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The Great Ziegfeld [Region 2]

Staring: William Powell , Myrna Loy , Luise Rainer , Herman Bing , Ray Bolger
Director: Robert Z. Leonard
Winner of three Academy Awards including Best Picture, The Great Ziegfeld stars William Powell in a biopic "suggested by romances and incidents in the life of America's greatest showman, Florenz Ziegfeld Jr." With admirable accuracy, the film follows Ziegfeld's career from small-time sideshow barker to creator of the famous Ziegfeld Follies, the collection of singing, dancing, and comedy vaudeville acts that launched the careers of such luminaries as Fanny Brice, Ray Bolger, and Harriet Hoctor, all of whom play themselves in the film. In the title role, Powell offers a believable combination of ambition and hucksterism, and his Thin Man costar Myrna Loy makes a late appearance as his second wife, but it's large-eyed Luise Rainer who has the showier role (and won an Oscar) as Ziegfeld's first big star and first wife. The musical numbers, however, don't hold up quite as well as the plot, and the film is overlong at 185 minutes. It's fascinating, though, to see the vintage stars performing, and the eight-minute spectacle "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" is an eye-popper, with an elaborate revolving set supporting a large cast singing and dancing to the Irving B...

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The Good Earth [Blu-ray]

Staring: Luise Rainer , Paul Muni
Director: Victor Fleming
MGM's status as the "class" studio was fully engaged when production chief Irving Thalberg took on this expensive, serious adaptation of Pearl Buck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. A smooth entertainment with a stiff portion of this-is-good-for-you seriousness, The Good Earth epitomizes Thalberg's idea of Art, which was also the prevailing idea of the period he dominated in Hollywood. The story follows Wang Lung (Paul Muni), a humble farmer, who makes an arranged marriage to a slave, O-Lan (Luise Rainer). The couple's great struggle is to procure--and then, against withering odds, keep--a piece of land, ownership of which makes the difference between self-determination and near-slavery. The film's physical production is truly eye-filling, with location shooting in China providing exterior shots and backdrops (and blending seamlessly with the footage shot in the U.S.). No wonder the great cinematographer Karl Freund won an Oscar for the photography, which includes an awesomely staged locust plague.

Also copping an Oscar was Luise Rainer for best actress--her second consecutive award, after The Great Ziegfeld. Rainer's underplayed portrait of self-effacing stoicism ...

The Great Waltz (A Grande Valsa) , Import , All Regions

Staring: Luise Rainer , Fernand Gravey
Director: Julien Duvivier
The Great Waltz DVD Brazilian Pressing DVD . All Regions NTSC, Sound in English with Optional Portuguese subtitles ,easy to turn off.~~~~Johann Strauss II was a gifted amateur composer who worked in a bank. Johann found that he was often distracted by the melodies in his head and would end up writing waltz instead of computing figures on company time. After he got fired, he decided to become a professional composer.

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The Great Ziegfeld [Blu-ray]

Staring: Luise Rainer , William Powell
Director: Robert Z. Leonard
Winner of three Academy Awards including Best Picture, The Great Ziegfeld stars William Powell in a biopic "suggested by romances and incidents in the life of America's greatest showman, Florenz Ziegfeld Jr." With admirable accuracy, the film follows Ziegfeld's career from small-time sideshow barker to creator of the famous Ziegfeld Follies, the collection of singing, dancing, and comedy vaudeville acts that launched the careers of such luminaries as Fanny Brice, Ray Bolger, and Harriet Hoctor, all of whom play themselves in the film. In the title role, Powell offers a believable combination of ambition and hucksterism, and his Thin Man costar Myrna Loy makes a late appearance as his second wife, but it's large-eyed Luise Rainer who has the showier role (and won an Oscar) as Ziegfeld's first big star and first wife. The musical numbers, however, don't hold up quite as well as the plot, and the film is overlong at 185 minutes. It's fascinating, though, to see the vintage stars performing, and the eight-minute spectacle "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" is an eye-popper, with an elaborate revolving set supporting a large cast singing and dancing to the Irving B...

The Great Ziegfeld

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: William Powell , Myrna Loy , Luise Rainer , Frank Morgan , Fanny Brice
Director: Robert Z. Leonard
Flo Ziegfeld's midway attraction isn't drawing flies. "How's business, Ziggy?" a rival taunts. This winner of three Academy Awards including Best Picture provides the career-chronicling answer. Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.'s business was good (with Broadway's legendary Follies and more), bad (including times the showman could scarcely rub two nickels together) and rarely lacking optimistic excess.Year: 19 Flo Ziegfeld's midway attraction isn't drawing flies. "How's business, Ziggy?" a rival taunts. This winner of three Academy Awards including Best Picture provides the career-chronicling answer. Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.'s business was good (with Broadway's legendary Follies and more), bad (including times the showman could scarcely rub two nickels together) and rarely lacking optimistic excess. Year: 1936

DVD Features:
Documentary
Newsreel
Scene Access

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Best Picture Oscar Collection - Musicals (My Fair Lady Special Edition / An American in Paris / The Broadway Melody of 1929 / Gigi / The Great Ziegfeld)

Rated: G (General Audience)
Staring: Leslie Caron , Maurice Chevalier , Audrey Hepburn , Rex Harrison , William Powell
Director: Charles Walters , George Cukor , Harry Beaumont , Robert Z. Leonard , Vincente Minnelli
American in paris: gigi: great ziegfeld: my fair lady (special edition): and broadway melody of 1929. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 02/08/2005

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The Gambler

Rated: R (Restricted)
Staring: Michael Gambon , Jodhi May , Polly Walker , Dominic West , Luise Rainer
Director: Károly Makk

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The Great Ziegfeld

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: William Powell , Myrna Loy , Luise Rainer , Frank Morgan , Fanny Brice
Director: Robert Z. Leonard
Flo Ziegfeld's midway attraction isn't drawing flies. "How's business, Ziggy?" a rival taunts. This winner of three Academy Awards including Best Picture provides the career-chronicling answer. Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.'s business was good (with Broadway's legendary Follies and more), bad (including times the showman could scarcely rub two nickels together) and rarely lacking optimistic excess.Year: 19 Flo Ziegfeld's midway attraction isn't drawing flies. "How's business, Ziggy?" a rival taunts. This winner of 3 Academy Awards(R) including Best Picture provides the career-chronicling answer. Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.'s business was good (with Broadway's legendary Follies and more), bad (including times the showman could scarcely rub two nickels together) and rarely lacking optimistic excess. Year: 1936 Director: Robert Z. Leonard Starring: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer

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The Good Earth

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Paul Muni , Luise Rainer , Walter Connolly , Tilly Losch , Charley Grapewin
Director: Roy Rowland
First came marriage, an arranged union of peasant farmer Wang Lung (Paul Muni) and kitchen slave O-Lan (Luise Rainer). Then, through poverty and wealth, family and betrayal, war and pestilence, came love.From Pearl S. Buck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Good Earth combines Wang and O-Lan's story with a sweeping saga of China in upheaval. Muni and Rainer had both won 1936 Academy Awards and Ra Movie DVD

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Tiefland

Rated: Unrated
Staring: Franz Eichberger , Max Holzboer , Maria Koppenhofer , Luise Rainer , Frida Richard
Director: Leni Riefenstahl
Set in early 20th century Germany and Spain, a melodrama about a dancer who becomes the romantic bone of contention between a humble shepherd and an imperious marquis.

A gypsy dancer played by Leni Reifenstahl herself. 12 years in the making.

The filming of "Tiefland" took place with long breaks between 1940 and the end of the war. In 1953, the French confiscated the material. The sound recording and the film editing could not take place until then.

"Tiefland" was Leni Riefenstahl's last feature film. 94 minutes, Language: German with English subtitles

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