Ziegfeld Girl (film)

Ziegfeld Girl
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Robert Z. Leonard
Produced by Pandro S. Berman
Written by William Anthony McGuire (story)
Marguerite Roberts (screenplay)
Sonya Levien (screenplay)
Starring James Stewart
Judy Garland
Hedy Lamarr
Lana Turner
Music by Herbert Stothart
Cinematography Ray June
Joseph Ruttenberg
Edited by Blanche Sewell
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • April 25, 1941 (1941-04-25) (U.S.)
  • July 26, 1958 (1958-07-26) (U.S.)
  • December 7, 1969 (1969-12-07) (U.S.)
  • May 2, 1982 (1982-05-02) (U.S.)
  • January 21, 1997 (1997-01-21) (U.S.{re-releases))
Running time
 132 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $1,468,000[1]
Box office $3,101,000[1]

Ziegfeld Girl is a 1941 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical film starring James Stewart, Judy Garland, Hedy Lamarr, Lana Turner, Tony Martin, Jackie Cooper, Eve Arden, and Philip Dorn. The film was directed by Robert Z. Leonard and featured musical numbers by Busby Berkeley.

Set in the 1920s, the film tells the parallel stories of three women who become performers in the renowned Broadway show the Ziegfeld Follies. It was intended to be a 1938 sequel to the 1936 hit The Great Ziegfeld, and recycled some footage from the earlier film.

Synopsis

The story deals with three showbiz hopefuls - Susan Gallagher (Judy Garland), Sandra Kolter (Hedy Lamarr) and Sheila Regan (Lana Turner) - and their efforts to attain the lofty status of "Ziegfeld girls."[2]

Every year Florenz Ziegfeld stages a new edition of his lavish Broadway revue, the Ziegfeld Follies, and, as every year, he's looking for new talents. Among the others, are employed three young girls: Sandra, a European beauty, Sheila, a spicy American beauty without artistic experience and Susan, a young girl who comes from the hard school of vaudeville, a daughter of art. The three hopefuls have a hard time with the world of Broadway, discovering that all that glitters is not gold.

It will end with Sandra who'll give up Broadway's world for the love of her husband, a violin virtuoso. Sheila will remain crushed by the mirage of Luxury Park Avenue: addicted to alcohol, she'll be dismissed even from her beau. The only one who'll make a career will be Susan, who demonstrates that, even to go down The Ziegfeld stairs, it must take talent and it's not strictly necessary to be beautiful.

Cast

Musical Numbers

Judy Garland singing "Minnie From Trinidad" in Ziegfeld Girl
  1. "Overture" — played by Orchestra and sung by Chorus
  2. "Laugh? I Thought I'd Split My Sides" (music and lyrics by Roger Edens)— sung and danced by Judy Garland and Charles Winninger
  3. "You Stepped Out of a Dream" (music by Nacio Herb Brown, Lyrics by Gus Kahn) — sung by Tony Martin and Chorus
  4. "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" (music by Harry Carroll, lyrics by Joseph McCarthy)— sung by Judy Garland
  5. "Caribbean Love Song" (music by Edens, lyrics by Ralph Freed)— sung by Tony Martin and Chorus
  6. "Minnie from Trinidad" (Edens) — sung by Chorus and danced by Antonio and Rosario, then sung and danced by Judy Garland and Chorus
  7. "Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean" — performed by Charles Winninger and Al Shean
  8. "Ziegfeld Girls/You Gotta Pull Strings" (Edens)— sung by Judy Garland and Chorus
  9. "You Stepped Out of a Dream (reprise)" — sung by Tony Martin
  10. "You Never Looked So Beautiful" (music by Walter Donaldson, lyrics by Harold Adamson)— sung by Judy Garland and Chorus

Deleted song

A musical number sung by Judy Garland, "We Must Have Music", was deleted from the final film. Only a fragment survives, as it was used in an MGM short A New Romance of Celluloid: We Must Have Music (1942).[3][4][5]

Box office

Lana Turner, Judy Garland and Hedy Lamarr as three aspiring Ziegfeld girls

According to MGM records the film earned $1,891,000 in the US and Canada and $1,210,000 elsewhere resulting in a profit of $532,000.[1]

Accolades

The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:

References

  1. 1 2 3 The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study .
  2. ↑ "Ziegfeld Girl - Cast, Reviews, Summary, and Awards - AllRovi". Allmovie.com. 2011-10-24. Retrieved 2011-11-07.
  3. ↑ Early Judy Garland Rarities on YouTube; see 9:35 time mark
  4. ↑ Judy Garland - We Must Have Music (deleted from Ziegfeld Girl, 1941) on YouTube
  5. ↑ We Must Have Music (documentary of movie music) on YouTube
  6. ↑ "AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals Nominees" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-08-13.
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