Ziegfeld Follies (1946)

"Highlights are...Astaire-Kelly dance...Horne's solo, Garland's "The Interview".  Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide

Editor's Note This MGM spectacular features many of the greatest stars of the theater and screen. A lavish salute to Broadway's most opulent producer.

	Fred Astaire
	Judy Garland
	Lena Horne
	Lucille Ball
	Albert Akst - Editor
	Arthur Freed - Producer
	Charles Rosher - Cinematographer
	George J. Folsey - Cinematographer
	Harry Warren - Original Music By
	John Murray Anderson, et. al. - Writer
	Lemuel Ayers, et. al. - Director
	Roger Edens - Original Music By

"Ziegfeld Follies of 1946": Some of Metro Goldwyn Mayer's greatest performers star in this lavish tribute to the late, one-of-a-kind Broadway producer Florenz Ziegfeld.| The film begins in heaven, with Ziegfeld imagining what one final, grand revue would look like. A series of musical and comedy sketches follow, each featuring MGM's top stars.| There's an opulent water ballet sequence starring Esther Williams, dances featuring Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, a comedy sketch with Red Skelton as a drunk television announcer, and much more. "Ziegfeld Follies" has something to entertain everyone. USA Today
"...The most stunning set-pieces pair Astaire and Lucille Bremer..." 07/08/1994 p.3D

New York Times
"[M]uch of the film's visual style seemed derived from Salvador Dali's fashionable dream paintings..." 04/25/2006 p.E3