Florenz Edward Ziegfeld Jr. (/ˈzɪɡfɛld/; March 21, 1867 – July 22, 1932) was an American Broadway impresario, notable for his series of theatrical revues...
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The Ziegfeld Follies were a series of elaborate theatrical revue productions on Broadway in New York City from 1907 to 1931, with renewals in 1934, 1936...
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The Ziegfeld Theatre was a single-screen movie theater located at 141 West 54th Street in midtown Manhattan in New York City. It opened in 1969 and closed...
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Patricia Burke Ziegfeld Stephenson (October 23, 1916 – April 11, 2008) was an American author. She was known for her 1963 autobiography The Ziegfelds' Girl: Confessions...
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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...
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Ziegfeld Theatre could refer to: Ziegfeld Theatre (1927), a legitimate Broadway theater built on Sixth Ave. in New York City in 1927. Ziegfeld Theatre...
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The term "Ziegfeld Girl" (or "Ziegfeld Follies Girl") is used broadly to describe the "singers, showgirls, comediennes, [and] dancers" who appeared in...
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Ziegfeld's/Secrets was a dual-themed nightclub in Washington, D.C., with Ziegfeld's featuring drag queens, and Secrets featuring male strippers. The entertainment...
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film series. She was married to Broadway producer and impresario Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. from 1914 until his death in 1932. Burke was born in Washington, D...
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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...
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Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. (1867–1932) was an American theatre impresario, famous for the Ziegfeld Follies revues. Ziegfeld may also refer to: Ziegfeld: The Man...
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Ziegfeld Follies is a 1945 American musical comedy film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, primarily directed by Vincente Minnelli, with segments directed...
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Anna Held (category Ziegfeld girls)
Broadway. While appearing in London, she was spotted by impresario Florenz Ziegfeld, who brought her to America as his common-law wife. From 1896 through 1910...
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The Ziegfeld Theatre was a Broadway theatre located at 1341 Sixth Avenue, corner of 54th Street in Manhattan, New York City. It was built in 1927 and despite...
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major star with the Ziegfeld Follies ("Rat-Tat-Tat-Tat"). Nick asks Ziegfeld to invest in a gambling casino, but although Ziegfeld passes, Fanny insists...
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Fanny Brice (category Ziegfeld Follies)
Harriet Hoctor were the only original Ziegfeld performers to portray themselves in The Great Ziegfeld (1936) and Ziegfeld Follies (1946). Brice's first radio...
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Lillian Lorraine (category Ziegfeld girls)
screen actress of the 1910s and 1920s, and a prominent Ziegfeld Girl in the Broadway revues Ziegfeld Follies during the 1910s. Lorraine was born in Utah...
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Fancy Free (1918). It was, however, Florenz Ziegfeld who made her a star after she performed in his Ziegfeld Follies of 1918 in Manhattan at the New Amsterdam...
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Gold Diggers in 1919. Hopwood first heard the term in a conversation with Ziegfeld performer Kay Laurell. As an indication on how new the slang term was,...
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Ann Pennington (actress) (redirect from Ann Pennington (Ziegfeld star))
singer who starred on Broadway in the 1910s and 1920s, notably in the Ziegfeld Follies and George White's Scandals. Pennington was born in Wilmington...
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films—Orson Welles in The Night That Panicked America and Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr., in Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women. He portrayed the character John Carrington...
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feats of strength. Florenz Ziegfeld wanted to display Sandow at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, but Ziegfeld knew that Maurice Grau had...
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Luise Rainer (section The Great Ziegfeld (1936))
year she was given a supporting part in the musical biography The Great Ziegfeld, where, despite limited appearances, her emotion-filled performance so...
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policies, which added the violence and regimentation of the organization." Ziegfeld 2016. PRC 2011. Nee 2013. Wasti 2009. Schuurmans 2023, p. 63. Fischer-Tahir...
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career of humorist and performer Will Rogers, using as a backdrop the Ziegfeld Follies, which he often headlined, and describes episodes in his life in...
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Ziegfeld, Jr. called her "the loveliest showgirl in the world". She was known for her commanding stage presence and became the star of the Ziegfeld Follies...
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New Amsterdam Theatre (redirect from Ziegfeld Roof)
1913 to 1927, the New Amsterdam was the home of the Ziegfeld Follies, whose producer, Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., maintained an office in the building and operated...
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The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air was a program broadcast on CBS Radio during the 1930s which attempted to bring the success of Florenz Ziegfeld's stage...
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Olive Thomas (category Ziegfeld girls)
illustrator's 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...
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Doris Eaton Travis (category Ziegfeld girls)
last surviving Ziegfeld Girl, a troupe of acclaimed chorus girls who performed as members in the Broadway theatrical revues of the Ziegfeld Follies. She...
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