Ziegfeld Follies (1945)

Directors

Charles Walters, George Sidney, Lemuel Ayers, Merrill Pye, Robert Lewis, Roy Del Ruth, Vincente Minnelli

Cast

Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Lucille Bremer, Fanny Brice, Judy Garland, Lena Horne, Gene Kelly, Red Skelton, Esther Williams, William Powell, Kathryn Grayson

The story

The camera pans over a Heaven somewhere beyond the clouds. The residences of great showmen gone to their eternal reward are shown: Shakespeare, whose home looks like the Globe Theater; P.T.Barnum, whose residence in the afterlife resembles a circus Big Top; and Florenz Ziegfeld, whose home's entrance is reminiscent of the theater where he staged the Ziegfeld Follies on Broadway. Talking to the audience, Ziegfeld guides the viewers along a wall with three-dimensional paintings or shadow boxes containing dolls that look like the stars he cast in his productions over the years and the audiences who attended them.

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