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Staring:
James Stewart,
Judy Garland,
Hedy Lamarr,
Lana Turner,
Tony Martin
Director:
Busby Berkeley, Robert Z. Leonard
Average Customer Rating:  
List Price: $19.98
Our Price: $5.89
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790789897
Format: Black & White, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0790789892
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2004-04-06
Running Time: 132
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1941-04-25 |
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Description
An elevator operator, a wife of a struggling concert violinist, a born-in-a-trunk vaudevillian: they're three different women on three different paths of life, yet they soon share one dream: to become a Ziegfeld Girl. Lana Turner, Hedy Lamarr and Judy Garland play the respective three trying for stardom in this sumptuous extravaganza. James Stewart adds to the star wattage, playing the jilted truck-driving beau of Turner's footlight diva. And legendary innovator Busby Berkeley brings his imaginative camerawork and pacing to numbers that include Garland's massively scaled and calypso-infused Minnie from Trinidad, plus a lavish, showgirl-revue finale that reprises the rhapsodic You Stepped Out of a Dream. Sweet dreams, movie fans.
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Great Musical, 2008-06-13
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.
awesome film!!, 2010-06-18
this film shows the true grandeur of Hollywood in the 1940s and how glamorous women were. This is truly one of the greatest Judy Garland musical films ever.
A pastiche of movie styles of the period, 2009-12-19
The format follows the careers of Judy Garland, Hedy Lamarr and Lana Turner during their first year as a Ziegfeld girl, with Edward Everett Horton and Paul Kelly as the managers of the Follies who are present in each sequence. Judy is drawn to Jackie Cooper, Lana to Jimmy Stewart and Hedy to Tony Martin. Jimmy and Lana act with body motions and changes of speaking pace, Hedy and Judy with expressive eyes, voice and hands. Rather than a musical comedy, this is a melodrama in which Tony and Judy have a musical extravaganza now and then directed by Busby Berkeley. There are five sequences, the fourth of which is the monumental musical extravaganza, and the other four of which describe the private lives of the showgirls.
Judy, Hedy and Lana sparkle on the Great White Way..., 2009-06-21
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, 2009-06-19
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"
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