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The Great Ziegfeld

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The Great Ziegfeld is a 1936 American musical drama film directed by Robert Z. Leonard, starring William Powell as theatrical producer Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. alongside Luise Rainer as Anna Held and Myrna Loy as Billie Burke. It follows Ziegfeld's rise in show business, from promoting the strongman Eugen Sandow at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair through creating the Ziegfeld Follies stage revues, to his financial ruin after the 1929 stock market crash. The film won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 9th Academy Awards in 1937, along with Best Actress for Rainer and Best Dance Direction.

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Original Language
English 1
Award
Academy Award for Best Actress 2
Award
Academy Award for Best Picture 2
Release Year
1936 3
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Source The Great Ziegfeld (Wikipedia)
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1. Wikipedia
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2. The Great Ziegfeld (Wikidata)
  • Wikidata P166: Academy Award for Best Actress
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Academy Award for Best Actress.
  • Wikidata P166: Academy Award for Best Picture
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Academy Award for Best Picture.
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3. The Great Ziegfeld (Wikipedia)
  • Infobox
    March 22, 1936 (Los Angeles, premiere)
  • The Great Ziegfeld, lead paragraph (Wikipedia), original language
    The Great Ziegfeld is a 1936 American musical drama film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and produced by Hunt Stromberg.
  • In Medium: Film, Article lead sentence
    The Great Ziegfeld is a 1936 American musical drama film directed by Robert Z.
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