Extended Reading

The Great Ziegfeld quotes

  • Stock Broker: No, we can't, Mr. Nagus. I'm sorry, but we can't hold your stocks any longer. Mr. Billings, we've had to sell you out too.

    Jack Billings: Well, that takes me back to my second childhood consistently. I was a poor kid when I started.

  • Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.: Why is it, Jack, that in a world so old - life must be so short?

    Jack Billings: Short? I feel as if I'd been here 1,000 years. And I'm gonna stay 1,000 more. And you'd feel the same way if you'd snap out of it and get a new show started.