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Original title The Great Ziegfeld
Film type Feature
Category Fiction
Director
Producer
Screenplay
Production country
Production company
Awards
Classification Suitable for all audiences
Dialogue
Swedish release 1936-10-16

Cast

William Powell
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.

Myrna Loy
Billie Burke

Luise Rainer
Anna Held

Frank Morgan
Billings

Fanny Brice (as Fannie Brice)
Fannie Brice

Virginia Bruce
Audrey Dane

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Titles

Original title
Swedish release title

Crew

Director
Screenplay
Producer
Director of Photography
Music
Choreography
Production Designer
Film Editor
Production Mixer
Assistant Director
Production Assistant
Unit Publicist
Musical Arrangement
Musical Director
Costume Designer
Make-up Supervisor
Wigs

Cast

William Powell Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.
Myrna Loy Billie Burke
Luise Rainer Anna Held
Frank Morgan Billings
Fanny Brice (as Fannie Brice) Fannie Brice
Virginia Bruce Audrey Dane
Reginald Owen Sampston
Ray Bolger Ray Bolger
Ernest Cossart Sidney
Joseph Cawthorn (as Joseph Cawthorne) Dr. Ziegfeld
Nat Pendleton Sandow
Harriet Hoctor Harriet Hoctor
Jean Chatburn Mary Lou
Paul Irving Erlanger
Herman Bing kund
Charles Judels Pierre
Marcelle Corday Marie
Raymond Walburn Sage
A.A. Trimble Will Rogers
Buddy Doyle Eddie Cantor

Companies

Production Company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp. controlled by Loew's Inc.
Copyright Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corporation 1936-04-19 LP6367
Distributor in Sweden (35 mm) Film AB Le Mat-Metro-Goldwyn 1936

Swedish censorship / rating

Censorship number 54111
Date 1937-02-01
Classification Suitable for all audiences
Original length 3319 meters


Censorship number 54111
Date 1936-10-28
Classification Suitable for all audiences
Original length 4196 meters


Censorship number 54111
Date 1936-07
Classification Suitable for all audiences
Original length 4970 meters
Notes Visningskopiorna nedklippta till 4820 m - 176 minuter.


Technical specifications

Aspect ratio 1.37:1
Sound type Sound
Sound system Western Electric Recording
Colour type Black and white
Carrier type 35 mm
Frames per second 24
Length in minutes 176 min
Reels 20 reels


Production location

1935-09-23 1935-12-05
1935-04-08 1935-04
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, 10202 W. Washington Boulevard Culver City, Kalifornien USA

Release dates

First showing 1936-03-22 Carthay Circle Theatre Los Angeles, Kalifornien USA 176 min
Release in Sweden 1936-10-16 Royal Stockholm Sweden 176 min
TV showing 1981-09-14 TV1 Sweden

Soundtrack listing

Original title Won't You Come and Play with Me
Composer Alfred Plumpton (18--)
Sung by Luise Rainer


Original title It's Delightful To Be Married
Composer Vincent Scotto (1907)
Lyrics Anna Held (1907)
Sung by Luise Rainer


Original title If You Knew Susie Like I Know Susie
Composer B.G. DeSylva (1925)
Joseph Meyer (1925)
Lyrics B.G. DeSylva (1925)
Joseph Meyer (1925)
Dancer Buddy Doyle
Sung by Buddy Doyle (som Eddie Cantor)


Original title Shine On, Harvest Moon
Composer Nora Bayes (1908)
Lyrics Jack Norworth (1908)
Sung by kör


Original title A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody
Composer Irving Berlin (1919)
Lyrics Irving Berlin (1919)
Sung by Allan Jones (dubbar Dennis Morgan)
kör
Virginia Bruce (repris)


Original title Un bel dí vedremo. Ur Madame Butterfly
Composer Giacomo Puccini (1904)
Lyrics Giuseppe Giacosa (italiensk text 1904)
Luigi Illica (italiensk text 1904)
Sven Nyblom (svensk text 1908)


Original title Liebestraum, piano, nr 3, op. 62
Composer Franz Liszt (1850)


Original title An der schönen blauen Donau, op. 314
Composer Johann Strauss d.y. (1867)


Original title Humoresque, piano, op. 101. Nr 7, Gess-dur
Composer Antonín Dvořák (1894)


Original title Vesti la giubba
Composer Ruggero Leoncavallo (1892)
Lyrics Ruggero Leoncavallo (1892)
Ernst Wallmark (svensk text 1893)


Original title Rhapsody in Blue
Composer George Gershwin (1924)


Original title You Gotta Pull Strings
Composer Walter Donaldson (1936)
Lyrics Harold Adamson (1936)
Sung by kör


Original title She's a Ziegfeld Follies Girl
Composer Walter Donaldson (1936)
Lyrics Harold Adamson (1936)
Sung by Ray Bolger
Dancer Ray Bolger


Original title You
Composer Walter Donaldson (1936)
Lyrics Harold Adamson (1936)
Sung by kör
Dancer kör


Original title You Never Looked So Beautiful
Composer Walter Donaldson (1936)
Lyrics Harold Adamson (1936)
Sung by Virginia Bruce
kör


Original title Yiddle on Your Fiddle (Play Some Ragtime)
Composer Irving Berlin (1909)
Lyrics Irving Berlin (1909)
Sung by Fanny Brice


Original title Queen of the Jungle
Composer Walter Donaldson (1936)
Lyrics Harold Adamson (1936)
Sung by Fanny Brice
kör


Original title Mon homme
Composer Maurice Yvain (1920)
Lyrics Albert Willemetz (fransk text 1920)
Channing Pollock (engelsk text 1920)
S.S. Wilson (svensk text 1953)
Jacques-Charles (fransk text 1920)
Sung by Fanny Brice (på engelska)
kör


Original title Look for the Silver Lining
Composer Jerome Kern (1920)
Lyrics B.G. DeSylva (1920)
Sung by William Powell
Robert Greig
William Demarest
Charles Trowbridge
Rosina Lawrence (repris)


Original title Waiting for the Robert E. Lee
Composer Lewis F. Muir (1912)
Lyrics L. Wolfe Gilbert (1912)
Dancer kör


Original title The Missouri Waltz
Composer John Valentine Eppel (1914)
Lyrics J.R. Shannon (1914)
Musical Arrangement Frederick Knight Logan (1914)
Dancer kör


Original title The Old Gray Mare
Dancer kör


Original title A Circus Must Be Different in a Ziegfeld Show
Composer Con Conrad (1936)
Lyrics Herb Magidson (1936)
Sung by kör
Dancer kör
Harriet Hoctor


Original title Ol' Man River
Composer Jerome Kern (1927)
Lyrics Oscar Hammerstein II (1927)


Original title March of the Musketeers
Composer Rudolf Friml (1928)
Lyrics Clifford Grey (1928)
P.G. Wodehouse (1928)
Sung by kör


Original title Makin' Whoopee
Composer Walter Donaldson (1928)
Lyrics Gus Kahn (1928)
Sung by kör


Original title The Washington Post
Composer John Philip Sousa (1889)


Original title Sobre las olas
Composer Juventino Rosas (1888)


Original title G'schichten aus dem Wienerwald, op. 325
Composer Johann Strauss d.y. (1868)


Original title La Marseillaise
Composer Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (1792)
Lyrics Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (fransk text 1792)
Edvard Fredin (svensk text 1889)
Performed by Charles Judels (piano - dubbad av ?)


Original title By the Beautiful Sea
Composer Harry Carroll (1914)
Lyrics Harold R. Atteridge (1914)


Original title Jingle Bells/One Horse Open Sleigh
Composer James L. Pierpont (1857)
Lyrics James L. Pierpont (engelsk text 1857)
Eric och Gösta = Eric Sandström & Gösta Westerberg (svensk text 1947)


Original title Einzug der Gladiatoren, op. 68
Composer Julius Fučík (1897)


Original title Rio Rita
Composer Harry Tierney (1927)
Lyrics Joseph McCarthy (1927)
Sung by kör


Original title Tulip Time
Composer Dave Stamper (1919)
Lyrics Gene Buck (1919)
Sung by kör


Original title It's Been So Long
Composer Walter Donaldson (1935)
Lyrics Harold Adamson (1935)


Original title After the Ball
Composer Charles K. Harris (1892)
Lyrics Charles K. Harris (1892)
Ernst Wallmark (svensk text)
Sung by kör


Original title The Streets of Cairo, or The Poor Little Country Maid
Composer Sol Bloom (1893)
Lyrics James Thornton (1896)


Original title Three Blind Mice
Sung by Charles Judels (här texten: Twenty Gallons of Milk)


Original title Someone Loves You After All
Composer Harry Tierney (1923)
Lyrics Joseph McCarthy (1923)


Awards

Academy Award of Merit Los Angeles 1937 (bästa film/Best Picture)
Los Angeles 1937 Luise Rainer (bästa kvinnliga huvudroll/Best Actress in a Leading Role)

Holdings Posters

Size About 70 x 100 cm
Quantity 2


Size Smaller than 40 x 75 cm
Quantity 1


Holdings Scripts

Script type Cutting continuity
Language English


Holdings Stills

Black and white print SET
Album No


Holdings Promotion materials

Type Program/Reklamtryck


Type Program folio



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