Title: The Great Ziegfeld
Content:  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 film, shot at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios in Culver City, California in the fall of 1935, is a fictionalized and sanitized tribute to Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. and a cinematic adaptation of Broadway's Ziegfeld Follies, with highly elaborate costumes, dances and sets. Many of the performers of the theatrical Ziegfeld Follies were cast in the film as themselves, including 
Title: The Great Ziegfeld
Content:  lavish production and as a symbol of glamour and excess during the Golden Age of Hollywood, today The Great Ziegfeld is generally seen less favorably and is considered by many critics to be excessively showy and too lengthy at over three hours. MGM made two more Ziegfeld films – one titled Ziegfeld Girl (1941), starring James Stewart, Judy Garland, Hedy Lamarr and Lana Turner, which recycled some footage from The Great Ziegfeld, and in 1946, Ziegfeld Follies by Vincente Minnelli. In 1951, the studio produced a Technicolor remake of Show Boat, which Ziegfeld had presented as a stage musical.
Title: Ziegfeld Girl (film)
Content:  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, Jackie Cooper, Eve Arden, and Philip Dorn. The film, which features musical numbers by Busby Berkeley, was produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Set in the 1920s, the film tells the parallel stories of three women who become performers in the renowned Broadway show the Ziegfeld Follies. It was intended to be a 1938 sequel to the 1936 hit The Great Ziegfeld, and recycled some footage from the earlier film. Unlike that film and the later Ziegfeld Follies, Ziegfeld himself does not appear as a character.
Title: The Great Ziegfeld
Content:  was an adaptation from the old Ziegfeld stage shows. Variety called the Hoctor ballet "in itself intricate with its maneuverings of six Russian wolfhounds in terp formations", and said that the "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" sequence in the film is a "nifty Berlin tune [which] becomes the fulcrum for one of Frank Skinner's best arrangements as Arthur Lange batons the crescendos into a mad, glittering potpourri of Saint-Saëns and Gershwin, Strauss and Verdi, beautifully blended against the Berlinesque background. It's a scenic flash which makes the auditor wonder 'What can they do to follow that?' meaning in 
Title: The Great Ziegfeld
Content:  the Glorifier's aegis during a span of about forty years. The two biographies—of the man and of his creations—are, naturally, inseparable; but both have been told with such wealth of detail and circumstance (real and imaginative) that even the three-hour film narrative is fragmentary and, in some places, confused." Although it has some accuracies, The Great Ziegfeld takes many key liberties with Ziegfeld's life and the history of the Follies, resulting in many inaccuracies. The earlier scenes with Sandow, the milk bath advertising scenario, and many other sequences including several of the dramatic ups and downs of the film were fictional. George Gershwin's 
Title: The Great Ziegfeld
Content:  to Town were released, which some argue was more deserving of Best Picture. Rotten Tomatoes reports a 71% approval rating based on 63 reviews, with a weighted average of 6.1/10. The site's consensus reads: "This biopic is undeniably stylish, but loses points for excessive length, an overreliance on clichés, and historical inaccuracies". Emily W. Leider claims the film to be "more remarkable for its "legs and tinsel" extravagance than for its excellence." David Parkinson of Empire gave the film 3 out of 5 stars and concluded that it "Drags in places and doesn't even try for a true-to-life portrait of the great theatre entrepreneur but it's shiny and big spectacle with impressive choreography." 
Title: The Great Ziegfeld
Content: William Powell as Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. ; Myrna Loy as Billie Burke ; Luise Rainer as Anna Held ; Frank Morgan as Jack Billings ; Fannie Brice as Herself ; Virginia Bruce as Audrey Dane ; Reginald Owen as Sampson ; Ray Bolger as Himself ; Ernest Cossart as Sidney ; Joseph Cawthorn as Dr. Ziegfeld ; Nat Pendleton as Sandow ; Harriet Hoctor as Herself ; Jean Chatburn as Mary Lou ; Robert Greig as Butler ; Herman Bing as Costumer ; Charles Judels as Pierre ; Marcelle Corday as Marie ; Raymond Walburn as Sage ; A. A. Trimble as Will Rogers ; Buddy Doyle as Eddie Cantor ; Mae Questel as Rosie 
Title: The Great Ziegfeld
Content:  ; William Demarest as Gene Buck (uncredited) ; Edwin Maxwell as Charles Frohman (uncredited) ; Charles Trowbridge as Julian Mitchell (uncredited) Wanda Allen ; Lynn Bailey ; Monica Bannister ; Bonnie Bannon ; Lynn Bari ; Sheila Browning ; Edna Callahan ; Diane Cook ; Pauline Craig ; Hester Dean ; Susan Fleming ; Virginia Grey ; Mary Halsey ; Jeanne Hart ; Patricia Havens-Monteagle ; Marcia Healy ; Mary Lange ; Toni Lanier (Toni Mannix) ; Margaret Lyman ; Frances MacInerney ; Julie Mooney ; Pearlie Norton ; Carlita Orr ; Claire Owen ; Wanda Perry ; Evelyn Randolph ; Pat Ryan ; Georgia Spence ; Venetia Varden ; Dolly Verner  Ziegfeld Girls (uncredited)
Title: The Great Ziegfeld
Content:  reviewer for the Spokane Chronicle praised the film for its superb acting, writing that "[even] the great producer [Ziegfeld] would have been unable to produce scenes of magnitude and splendor that are given as part of the picture telling his life." Frank S. Nugent of The New York Times was also highly praising of the film, noting that it had "more stars than there are in the heavens" and remarking that "the picture achieves its best moments in the larger sequences devoted to the Girls — ballet, chorus and show. At least one of these spectacular numbers, filmed to the music of Irving Berlin's "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody", with overtones of 
Title: The Great Ziegfeld
Content:  great entrepreneur and sentimentalist without sacrificing the shades and moods called for" and noting that Luise Rainer is "tops of the femmes with her vivacious Anna Held". Stanley Green cited The Great Ziegfeld as "the first of a number of elaborate show-business screen biographies". Otis Ferguson, writing for New Republic magazine, remarked that the "musical numbers seem as irresistible as Ziegfeld himself". The New York American said that the film is "pretty nearly everything such an extravaganza should be", with "romance and reality, song and dance, gaiety and beauty, pathos and bathos". Time qualified it as "Pretentious, packed with hokum and as richly sentimental as an Irving Berlin lyric, it is, as such, top-notch entertainment." 

Question: What genre is The Great Ziegfeld?
Answer: musical film.
musical movie.