The Great Ziegfeld

Synopsis

 

William Powell as “The Great Ziegfeld”


The Great Ziegfeld

winner of Best Picture at the 1937 Academy Awards ceremony, is a sanitized chronicle of Florenz Ziegfeld’s life from his 1893 World’s Fair show to his 1932 death. In his heyday, Flo Ziegfeld produced extravagant stage revues and was Broadway’s biggest starmaker.