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Ziegfeld Follies (film)

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Ziegfeld Follies is a 1945 American musical-comedy film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and directed by Lemuel Ayers, Roy Del Ruth, Robert Lewis, Vincente Minnelli, Merrill Pye, George Sidney, and Charles Walters. [1]

65 relations: Academy Awards, AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals, Albert Akst, American Film Institute, Arthur Freed, Bosley Crowther, Broadway theatre, Charles Walters, Comedy film, Conrad Salinger, Cyd Charisse, Edward Arnold (actor), Esther Williams, Fanny Brice, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, George Folsey (cinematographer), George Gershwin, George Sidney, Great American Songbook, Greer Garson, Harry Warren, Hermes Pan, Hugh Martin, Hume Cronyn, Ira Gershwin, Jack Martin Smith, James Melton, Judy Garland, Katharine Hepburn, Kathryn Grayson, Kay Thompson, Keenan Wynn, Lena Horne, Lennie Hayton, Leo the Lion (MGM), Limehouse Blues (song), Lucille Ball, Lucille Bremer, Marion Bell, Merrill Pye, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Musical film, Outtake, Portrayal of East Asians in American film and theater, Ralph Blane, Red Skelton, Robert Alton, Robert Lewis (director), Roger Edens, ..., Roy Del Ruth, Safety pin, Stop motion, That's Entertainment, Part II, The Bronx, The New York Times, This Heart of Mine, Victor Moore, Vincente Minnelli, Virginia O'Brien, William Frawley, William Powell, YouTube, Ziegfeld Follies, 1947 Cannes Film Festival. Expand index (15 more) »

Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.

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AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals

Part of the AFI 100 Years… series, AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals is a list of the top musicals in American cinema.

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Albert Akst

Albert Akst (August 31, 1899 – 19 April 1958) was an American musician turned film editor, played saxophone in Meyer Davis Orchestra and on vaudeville until 1930.

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American Film Institute

The American Film Institute (AFI) is an American film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the motion picture arts in the United States.

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Arthur Freed

Arthur Freed (September 9, 1894 – April 12, 1973) was an American lyricist and Hollywood film producer.

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Bosley Crowther

Bosley Crowther (July 13, 1905 – March 7, 1981) was an American journalist and author who was film critic for The New York Times for 27 years.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.

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Charles Walters

Charles Walters (November 17, 1911 – August 13, 1982) was a Hollywood director and choreographer most noted for his work in MGM musicals and comedies in from the 1940s to the 1960s.

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Comedy film

Comedy is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humor.

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Conrad Salinger

Conrad Salinger (August 30, 1901, Brookline, Massachusetts – June 17, 1962, Pacific Palisades, California) was an American arranger, orchestrator and composer, who studied classical composition at the Paris Conservatoire.

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Cyd Charisse

Tula Ellice Charisse (née Finklea; March 8, 1922 – June 17, 2008), known professionally as Cyd Charisse, was an American dancer and actress.

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Edward Arnold (actor)

Edward Arnold (born Gunther Edward Arnold Schneider, February 18, 1890 – April 26, 1956) was an American actor.

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Esther Williams

Esther Jane Williams (August 8, 1921 – June 6, 2013) was an American competitive swimmer and actress.

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Fanny Brice

Fania Borach (October 29, 1891 – May 29, 1951), known professionally as Fanny Brice, was an American illustrated song model, comedienne, singer, theater, and film actress who made many stage, radio, and film appearances and is known as the creator and star of the top-rated radio comedy series The Baby Snooks Show.

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Fred Astaire

Fred Astaire (born Frederick Austerlitz; May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) was an American dancer, singer, actor, choreographer and television presenter.

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Gene Kelly

Eugene Curran Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996) was an American dancer, actor of film, stage, and television, singer, film director, producer, and choreographer.

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George Folsey (cinematographer)

George Joseph Folsey, A.S.C. (July 2, 1898 – November 1, 1988) was an American cinematographer who worked on 162 films between 1919 and his retirement in 1976.

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George Gershwin

George Jacob Gershwin (September 26, 1898 July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist.

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George Sidney

George Sidney (October 4, 1916May 5, 2002) was an American film director and film producer who worked primarily at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

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Great American Songbook

The Great American Songbook, also known as "American Standards", is the canon of the most important and influential American popular songs and jazz standards from the early 20th century.

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Greer Garson

Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson, CBE (29 September 1904 – 6 April 1996), was a British-American actress popular during the Second World War, being listed by the Motion Picture Herald as one of America's top-ten box office draws from 1942 to 1946.

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Harry Warren

Harry Warren (born Salvatore Antonio Guaragna, December 24, 1893 – September 22, 1981) was an American composer and lyricist.

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Hermes Pan

Hermes Pan (December 10, 1909 – September 19, 1990) was an American dancer and choreographer, principally remembered as Fred Astaire's choreographic collaborator on the famous 1930s movie musicals starring Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

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Hugh Martin

Hugh Martin (August 11, 1914 – March 11, 2011) was an American musical theater and film composer, arranger, vocal coach, and playwright.

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Hume Cronyn

Hume Blake Cronyn, Jr., OC (July 18, 1911 – June 15, 2003) was a Canadian-American actor of stage and screen, who enjoyed a long career, often appearing professionally alongside Jessica Tandy, his wife of over fifty years.

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Ira Gershwin

Ira Gershwin (6 December 1896 17 August 1983) was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century.

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Jack Martin Smith

Jack Martin Smith (January 2, 1911 - November 7, 1993) was a highly successful Hollywood art director with over 130 films to his credit and nine Academy Award nominations which ultimately yielded three Oscars.

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James Melton

James Melton (January 2, 1904 – April 21, 1961), a popular singer in the 1920s and early 1930s, later began a career as an operatic singer when tenor voices went out of style in popular music around 1932–35.

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Judy Garland

Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm; June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969) was an American singer, actress, and vaudevillian.

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Katharine Hepburn

Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American actress.

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Kathryn Grayson

Kathryn Grayson (February 9, 1922 – February 17, 2010) was an American actress and coloratura soprano.

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Kay Thompson

Kay Thompson (born Catherine Louise Fink; November 9, 1909"In the St. Louis Registry of Births, in the volume covering the period July 1909 – January 1910, on page 85, is the following entry: "Catherine Louise Fink, November 9, 1909.", kaythompsonwebsite.com; accessed July 26, 2015. – July 2, 1998) was an American author, singer, vocal arranger, vocal coach, composer, musician, dancer and actress.

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Keenan Wynn

Francis Xavier Aloysius James Jeremiah Keenan Wynn (July 27, 1916 – October 14, 1986) was an American character actor.

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Lena Horne

Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was an African American singer, dancer, actress, and civil rights activist.

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Lennie Hayton

Leonard George "Lennie" Hayton (February 14, 1908 – April 24, 1971) was an American musician, composer, conductor and arranger.

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Leo the Lion (MGM)

Leo the Lion is the mascot for the Hollywood film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and one of its predecessors, Goldwyn Pictures, featured in the studio's production logo, which was created by the Paramount Studios art director Lionel S. Reiss.

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Limehouse Blues (song)

"Limehouse Blues" is a popular British song written by the London-based duo of Douglas Furber (lyrics) and Philip Braham (music).

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Lucille Ball

Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989) was an American actress, comedian, model, film-studio executive, and producer.

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Lucille Bremer

Lucille Bremer (February 21, 1917 – April 16, 1996) was an American film actress and dancer.

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Marion Bell

Marion Bell (November 16, 1919 –December 14, 1997) was a singer and musical theatre performer best known for her role in the Broadway musical Brigadoon.

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Merrill Pye

Merrill Pye (August 14, 1902 – November 17, 1975) was an American art director.

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (initialized as MGM or hyphenated as M-G-M, also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or simply Metro, and for a former interval known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, or MGM/UA) is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of feature films and television programs.

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Musical film

The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing.

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Outtake

An outtake is a portion of a work (usually a film or music recording) that is removed in the editing process and not included in the work's final, publicly released version.

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Portrayal of East Asians in American film and theater

Portrayals of East Asians in American film and theatre has been a subject of controversy.

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Ralph Blane

Ralph Blane (July 26, 1914 – November 13, 1995) was an American composer, lyricist, and performer.

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Red Skelton

Richard "Red" Skelton (July 18, 1913September 17, 1997) was an American comedy entertainer.

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Robert Alton

Robert Alton (28 January 1906 – 12 June 1957) was an American dancer and choreographer, a major figure in dance choreography of Broadway and Hollywood musicals from the 1930s through to the early 1950s.

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Robert Lewis (director)

Robert Lewis (March 16, 1909 – November 23, 1997) was an American actor, director, teacher, author and founder of the influential Actors Studio in New York in 1947.

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Roger Edens

Roger Edens (November 9, 1905 – July 13, 1970) was a Hollywood composer, arranger and associate producer, and is considered one of the major creative figures in Arthur Freed's musical film production unit at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer during the "golden era of Hollywood".

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Roy Del Ruth

Roy Del Ruth (October 18, 1895, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – April 27, 1961) was an American film director.

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Safety pin

The safety pin is a variation of the regular pin which includes a simple spring mechanism and a clasp.

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Stop motion

Stop motion is an animated-film making technique in which objects are physically manipulated in small increments between individually photographed frames so that they appear to exhibit independent motion when the series of frames is played back as a fast sequence.

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That's Entertainment, Part II

That's Entertainment, Part II is a 1976 film by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and a sequel to the 1974 documentary That's Entertainment!.

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The Bronx

The Bronx is the northernmost of the five boroughs of New York City, in the U.S. state of New York.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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This Heart of Mine

"This Heart of Mine" is a 1946 song.

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Victor Moore

Victor Frederick Moore (February 24, 1876 – July 23, 1962) was an American actor of stage and screen, as well as a comedian, writer, and director, most significantly a major Broadway star from the late 1920s through the 1930s.

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Vincente Minnelli

Vincente Minnelli (February 28, 1903 – July 25, 1986) was an American stage director and film director, famous for directing such classic movie musicals as Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), Gigi (1958), The Band Wagon (1953), and An American in Paris (1951).

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Virginia O'Brien

Virginia Lee O'Brien (April 18, 1919 – January 16, 2001) was an American actress, singer, and radio personality known for her comedic roles in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musicals of the 1940s.

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William Frawley

William Clement Frawley (February 26, 1887 – March 3, 1966) was an American stage entertainer and screen and television actor best known for playing landlord Fred Mertz in the famous American television sitcom I Love Lucy and Bub in the television comedy series My Three Sons.

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William Powell

William Horatio Powell (July 29, 1892 – March 5, 1984) was an American actor.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.

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Ziegfeld Follies

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.

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1947 Cannes Film Festival

The 2nd Cannes Film Festival was held from 12 to 25 September 1947.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziegfeld_Follies_(film)

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