The Great Ziegfeld
1936 film by Robert Zigler Leonard · Released 1936
The Great Ziegfeld is a 1936 American musical drama film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and produced by Hunt Stromberg. It stars William Powell as the theatrical impresario Florenz "Flo" Ziegfeld Jr., Luise Rainer as Anna Held, and Myrna Loy as Billie Burke. The film, shot at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios in Culver City, California in the fall of 1935, is a fictionalized and sanitized tribute to Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. and a cinematic adaptation of Broadway's Ziegfeld Follies, with highly elaborate costumes, dances and sets.
Cast ages at release (1936)
- Luise Rainer, as Anna Held: 25–26
- Myrna Loy, as Billie Burke: 30–31
- William Powell, as Florenz Ziegfeld Jr: 43–44
- Frank Morgan, as Jack Billings: 45–46
- Fanny Brice, as herself: 44–45
- Virginia Bruce, as Audrey Dane: 25–26
- Reginald Owen, as Sampson: 48–49
- Ray Bolger, as himself: 31–32
- Nat Pendleton, as Sandow: 40–41
- Harriet Hoctor, as herself: 30–31
- Herman Bing, as Costumer: 46–47
- Charles Judels, as Pierre: 53–54
- Dennis Morgan: 27–28
- William Demarest, as Gene Buck: 43–44
- Charles Trowbridge, as Julian Mitchell: 53–54
- Ernest Cossart, as Sidney: 59–60
- Joseph Cawthorn, as Dr. Ziegfeld: 67–68
- Mae Questel, as Rosie: 27–28
- Raymond Walburn, as Sage: 48–49
- Robert Greig, as Butler: 56–57
- Virginia Grey: 18–19
- Lynn Bari: 22–23