The 1968 Columbia Pictures film adaptation featuring Streisand reprising her role as Brice and Walter Pidgeon as Ziegfeld was the year's top-grossing movie. and Brice's son-in-law Ray Stark producing. The musical debuted on Broadway in 1964 with Barbara Streisand playing Brice, Roger DeKoven as Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. The stage musical Funny Girl depicts Fanny Brice's success with the Follies.

Ziegfeld Follies was awarded the 'Grand Prix de la Comedie Musicale' at the Cannes Film Festival in 1947, and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (black and white). In 1946 MGM released a third feature film based on Ziegfeld's shows titled Ziegfeld Follies with Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Lena Horne, William Powell (as Ziegfeld), Gene Kelly, Fanny Brice, Red Skelton, Esther Williams, Cyd Charisse, Lucille Ball, Kathryn Grayson, and others performing songs and sketches similar to those from the original Follies. According to modern sources, Turner's character was modeled after Ziegfeld Girl Lillian Lorraine, who suffered a drunken fall into the orchestra pit during an extravagant number. Charles Winninger, who had performed in the Follies of 1920, appeared as ' Ed Gallagher' with Gallagher's real-life partner, Al Shean to recreate the duo's famous song ' Mister Gallagher and Mister Shean'. Judy Garland was filmed on the top of the cake. Celebrated numbers from Ziegfeld Revues were recreated, including the famed 'Wedding Cake' set which had been used for Metro's earlier film, The Great Ziegfeld. In 1941 MGM released Ziegfeld Girl, starring Judy Garland, Lana Turner, Hedy Lamarr, James Stewart and Tony Martin. The show-stopper was the Irving Berlin-composed ' A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody', which, by itself, cost more to produce than one of Ziegfeld's entire stage shows. Featuring numbers by Ray Bolger, Dennis Morgan, Virginia Bruce, and Harriet Hoctor, the film gave a glimpse into what the Follies were really like. and co-starring Myrna Loy (as Ziegfeld's second wife Billie Burke), Luise Rainer (as Anna Held, which won her an Academy Award for Best Actress), and Frank Morgan as Jack Billings. In 1937, at the 9th Academy Awards, the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film, The Great Ziegfeld produced the previous year won the Best Picture (called 'Outstanding Production'), starring William Powell as Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. When the show toured, the 1934 edition was recorded in its entirety, from the overture to play-out music, on a series of 78 rpm discs, which were edited by the record producer David Cunard to form an album of the highlights of the production and which was released as a CD in 1997.įilms based on the Ziegfeld Follies New Amsterdam Theatre, New York The name was later used by other promoters in New York City, Philadelphia, and again on Broadway, with less connection to the original Follies.

Īfter Ziegfeld's death his widow, actress Billie Burke, authorized use of his name for Ziegfeld Follies in 19 to Jake Shubert, who then produced the Follies. Joseph Urban was the scenic designer for the Follies shows, starting in 1915, and Edward Royce directed the Follies in 19, in addition to several other Ziegfeld productions. The ' tableaux vivants' used in the revues were designed by Ben Ali Haggin from 1917 to 1925. The Ziegfeld Follies were also famous for their display of many beautiful chorus girls, commonly known as Ziegfeld Girls, who 'paraded up and down flights of stairs as anything from birds to battleships.' They usually wore elaborate costumes by designers such as Erté, Lady Duff-Gordon and Ben Ali Haggin. Fields, Eddie Cantor, Josephine Baker, Fanny Brice, Ann Pennington, Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay, Bob Hope, Will Rogers, Ruth Etting, Ray Bolger, Helen Morgan, Louise Brooks, Marilyn Miller, Ed Wynn, Gilda Gray, Nora Bayes and Sophie Tucker appeared in the shows. ĭuring the Follies era, many of the top entertainers, including W. The first follies, The Follies of 1907, was produced that year at the Jardin de Paris roof theatre. The Follies were a series of lavish revues, something between later Broadway shows and the more elaborate high class vaudeville and variety show.

The shows' producers were turn-of-the-twentieth-century producing titans Klaw and Erlanger. Inspired by the Folies Bergère of Paris, the Ziegfeld Follies were conceived and mounted by Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., reportedly at the suggestion of his then-wife, the actress and singer Anna Held.

They became a radio program in 19 as The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air.įounding and history Sheet music for a song from the 1919 Ziegfeld Follies The Ziegfeld Follies were a series of elaborate theatrical revue productions on Broadway in New York City from 1907 to 1931, with renewals in 1934, 1936, 1943, and 1957. Promotional artwork for 1912 Ziegfeld Follies For the film, see Ziegfeld Follies (film). This article is about the Ziegfeld Follies Broadway shows.

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