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Ziegfeld Girl (1941)

Directed by Robert Z. Leonard, Busby Berkeley

Musical | Drama

Overview

Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl’s life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.

Rated NR | Length 132 minutes

Actors

Judy Garland | James Stewart | Hedy Lamarr | Lana Turner | Jackie Cooper | Tony Martin | Ian Hunter | Charles Winninger | Edward Everett Horton | Philip Dorn | Paul Kelly | Eve Arden | Dan Dailey | Al Shean | Fay Holden | Felix Bressart | Rose Hobart | Mae Busch | Bernard Nedell | Ed McNamara | Renie Riano | Josephine Whittell | Sergio Orta | Jimmy Ames | Roscoe Ates | Joan Barclay | Joyce Compton | Reed Hadley | Colin Kenny | James Flavin | Eddie Hall | Armand Kaliz | Alva Kellogg | Donald Kirke | Lois Lindsay | George Lloyd | Tom Mahoney | The Music Maids | George Noisom | Anne O'Neal | Ginger Pearson | Fred Santley | Larry Steers | Ray Teal | Ruth Tobey | Gayne Whitman | Tex Brodus | Shep Houghton | Barry Norton | Bess Flowers | Bert Moorhouse | James Conaty | King Baggot | Al Hill | Philip Morris | Elliott Sullivan | Bill Days | John Rarig | Max Smith | Dorothy Hoyle | Virginia Rees | Betty Van Allen | Helen Patterson | Rose Paidar | Christine Stafford | Myrna Dell | Louise La Planche | Harriet Bennett | Nina Bissell | Claire James | Dorothy Tuttle | Georgia Carroll | Jean Wallace | Madeline Martin | Frances Gladwin | Virginia Cruzon | Patricia Dane | Victoria Vinton | Vivian Mason | Anya Taranda | Amzie Strickland | Rebel Randall | Leslie Brooks | Irma Wilson

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

The story is so-so but the cast is fire. I suppose Judy Garland is the clear cut main star here but what a cast around her. Lana Turner gets a raw deal here. Usually musicals make me happy but this one left me a bit depressed. Also Hedy is in the third seat behind those two, which is fine as she was still rising at the time.

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