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In the 1920s, three women become performers in the renowned Broadway show the Ziegfeld Follies, where they find fame, love, and tragedy.In the 1920s, three women become performers in the renowned Broadway show the Ziegfeld Follies, where they find fame, love, and tragedy.In the 1920s, three women become performers in the renowned Broadway show the Ziegfeld Follies, where they find fame, love, and tragedy.
Dan Dailey
- Jimmy Walters
- (as Dan Dailey Jr.)
- Directors
- Busby Berkeley(musical numbers directed by)
- Robert Z. Leonard
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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- TriviaThis was James Stewart's last performance before serving military service in World War II. He would return to the silver screen five years later in the classic It's a Wonderful Life (1946).
- GoofsThough the movie takes place in the 1920s, the clothes are clearly from the early 1940s.
- Quotes
Jimmy Walters: Soon as I saw you, I said to myself, that's a hot lookin' little number.
Sheila 'Red': Don't let it throw ya champ. I'm 20 degrees cooler than you think.
Jimmy Walters: Ah, one of them refrigerated dames, huh?
Sheila 'Red': That's right. You're not the guy to defrost me either.
- ConnectionsEdited from The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
- SoundtracksLaugh? I Thought I'd Split My Sides
(1941) (uncredited)
Written by Roger Edens
Performed by Charles Winninger and Judy Garland
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A disappointing movie
I was expecting more from this, because it has a promising cast and the same director as *The Great Ziegfeld*, which MGM had released five years earlier.
Granted, the premise is hackneyed: three young women are accepted into the Follies and have to deal with the problems that come with fame, especially fame for appearing in a (for its day) skimpy costume.
But, with the exception of Garland's character, the others don't get any good dialogue, no chance to become more than cardboard characters.
At one point, we see Al Sheen do (parts of) his famous vaudeville routine with Charles Winninger replacing his old colleagues Pat Gallagher. Part way through we cut away to an uninteresting moment of drama, rather than getting the whole of what could have been one of the highlights of this film.
The musical numbers here are often lavishly staged, but not in an interesting manner. If you compare it to MGM's *The Great Ziegfeld*, you can see the difference.
That is especially true of the last number, which reuses the wedding cake set used so spectacularly at the end of *The Great Ziegfeld*. The way it is filmed is bland, however, and nothing like the breathtaking finale in the previous picture.
Lana Turner and Hedy Lamarr both look beautiful in this picture, but they are largely just window dressing here.
In short, a pretty but disappointing picture.
Granted, the premise is hackneyed: three young women are accepted into the Follies and have to deal with the problems that come with fame, especially fame for appearing in a (for its day) skimpy costume.
But, with the exception of Garland's character, the others don't get any good dialogue, no chance to become more than cardboard characters.
At one point, we see Al Sheen do (parts of) his famous vaudeville routine with Charles Winninger replacing his old colleagues Pat Gallagher. Part way through we cut away to an uninteresting moment of drama, rather than getting the whole of what could have been one of the highlights of this film.
The musical numbers here are often lavishly staged, but not in an interesting manner. If you compare it to MGM's *The Great Ziegfeld*, you can see the difference.
That is especially true of the last number, which reuses the wedding cake set used so spectacularly at the end of *The Great Ziegfeld*. The way it is filmed is bland, however, and nothing like the breathtaking finale in the previous picture.
Lana Turner and Hedy Lamarr both look beautiful in this picture, but they are largely just window dressing here.
In short, a pretty but disappointing picture.
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- richard-1787
- Nov 14, 2017
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- Las chicas de Ziegfeld
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- Runtime2 hours 12 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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