Ziegfeld Follies (film)
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| Directed by |
Lemuel Ayers Roy Del Ruth Robert Lewis Vincente Minnelli Merrill Pye George Sidney Charles Walters |
| Produced by | Arthur Freed |
| Written by | Charles Walters |
| Starring |
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 |
| Music by |
Roger Edens Lennie Hayton Conrad Salinger Harry Warren |
| Cinematography |
George Folsey Merrill Pye Jack Martin Smith |
| Edited by | Albert Akst |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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Running time
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110 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $3,403,000 |
| Box office | $5,344,000 |
Ziegfeld Follies is a 1946 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. It stars many of MGM leading talents, including Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Lucille Bremer, Fanny Brice (the only member of the ensemble who was a star of the original Follies), Judy Garland, Kathryn Grayson, Lena Horne, Gene Kelly, James Melton, Victor Moore, William Powell, Red Skelton, and Esther Williams.
Producer Arthur Freed wanted to create a film along the lines of the Ziegfeld Follies Broadway shows and so the film is composed of a sequence of unrelated lavish musical numbers and comedy sketches. Filmed in 1944, '45 and '46, it was released in 1946, to considerable critical and box-office success.
The film was entered into the 1947 Cannes Film Festival.
Dance director was Robert Alton, Astaire's second-most-frequent choreographic collaborator after Hermes Pan. All of Astaire's numbers were directed by Vincente Minnelli.
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