Directed by:
Robert Z. LeonardScreenplay:
William Anthony McGuireComposer:
Arthur LangeCast:
William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer, Frank Morgan, Fanny Brice, Virginia Bruce, Reginald Owen, Ray Bolger, Ernest Cossart, Joseph Cawthorn, Nat Pendleton (more)VOD (3)
Plots(1)
Ziegfeld begins his career as a sideshow barker and works his way to becoming the Broadway impresario extraordinaire. He marries temperamental actress Anna Held, but their relationship is too turbulent to last. Later, he marries another actress, Billie Burke and, after enduring many dark days, finds fame with four simultaneous Broadway hits. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Mary Halsey
USA
Best movies:
The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
Nevada (1944)
The Merry Widow (1934)
Raymond Brown
USA
Best movies:
Fury (1936)
Bullets or Ballots (1936)
The Thin Man (1934)
Wallis Clark
UK
Best movies:
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
It Happened One Night (1934)
Ann Gillis
USA
Best movies:
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)
Edison, the Man (1940)
Bambi (1942)
Robert Greig
Australia
Best movies:
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
You Can't Take It with You (1938)
Tales of Manhattan (1942)
Richard Tucker
USA
Best movies:
Shall We Dance? (1937)
Wings (1927)
Test Pilot (1938)
Shep Houghton
USA
Best movies:
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Libby Taylor
USA
Best movies:
Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)
Libeled Lady (1936)
The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
Adrienne D'Ambricourt
France
Best movies:
Casablanca (1942)
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
The Song of Bernadette (1943)
Phil Tead
USA
Best movies:
20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)
The Front Page (1931)
The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
Grace Hayle
USA
Best movies:
The Great Dictator (1940)
Carefree (1938)
Birth of the Blues (1941)
Marcelle Corday
Belgium
Best movies:
Flesh and the Devil (1926)
The Scarlet Letter (1926)
Dead End (1937)
Ruth Gillette
USA
Best movies:
In a Lonely Place (1950)
San Francisco (1936)
Saratoga (1937)
David Burns
USA
Best movies:
Deep in My Heart (1954)
It's Always Fair Weather (1955)
The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
Suzanne Kaaren
USA
Best movies:
The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
Angel (1937)
The Cotton Club (1984)
Edna Callahan
USA
Best movies:
The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
42nd Street (1933)
Hans Moebus
Germany
Best movies:
Psycho (1960)
Edison, the Man (1940)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Bonnie Bannon
USA
Best movies:
Adam's Rib (1949)
The Flying Deuces (1939)
Tales of Manhattan (1942)
Byron Russell
Ireland
Best movies:
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
Esther Muir
USA
Best movies:
Fury (1936)
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
A Day at the Races (1937)