Ziegfeld Follies

Presented as a lavish Broadway-style revue, Ziegfeld Follies imagines the famed impresario Florenz Ziegfeld looking on from heaven and assembling one more grand spectacle in the style that made his name. William Powell plays Ziegfeld, presiding over a programme of musical and variety numbers performed by some of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's most prominent stars. The film is a tribute to the producer whose revues dominated the New York stage in the early decades of the twentieth century.

Arthur Freed produced the picture for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, working with a team of directors that includes Vincente Minnelli alongside Lemuel Ayers, Roy Del Ruth, George Sidney, Robert Lewis and Charles Walters. It was Minnelli's second film as director, following Meet Me in St. Louis the previous year. The screenplay was written by David Freedman with Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane. Among the large cast are Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Lucille Bremer, Fanny Brice and Judy Garland, with twenty-five credited performers in all.

Made for about three million dollars and taking roughly five million worldwide, the film was a moderate return for the studio. On TMDB it holds a rating of 6 out of 10 from 59 votes, suggesting a mixed response from viewers. The film runs 110 minutes and mixes comedy with music.