The Great Ziegfeld

The Great Ziegfeld is a 1936 American musical drama film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and produced by Hunt Stromberg. It stars William Powell as the theatrical impresario Florenz Flo Ziegfeld, Jr., Luise Rainer as Anna Held, and Myrna Loy as Billie Burke.

The son of a highly respected music professor, Florenz Flo Ziegfeld, Jr. yearns to make his mark in show business. He begins by promoting Eugen Sandow, the worlds strongest man, at the 1893 Chicago Worlds Fair, overcoming the competition of rival Billings and his popular attraction, belly dancer Little Egypt, with savvy marketing allowing women to feel Sandows muscles.Ziegfeld returns to his father and young Mary Lou at the Chicago Musical College, and departs to San Francisco, where he and Sandow are deemed frauds for putting on a show in which Sandow faces a lion who falls asleep as soon as it is let out of the cage. Flo travels to England on an ocean liner, where he runs into Billings again who is laughing at a newspaper article denouncing him as a fraud. ........

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