    Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.: Oh, I'll have personalities, all right. Lots of personalities! But, they'll mostly be blondes and brunettes.

    Jack Billings: What are you going to call this opera?

    Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.: I'm going to call it: the Ziegfeld Follies.

  • Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.: I want to do a show with silk drapes, with lace, with *beautiful* girls. I'm going to dress them not for the bald heads in the front row, but for the women in the last row. I want to surround them with glamour, glitter. Glorify them!