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Revision as of 03:18, 30 January 2014
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I've got to have more steps. I need more steps. I've got to get higher. Higher.
—Florenz Ziegfeld
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A 1936 Biopic about Broadway's most famous producer of his day. It is also a showcase for numbers from his most famous shows. And it won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
This film features examples of:
- Character As Himself: Ray Bolger, Harriet Hoctor, and Fanny Brice, all veterans of the Ziegfeld Follies.
- Costume Porn: Both on and off his stage shows.
- Fake Nationality: Anna Held, who was born to French and Polish parents is played by German actress Luise Rainer.
- Famous Last Words: The page quote; his last words were a bit different.
- Oscar Bait
- Pretty in Mink: His first wife wears and ermine muff, hat, and trimmed jacket. His second wife is given a chinchilla cape for Christmas.
- Those Two Actors: William Powell as Ziegfeld, and Myrna Loy as Billie Burke, making this one of their first collaborations that wasn't a Thin Man movie.