ZIEGFELD FOLLIES

Details

• Release Year: 1945
• Genre: Comedy, Musical
• Plot: Heaven’s harps and wings are nice, but what showman extraordinaire Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. wants most now that he’s no longer on Earth is to put on another extravaganza. It would have the brightest stars and creative talents. The most in glamour, gams and optimism. In short, it would be like Ziegfeld Follies. ; ; With a who’s who of credited and uncredited Hollywood talents, this all-star revue is heaven to fans of musicals. Fred Astaire dazzles once, twice…four numbers in all. Red Skelton reprises his funny Guzzler’s Gin skit. Esther Williams swims, Lena Horne sings, and Judy Garland spoofs snobbery. There’s Verdi opera and Fanny Brice vaudeville. Patter and pantomime. And The Babbitt and the Bromide, with Gene Kelly joining Astaire in their first-ever screen pairing. What a show! The man called Flo must be proud.
• Cast: Fred Astaire; Lucille Ball; Lucille Bremer; Fanny Brice; Judy Garland; Kathryn Grayson; Lena Horne; Gene Kelly; James Melton; Victor Moore; Red Skelton; Esther Williams; William Powell; Edward Arnold; Marion Bell; Cyd Charisse; Hume Cronyn; William Frawley; Robert Lewis; Virginia O'Brien; Keenan Wynn; Bunin's Puppets; Rod Alexander; Robert Ames; Gloria Joy Arden; Jean Ashton; Irene Austin; William Bailey; Juliette Ball; Bonnie Barlowe; James Barron; Eleanor Bayley; Judi Blacque; Lennie Bluett; Karin Booth; Norman Borine; Helen Boyce; Hazel Brooks; Ed Brown; Marie Bryant; Kathleen Cartmill; Lucille Casey; Jack Cavan; Elise Cavanna; Feodor Chaliapin Jr.; Naomi Childers; Milton Chisholm; Marilyn Christine; Charles Coleman; Aina Constant; Laura Corbay; Joseph Crehan; Dick D'Arcy; Elizabeth Dailey; William B. Davidson; Jack Deery; Dante DiPaolo; Frances Donelan; Natalie Draper; Eddie Dunn; Rita Dunn; Meredyth Durrell; Mary Jo Ellis; Rex Evans; Shawn Ferguson; Sam Flint; Jeanne Francis; Sean Francis; Jean French; Mary Jane French; Sam Garrett; Karen X. Gaylord; Sidney Gordon; David Gray; Aileen Haley; Carol Haney; Suzette Harbin; Avanelle Harris; Maggie Hathaway; Charles Hawkins; Bill Hawley; Harry Hayden; Doreen Hayward; Cleo Herndon; George Hill; Shirlee Howard; Don Hulbert; Charlotte Hunter; Virginia Hunter; Patricia Jackson; Margaret Kays; James King; Laura Knight; Laura Lane; Margaret Laurence; Peter Lawford; Harriet Lee; Dale Lefler; Eugene Loring; Charles Lunard; Herb Lurie; Patricia Lynn; Wilbur Mack; Melvin Martin; Matt Mattox; Bert May; Diane Meredith; Ruth Merman; Lorraine Miller; Joyce Murray; Janet Nevis; Ray Nyles; Helen O'Hara; Billy O'Shay; Garry Owen; Jack Purcell; Tommy Rall; Ellen Ray; Jane Ray; Dorothy Raye; Jack Regas; Beth Renner; Ricky Ricardi; Alex Romero; Noreen Roth; Billy Shead; Elaine Shepard; Silver; Melba Snowden; Walter Stane; Ronald Stanton; Ivon Starr; Larry Steers; Count Stefenelli; Wanda Stevenson; Grady Sutton; Ray Teal; Audrey Totter; Robert Trout; Dorothy Tuttle; Dorothy Van Nuys; Arthur Walsh; Robert Wayne; Eve Whitney; Kay Williams; Lemuel Ayers; Roy Del Ruth; Vincente Minnelli; George Sidney; Merrill Pye; Charles Walters; David Freedman; Hugh Martin; Ralph Blane; John Murray Anderson; Peter Barr; Guy Bolton; Allen Boretz; Irving Brecher; Eddie Cantor; Erik Charell; Harry Crane; Roger Edens; Devery Freeman; Everett Freeman; E.Y. Harburg; Lou Holtz; Cal Howard; Al Lewis; Max Liebman; Wilkie C. Mahoney; Jack McGowan; William Noble; James O'Hanlon; Samson Raphaelson; Philip Rapp; William Schorr; Joseph Schrank; Frank Sullivan; Kay Thompson; Harry Tugend; Billy K. Wells; George White; Edgar Allan Woolf; Joseph Erens; Edna Skelton
• Director: Lemuel Ayers
• Runtime: 1:57
• Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Turner Entertainment Company, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Warner Home Video, Warner Archive Collection
• Media Format: Movie