∇
troperville

∇
tools

∇
toys

SubpagesMain

main index

Narrative

Genre

Media

Topical Tropes

Other Categories

new edits	workshops	reviews	YKTTW	tweets	random
to do	pm	add watch	drop watch	watchlist	profile

Subpages:

The Great Ziegfeld

I've got to have more steps. I need more steps. I've got to get higher. Higher.

—Florenz Ziegfeld

A 1936 Biopic about Broadway's most famous producer of his day. It is also a showcase for numbers from his most famous shows. And it won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

This film features examples of:

Character as Himself: Ray Bolger, Harriet Hoctor, and Fanny Brice, all veterans of the Ziegfeld Follies.
Costume Porn: Both on and off his stage shows.
Fake Nationality: Anna Held, who was born to French and Polish parents is played by German actress Luise Rainer.
Famous Last Words: The page quote; his last words were a bit different.
Oscar Bait
Pretty in Mink: His first wife wears and ermine muff, hat, and trimmed jacket. His second wife is given a chinchilla cape for Christmas.
Those Two Actors: William Powell as Ziegfeld, and Myrna Loy as Billie Burke, making this one of their first contributions that wasn't a Thin Man movie.