The Great Ziegfeld (1936)

Fairly interesting story of visionary showman Florenz Ziegfeld.  Well, I should say that it was interesting when it was actually telling the story -- but when I was forced to sit through numbers from the stage productions, it was the opposite of interesting while making the film at least an hour too long. There’s a reason those lavish costumes and banal musical extravaganzas finally died and it’s not because audiences were clamoring for more.

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