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(lyrics). [ Winter Garden Theatre , 1,348 perf.] Sitting in her Follies dressing room, Fanny Brice (Barbra Streisand ) reminisces about her career. Her thoughts wander back to the days when she was a gawky, stageâstruck young girl, to her first failure at Keeney's Music Hall, and her eventual success there. That success brings two men into her life, the great Broadway producer Florenz Ziegfeld , who sets about making her a star, and an attractive gambler, Nicky Arnstein (Sydney Chaplin ), whom she marries. Her career flourishes, although her marriage is destroyed by Arnstein's gambling and prison sentence. Notable songs Don't Rain on My Parade; People; You Are Woman; His Is the Only Music That Makes Me Dance. Despite some glaring faults in the script and its lack of historical accuracy, the show was made into an electric entertainment by its young star, Streisand. Ted Kalem of Time welcomed her as âthe theatre's new girl for all seasonsâ and described her as âan anthology of the awkward graces, all knees and elbows, or else a boneless wonder, a seal doing a balancing a (www.answers.com....funny-girl)
The musical is set in and around New York City just prior to and following World War I . Ziegfeld Follies star FannyBrice, awaiting the return of husband Nick Arnstein from prison, reflects on their life together, and their story is told as a flashback (www.answers.com....funny-girl)
Ziegfeld Girl (1941) (performer: &You Never Looked So Beautiful& (1936) (uncredited), &I'm Always Chasing Rainbows& (1918), &Laugh? I Thought I'd Split My Sides& (1941) (uncredited), &Ziegfeld Girl s& (1941) (uncredited), &You Gotta Pull Strings& (1936) (uncredited)) (&Minnie from Trinidad& (1941), &We Must Have Music& (1941) (uncredited) (us.imdb.com/name/nm0000023/)
Trivia: The unidentified two-strip technicolor sequences used to illustrate the Ziegfeld Follies were lifted out of Glorifying the American Girl (1929). The star of this film, also unidentified although frequently shown in the clips, was Mary Eaton , sister of interviewee Doris Eaton. more (us.imdb.com/title/tt0423623/)
The Judy Garland Signature Collection (A Star is Born / The Wizard of Oz / The Harvey Girls / Love Finds Andy Hardy / In the Good Old Summertime / Ziegfeld Girl / For Me and My Gal ) (us.imdb.com....032138/dvd)
The Wizard of Oz (1939), A Star Is Born (1954), The Harvey Girls (1946), For Me and My Gal (1942), Ziegfeld Girl (1941), In the Good Old Summertime (1949), Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938 (us.imdb.com....032138/dvd)
A girl looks at a poster outside a screening of "Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert" at the Ziegfeld theater Saturday, Feb. 2, 2008 in New York . (AP Photo/Gary He (news.aol.com....0409990001)
A girl looks at a poster outside a screening of "Hannah Montana Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert" at the Ziegfeld theater Saturday, Feb. 2, 2008 in New York . (AP Photo/Gary He (news.aol.com....5709990001)
A girl looks at a poster outside a screening of "Hannah Montana Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert" at the Ziegfeld theater Saturday, Feb. 2, 2008 in New York . (AP Photo/Gary He) (news.aol.com....4209990002)
Born in Santa Ana, California, John Raitt began performing professionally with the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera and was shortly thereafter signed to a contract with MGM, where he appeared in Flight Command, Billy the Kid and Ziegfeld Girl (noted.blogs.com....usic/life/)
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