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    in 1932 and 1936 as The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air. Inspired by the Folies Bergère of Paris, the Ziegfeld Follies were conceived and mounted by Florenz...
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  • Follies Girl is a 1943 American musical comedy film directed by William Rowland and starring Wendy Barrie, Doris Nolan and Gordon Oliver. It was made by...
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    known as the Ziegfeld Follies. When Ziegfeld's Follies began in 1907, advertisements for the show noted the "Ziegfeld Beauty Girls," along with other groups...
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  • home to a musical revue (based on the Ziegfeld Follies). The evening follows a reunion of the Weismann Girls who performed during the interwar period. Several...
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    Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. (category Ziegfeld Follies)
    press. Ziegfeld's stage spectaculars, known as the Ziegfeld Follies, began with Follies of 1907, which opened on July 7, 1907, and were produced annually...
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  • 1943–1972, Grant designed costumes for 14 motion pictures, beginning with Follies Girl which was released in 1943. While working on the film Up in Central Park...
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  • and Nick Arnstein "You're a Funny Girl / Beekman Call" – Nick Arnstein "What Do Happy People Do?" – Follies Girls "The Music That Makes Me Dance" – Fanny...
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  • "Someone to Watch Over Me." A few days later, ten Follies Girls on vacation from The Zangler Follies appear like a mirage in the desert. Bobby has asked...
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    met Chloe Carter (June 21, 1903 – October 28, 1993), a former Ziegfeld Follies girl, who was the first wife of film composer Harry Ruby. Acker remained with...
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    Doris Eaton Travis (category Ziegfeld girls)
    surviving Ziegfeld Girl, a troupe of acclaimed chorus girls who performed as members in the Broadway theatrical revues of the Ziegfeld Follies. She began performing...
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  • The Ziegfeld Follies of 1919 was a revue produced by Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. Billed as the thirteenth edition of the Ziegfeld Follies series, it had a tryout...
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    Olive Thomas (category Ziegfeld girls)
    model in 1914, and moved on to the Ziegfeld Follies the following year. During her time as a Ziegfeld girl, she also appeared in the more risqué show The...
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    Louise Brooks (category Ziegfeld girls)
    as a chorus girl in George White's Scandals and as a semi-nude dancer in the Ziegfeld Follies in New York City. While dancing in the Follies, Brooks came...
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    Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz. In 1916, at age 15, she appeared as a harem girl in Griffith's film Intolerance. In the 1920s, Harris transitioned from child...
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    The Heart of a Follies Girl is a lost 1928 American comedy film directed by John Francis Dillon and written by Dwinelle Benthall, Gerald Duffy, Charles...
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    Ziegfeld Follies. Three women, Sandra Kolter, Susan Gallagher, and Sheila Regan are among those selected to join the cast of glamorous "Ziegfeld girls", and...
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    Paulette Goddard (category Ziegfeld girls)
    New York Times. August 17, 1995. Retrieved December 2, 2015. "FORMER FOLLIES GIRL SUES.; Paulette Goddard James, Wed Here in 1927, Seeks Reno Divorce"...
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    Virginia Biddle (category Ziegfeld girls)
    fellow cast member in the 1931 Follies, Helen Walsh, was killed. Although she played the benefit performance of the Follies in Walsh's memory, Biddle ended...
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    Billie Dove (category Ziegfeld girls)
    was hired as a teenager by Florenz Ziegfeld to appear in his Ziegfeld Follies Revue. She legally changed her name to Lillian Bohny in the early 1920s...
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    Trevor as Follies Girl Fern Lorraine as Follies Girl Katherine DeForrest as Follies Girl Edythe Flynn as Follies Girl Grace Fay as Follies Girl Nancy Zann...
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    role of Follies Girl Lillian Gish filmography Diane of the Follies at silentera.com Diane of the Follies at IMDb Diane of the Follies at AllMovie v t e...
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  • Rogers Follies: A Life in Review' in the new Will Rogers Theater last Saturday...Pat Boone is a solid hit in Branson as Will Rogers in the 'Follies.'" The...
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    (1943) – Edith Trimble-Pomfret Submarine Alert (1943) – Ann Patterson Follies Girl (1943) – Anne Merriday It Should Happen to You (1954) – Guest Panelist...
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    decades. "A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody" was the hit song of that year's Follies, and became the theme song for all later Follies. In the 1936 film The...
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    Claude Zidi with Thierry Lhermitte The Folies Bergère inspired the Ziegfeld Follies in the United States and other similar shows, including a long-standing...
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    mother's side was born in Ireland. His great-grandmother was a Ziegfeld Follies girl, something Sanders called his "ancestral connection with stage". Sanders'...
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    Fanny Brice (category Ziegfeld Follies)
    headlining his Ziegfeld Follies in 1910 and 1911. She was hired again in 1921 and performed in the Follies into the 1930s. In the 1921 Follies, she was featured...
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    The Great Ziegfeld (category Ziegfeld Follies)
    Broadway's Ziegfeld Follies, with highly elaborate costumes, dances and sets. Many of the performers of the theatrical Ziegfeld Follies were cast in the...
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  • City just before and following World War I, the story opens with Ziegfeld Follies star Fanny Brice awaiting her husband Nick Arnstein to arrive at the theater...
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    Canteen Sailor Cutting In with Ina Claire Frank Borzage uncredited 1943 Follies Girl Unconfirmed Bit Part uncredited 1943 Bomber's Moon Curly Edward Ludwig...
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