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• A dead showman looks down upon the earth and dreams of his perfect show.Running Time: 110 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: MUSIC DVD Rating: NR Age: 012569678590 UPC: 012569678590 Manufacturer No: 67859
| | | Product Details: | | | Actors:
| Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Judy Garland, Fanny Brice, Red Skelton | | Format:
| Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Original recording remastered, Subtitled, NTSC | | Language:
| English | | Subtitle:
| English, Spanish, French | | Number of Discs:
| 1 | | Studio:
| Warner Home Video | | Run Time:
| 117 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| April 25, 2006 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 35 reviews |
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0 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Ziegfeld FolliesSep 08, 2009
A number of the popular stars of the '40's (Judy Garland, Lena Horne, Frank Sinatra, Red Skelton, etc.) are given invidivdual performance numbers in this film. If you're interested in that period, you would enjoy the flim. If you're more familiar with more modern entertainers, you might not find it as interesting.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 What a Masterpiece!Aug 29, 2009
I grew up watching my Grandparent's VHS copy so was thrilled to see that Ziegfeld Follies is now on DVD! The cover is quite different to that of the Bill Collins VHS but the quality of the film itself is remarkable. Watch it on Widescreen if you can, it is absolutely beautiful!
Not only are there songs like 'This Heart of Mine' by Fred Astaire (with gorgeous choreographing to match), 'Love' by Lena Horne and a catchy up-tempo number by Judy Garland, but you'll also see some catchy comedy songs like 'The Babbit and the Bromide' with Gene Kelly, 'Bring On Those Wonderful Men' (Virginia O'Brien) and some hilarious skits starring Fanny Brice and Red Skelton. This really is a true gem for fans of all ages!!! 10/10.
0 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Thanks to the miracles of DVDAug 18, 2009
Completely forgettable films can be resurrected and beautifully restored. Wow, is this awful. While not uniformly disastrous, it is boring, unfunny, poorly acted, over-produced, weirdly lit, and musically lame. (Except for the glorious La Traviata, but that is badly sung and bizarrely staged.) There is some good dancing (and some frightfully bad dancing) and a weak laugh or two in a couple of comedy sections, but I will be passing this along somewhere.....just gotta figure out who!
I bought this as an Astaire fan. He is certainly has all the highlights in this, but small highlights they are. Not worth much.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
An un-movieJul 23, 2009
This isn't a movie at all, by any usual definition. Rather it's a series of grossly over-produced musical and dance extravaganzas, interspersed with stale and mostly un-funny comedy bits. If you like Hollywood excess at its most excessive, this is for you.
For decades Flo Ziegfeld dominated the pretty girl, funny men area of show business, presenting his shows at the New Amsterdam theater on 42nd Street, just off Broadway and Times Square. Among his comic stars were W.C. Fields, Will Rogers and Fanny Brice. By all accounts, however, what marked his shows were pretty show girls in very fancy costumes. However, there were serious constraints: the theater stage was not all that big. Hollywood had no such constraint; thus, the movie presents a Follies that never existed and never could have existed: underwater ballet, instant costume changes impossible in live theater, enormous sets that fit only on a sound stage.
I repeat: if you like excess, the movie is for you. But it ain't what Florenz Ziegfeld did.
Zegfeld FolliesApr 22, 2009
Loaded with Tons of Talent - Why don't they make great Musicals, and Comedy scetches like this anymore..Thank you Hollywood for a great Movie.
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