Ziegfeld Girl (film)

Ziegfeld Girl
Theatrical release poster
Directed byRobert Z. Leonard
Screenplay byMarguerite Roberts
Sonya Levien
Story byWilliam Anthony McGuire
Produced byPandro S. Berman
StarringJames Stewart
Judy Garland
Hedy Lamarr
Lana Turner
CinematographyRay June
Joseph Ruttenberg
Edited byBlanche Sewell
Music byHerbert Stothart
Production
company
Distributed byLoew's Inc.
Release date
  • April 25, 1941 (1941-04-25)
Running time
132 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1.5 million[1]
Box office$3.1 million[1]

Ziegfeld Girl is a 1941 American musical film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and starring James Stewart, Judy Garland, Hedy Lamarr, Lana Turner, Tony Martin, Jackie Cooper, Eve Arden, and Philip Dorn. The film, which features musical numbers by Busby Berkeley, was produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Set in the 1920s, the film tells the parallel stories of three women who become performers in the renowned Broadway show the Ziegfeld Follies. It was intended to be a 1938 sequel to the 1936 hit The Great Ziegfeld, and recycled some footage from the earlier film. Unlike that film and the later Ziegfeld Follies, Ziegfeld himself does not appear as a character.[2]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Mannix was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Green, Stanley (1999) Hollywood Musicals Year by Year (2nd ed.), pub. Hal Leonard Corporation ISBN 0-634-00765-3 page 102