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Release Date: 1945

Cast: Fanny Brice, Kathryn Grayson, Keenan Wynn, Lena Horne, Gene Kelly, Edward Arnold, Virginia O'Brien, Victor Moore, Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, William Frawley, Judy Garland ...MORE

Cast: Fanny Brice, Kathryn Grayson, Keenan Wynn, Lena Horne, Gene Kelly, Edward Arnold, Virginia O'Brien, Victor Moore, Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, William Frawley, Judy Garland, Lucille Ball, William Powell, Esther Williams, Red Skelton, Lucille Bremer, Hume Cronyn, Robert Lewis ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Comedy, Musical, Musical comedy

Ziegfeld Follies (MGM) is a 1945 Hollywood musical comedy film directed by Lemuel Ayers, Roy Del Ruth, Robert Lewis, Vincente Minnelli, Merrill Pye, George Sidney and Charles Waters. It stars many of MGM leading talents, including Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Lucille Bremer, Fanny Brice (the only member of the ensemble that was a star of the original Follies), Judy Garland, Kathryn Grayson, Lena Horne, Gene Kelly, James Melton, Victor Moore, William Powell, Red Skelton, and Esther Williams. Producer Arthur Freed wanted to create a film along the lines of the Ziegfeld Follies Broadway shows... MORE

Ziegfeld Follies (MGM) is a 1945 Hollywood musical comedy film directed by Lemuel Ayers, Roy Del Ruth, Robert Lewis, Vincente Minnelli, Merrill Pye, George Sidney and Charles Waters. It stars many of MGM leading talents, including Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Lucille Bremer, Fanny Brice (the only member of the ensemble that was a star of the original Follies), Judy Garland, Kathryn Grayson, Lena Horne, Gene Kelly, James Melton, Victor Moore, William Powell, Red Skelton, and Esther Williams. Producer Arthur Freed wanted to create a film along the lines of the Ziegfeld Follies Broadway shows and so the film is composed of a sequence of unrelated lavish musical numbers and comedy sketches. Although produced in 1944-45, it was released in 1946, to considerable critical and box-office success. The film was entered into the 1947 Cannes Film Festival. Dance director was Robert Alton, Astaire's second-most-frequent choreographic collaborator after Hermes Pan. All of Astaire's numbers were directed by Vincente Minnelli. LESS