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Ziegfeld Girl |  | Directors: Busby Berkeley, Robert Z. Leonard
Actors: James Stewart, Judy Garland, Hedy Lamarr, Lana Turner, Tony Martin
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  25 reviews
Format: Black & White, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 132 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.6 x 0.6
MPN: WARD65909D
ISBN: 0790789892
UPC: 012569590922
EAN: 9780790789897
Theatrical Release Date: April 25, 1941
Release Date: April 6, 2004
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Product Description
About ziegfeld showgirls hoping for stardom in this glittering musical from busby berkeley. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 03/15/2005 Starring: Judy Garland Heddy Lamar Run time: 147 minutes Rating: Nr
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Judy, Hedy and Lana sparkle on the Great White Way... June 21, 2009
Byron Kolln (the corner where Broadway meets Hollywood)
Intended by MGM as a followup-of-sorts to their 1936 smash hit THE GREAT ZIEGFELD, 1941's ZIEGFELD GIRL mixed melodrama and musical comedy to maximum effect, detailing the lives of three new Follies girls and their rocky climb to stardom.
Sparky red-headed lift operator Sheila Regan (Lana Turner), dignified musician's wife Sandra Kolter (Hedy Lamarr) and tenacious vaudevillian Susan Gallagher (Judy Garland) all have the potential of making it big in the Ziegfeld Follies.
Sheila is the girl who wants fame and fortune via the shortest possible route, and if that involves courting the attentions of rich stage-door daddies, and dumping her faithful boyfriend Gil (Jimmy Stewart), that's exactly what she'll do. Sandra is the cultured wife of penniless violin player Franz Kolter (Philip Dorn) and success in the Follies doesn't really matter to her either way; she has her feet planted firmly on the ground and even the attentions of womanising Follies tenor Frank Merton (Tony Martin) will barely register with her. Finally there's Susan Gallagher. "I was born in a trunk but Pop left the lid open!", Susan proudly proclaims. She co-stars with her father (Charles Winninger) in a hammy vaudeville routine and later harbours extreme guilt at having broken up the act to appear in the Follies. Success will only come to one of these girls. The road to Follies stardom will be littered with broken hearts and broken dreams for the other two...
ZIEGFELD GIRL was one of Lana Turner's first major roles for MGM; and she definitely has the meatiest role as Sheila. Hedy Lamarr doesn't really do much except perhaps play a variation of herself but she's a gorgeous presence. Judy Garland, in one of her first "grown-up" roles, is luminous as always and has two brilliant musical numbers in which to shine ("I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" and "Minnie from Trinidad").
The ideal film for a lazy Sunday afternoon.
TRIVIA: The film recycles the "Pretty Girl is Like a Melody" spinning wedding-cake shot from THE GREAT ZIEGFELD for the "You Never Looked So Beautiful Before" finale, by cleverly costuming Judy Garland to look exactly like Virginia Bruce on top of the revolving "cake".
At the same time that he was playing Judy Garland's father in ZIEGFELD GIRL, Charles Winninger was also Deanna Durbin's dad in the "Three Smart Girls" movies at Universal. The ZIEGFELD GIRL connection? Both Garland and Durbin were both under short-term contracts at MGM, but sadly only one could be groomed as the studio's new juvenile star. MGM paired them in a short ("Every Sunday") to decide who would stay. Deanna was dropped but later went on to great success at rival studio Universal where she made over 20 films and happily retired at the age of 27.
 1940's musical June 19, 2009
Heller (jacksonville fl)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
We laughed ourselves silly over the outrageous costumes. If this was what busby berkley was famous for, help us all. Even given the year it was made it is comedic. Hedy Lammar looks sinster, Judy Garland looks up usual pilled up self. Lana Turners tried her dramatic skills which are non existent. I'm reminded of a quote from Bea Arthur "There will never be a generation as naive as we were"
Great Musical June 13, 2008
Julie Hoover (Cape Coral, FL United States)
I watched this movie over the weekend and fell in love with it. Hedy Lamarr, Lana Turner, and the great Judy Garland light up the screen. The lavish musical numbers, georgeous costumes, and old Hollywood glamour make this a "can't miss" event.
 Ziegfeld Girl August 15, 2007
W.A.Mozart (London, ON, Canada)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great Music. I was thrilled to see the musical dance number 'Minnie from Trinidad'. I have been looking for it for years. It's great you made it available on DVD.
Class A Suds August 29, 2006
B. Sloane (Los Angeles, CA USA)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Okay, the plot is familiar -- three girls head for stardom in the Follies, one good (Garland), one bad (Turner), and one indifferent (Lamarr), with predictable results. But MGM threw all of its renowned studio craftsmanship into this film, and it makes for a wonderfully satisfying experience. Garland has moxie and talent, so her character makes it -- but only after proving her loyalty to her vaudeville Dad. That's MGM's (read: Louis Mayer's) take on the morality of show business, but it doesn't come across as hokey because Garland makes us believe in it, and her, all the way. Turner's character isn't really bad, just greedy, but she rejects James Stewart's offer of domestic penury and, in MGM's eyes, that's equivalent to Mortal Sin. So she lushes herself to the bottom. The part may be a stereotype, but Turner isn't. For those who've only seen her as a caricature of herself in later roles, this performance is a revelation. And Lamarr -- well, her character leaves her husband (justified, if you ask me; he acts like a jerk about her success) but runs back to him in time for the final number. I can't really get on Lamarr's case for her lack of acting skills since she was (a) drop-dead gorgeous and (b) an electronics wizard in real life, which is about all you can ask of one person. Still, one does get tired of MGM's insistence on pushing her into roles that could have used a real actress.
And yes, this movie is one that cries out for the visual joys of technicolor (The Sea Hawk is another). But perhaps Adrian's gloriously decadent costumes and Busby Berkeley's reliably loony production numbers would have been way over the top in color. In black-and-white they seem just right, an evocation of a bygone era. Ziegfeld Girl is a sudsy but terrifically effective fairy tale that retains its magic even today.
Last word: this may be the only Edward Everett Horton movie in which he doesn't plague the viewer with stupid double-takes, a real plus if you've seen him dithering in RKO movies. Plus his character's name (Noble Sage) is one of my all-time favorites.
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