Sentences with phrase «ziegfeld follies»

Models adorned in jewels and couture gowns, literary giants of the era, and Broadway actors and Ziegfeld Follies dancers: the subject matter is as sensational as the Jazz Age itself.

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She is the sole provider for her mother, a farm girl who had a brief and glamorous career with the Ziegfeld Follies, and her lovely, severely disabled sister.

Anna is devoted to her severely disabled sister, Lydia, as is her beautiful mother, a Minnesota farm girl who made her way to New York and the Ziegfeld Follies.

3:00 pm — TCM — Ziegfeld Follies A plotless film, intended to recreate the revue - style musical show that Ziegfeld was so well known for in the early days of Broadway.

Cover Girl (Charles Vidor)-- 18, 1944 The Clock (Vincente Minnelli)-- 9, 1945 Ziegfeld Follies (Vincente Minnelli)-- 30, 1945 Easter Parade (Charles Walters)-- 15, 1948 Take Me Out to the Ballgame (Busby Berkeley)-- 30, 1949

For musical fans, a couple of not - quite - classic but still enjoyable MGM productions: Ziegfeld Follies on Tuesday and Broadway Melody of 1936 on Sunday.

10:15 am — TCM — Ziegfeld Follies Rather than go the biopic route to exploit Ziegfeld and their cast of thousands (oh, wait, they already did that with The Great Ziegfeld 10 years earlier), MGM instead modeled Ziegfeld Follies after an actual Ziegfeld show — it's basically just a series of sketches and musical sequences in revue format.

When the family act split up in the 1920s, Shaw became a headliner in the Ziegfeld Follies.

One of the better exponents of that pre-code specialty, the tough (and tough - talking) blonde, Texas - born Noel Francis had been in the 1926 edition of the Ziegfeld Follies and appeared opposite the comedy team of Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey in Rio Rita (1927) when signed by Fox in Hollywood.

While I was sick I watched some technicolor movies (like Ziegfeld Follies and Blithe Spirit) and the vivid color palettes were completely inspiring.

Horne is connected to Lucille Ball because they — along with Judy Garland and Gene Kelly — were in the Ziegfeld Follies.

Not exact matches

Ostensibly a recreation of the Follies of Broadway fame, and starring William Powell reprising his role as Ziegfeld from 1936's The Great Ziegfeld in a very thin frame device, this is really just a series of sketches and musical numbers with no connecting material whatsoever.

There was also the name in the title; I didn't know much about «Ziegfeld» except that the name was often followed by «Follies» to refer to a kind of stage spectacle I couldn't care less about.