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The Great Ziegfeld is a 1936 American musical and drama film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and produced by Hunt Stromberg. It stars William Powell as the theatrical impresario Florenz "Flo" Ziegfeld Jr., Luise Rainer as Anna Held, and Myrna Loy as Billie Burke.
After Ziegfeld's death his widow, actress Billie Burke, authorized use of his name for Ziegfeld Follies in 1934 and 1936 to Jake Shubert, who then produced the Follies. The name was later used by other promoters in New York City, Philadelphia, and again on Broadway, with less connection to the original Follies. These later efforts failed miserably. When the show toured, the 1934 edition was recorded in its entirety, from the overture to play-out music, on a series of 78 rpm discs, which were edited by the record producer David Cunard to form an album of the highlights of the production and which was released as a CD in 1997.
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Inspired by the Folies Bergère of Paris, the Ziegfeld Follies were conceived and mounted by Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., reportedly at the suggestion of his then-wife, the stage actress and singer Anna Held. The shows' producers were turn-of-the-twentieth-century producing titans Klaw & Erlanger. The Follies were a series of lavish revues, something between later Broadway shows and the more elaborate high class vaudeville and variety show. The first Follies was produced in 1907 at the roof theatre Jardin de Paris. During the Follies era, many of the top entertainers, including W. C. Fields, Eddie Cantor, Josephine Baker, Fanny Brice, Ann Pennington, Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay, Bob Hope, Will Rogers, Ruth Etting, Ray Bolger, Helen Morgan, Louise Brooks, Marilyn Miller, Ed Wynn, Gilda Gray, Nora Bayes and Sophie Tucker appeared in the shows.
The Ziegfeld Follies was a series of elaborate theatrical revue productions on Broadway in New York City from 1907 to 1931, with renewals in 1934 and 1936. They became a radio program in 1932 and 1936 as The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air.
Ziegfeld girl Ziegfeld Girls were the chorus girls and show girls from Florenz Ziegfeld's theatrical Broadway revue spectaculars known as the Ziegfeld Follies (1907– 1931), in New York City, which were based on the Folies Bergère of Paris. These showgirls followed on the heels of the Florodora girls, who had started to "loosen the corset" of the Gibson Girl in the early years of the 20th century. These beauties, decked out in Erté designs, gained many young male admirers and became objects of popular adoration. Over the years, the Ziegfeld girls included many future stars such as Marion Davies, Paulette Goddard, Joan Blondell, Olive Thomas, Jeanne Eagels, Barbara Stanwyck, Billie Dove, Louise Brooks, Nita Naldi, Julanne Johnston, Mae Murray, Dorothy Mackaill, Odette Myrtil, Lilyan Tashman, Claire Dodd, Cecile Arnold, Dolores Costello, Dorothy Sebastian, Juliette Compton, Mary Nolan, Iris Adrian, Annette Bade, and other society and business successes such as Peggy Hopkins Joyce, Helen Gallagher, Anastasia Reilly Sybil Carmen, and Irene Hayes.
East side of Longacre Square (today called Times Square), at 44th Street, with Hammerstein's Olympia entertainment complex occupying the blockfront from 44th to 45th Streets. Ziegfeld Follies of 1912 at the Moulin Rouge.
The New Amsterdam Theatre, at 214 West 42nd Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues in the Theatre District of Manhattan, New York City, was built in 1902-1903 and was designed by Herts & Tallant in the Beaux-Arts style; The Roof Garden, no longer extant, was added in 1904. For many years the theatre was the home of the Ziegfeld Follies, George White's "Scandals" and Eva LeGallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre. It was used as a movie theatre beginning in 1937, closed in 1985, then was bought by the Disney Corporation and renovated by Hardy Holzman Pfeifer in 1995-97 to be the flagship for Disney's theatrical presentations on Broadway. Both the exterior and the Art Nouveau interior – which features murals by George Peixotto and Robert Blum as well as tiles by Henry Mercer – are NYC landmarks. (Sources: Guide to NYC Landmarks(4th ed.) and AIA Guide to NYC (4th ed.)) This image shows the theatre building as seen from the 9th floor of the New 42nd Street Building.
Follies Follies of 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910 at the Jardin de Paris Ziegfeld Follies of 1911 at the Jardin de Paris Ziegfeld Follies of 1912 at the Moulin Rouge Ziegfeld Follies of 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920 at the New Amsterdam Theatre Ziegfeld Follies of 1921 at the Globe Theatre Ziegfeld Follies of 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1927 at the New Amsterdam Theatre Ziegfeld Follies of 1931 at the Ziegfeld Theatre Ziegfeld Follies of 1934 at the Winter Garden Theatre Ziegfeld Follies of 1936 at the Winter Garden Theatre Ziegfeld Follies of 1943, 1957 at the Winter Garden Theatre
Photograph of the Ziegfeld Theatre, 1341 6th Avenue, New York City. Copyrighted in 1931, but the sign Show Boat indicates that the photograph was taken December 27, 1927 – May 4, 1929, during the run of that show; more information here
Theater District, Midtown, Manhattan, New York City
Broderick (left) in Honeymoon in Bali (1939)
Mlle. Dazie, 3 October 1908, in a New York Star photograph by Otto Sarony Daisy Ann Peterkin (September 16, 1884 – August 12, 1952), known by the stage name Mlle. Dazie, was an American vaudeville and Ziegfeld Follies dancer at the turn of the 20th century. She was a toe-dancer. She was born September 16, 1884 in St. Louis. Dazie's first appearance in vaudeville was as "Le Domino Rouge" in an act where she wore a red mask. After she got rid of the mask, she was billed as "Mlle. Dazie" and it was under this name that she appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies. She toured the B. F. Keith Circuit in a ballet pantomime, L'Amour d'Artiste, and headlined the Palace in 1917 in another ballet pantomime directed by Herbert Brenon.[2] She headlined The Garden of Punchinello ballet directed by Herbert Brenon at the Palace. She also appeared in La Belle Paree. Her last stage performance was in Aphrodite, in 1919
American stage and film actress Grace La Rue (23 April 1880)- (12 March 1956). Grace Larue, birth name Stella Gray, was an actress, dancer, and singer in Broadway theater, vaudeville and film. Larue was also a song composer. Grace La Rue (born Stella Parsons; April 23, 1882 – March 13, 1956) was an American actress, singer, and vaudeville headliner. La Rue began her career as a teenager, working with a traveling tent show. Her later performances included being part of the team Burke and La Rue, with her first husband, Charles Burke.[1] One of their numbers was a minstrel piece titled "Grace La Rue and her Inky Dinks". She soon broke away from the act - and Burke - to appear in musical comedy. La Rue performed in a number of productions on Broadway debuting in The Tourists in 1906. She also appeared in The Blue Moon (1906), Molly May (1910), Betsy (1911), and the 1907 and 1908 Ziegfeld Follies.[2] In 1909, she married Byron (The Millionaire Kid) Chandler in Bennington, Vermont.
Costello with husband John Barrymore and their children, John Drew and Dolores, 1934
Doris Eaton Travis in April 2010, a month before her death, aged 106
Dove was born Bertha Eugenie Bohny in New York City in 1903 to Charles and Bertha (née Kagl) Bohny,[5] both immigrants from Switzerland. She had a younger brother, Charles Reinhardt Bohny (1906-1963). As a teen, she worked as a model to help support her family and was hired as a teenager by Florenz Ziegfeld to appear in his Ziegfeld Follies Revue. She legally changed her name to Lillian Bohny in the early 1920s and moved to Hollywood, where she began appearing in silent films. She soon became one of the more popular actresses of the 1920s, appearing in Douglas Fairbanks' smash hit Technicolor film The Black Pirate (1926), as Rodeo West in The Painted Angel (1929), and The American Beauty (1927).
Lobby card for the American comedy film Broadway After Dark (1924).
Billy Burke
Burke in the Broadway production of Arthur Wing Pinero's The "Mind the Paint" Girl (1912)
