Ziegfeld Girl (1941) on Netflix
Flo Ziegfeld picks three showgirls for his Follies. Susan sings vaudeville with her father; Sheila runs an elevator in Flatbush; Sandra, a European beauty, has a violinist husband who objects.
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The Ziegfeld Follies takes on three new showgirls in one season, and the three become friends. Sandra Kolter, a European beauty, is spotted while her husband Franz auditions his violin for the show's orchestra; Franz is turned down, and Sandra takes a place in the line over his objections to bring in money the couple needs. Susan Gallagher, seventeen and from a theatrical family, is found in a vaudeville act with her father and wins a featured role through her singing. Sheila Regan, an elevator operator from Flatbush, Brooklyn, suddenly has a Park Avenue apartment, press attention and gifts from wealthy admirers, while Gil Young, the truck driver who loves her, wants her to marry him.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Ziegfeld Girl (1941)
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- Joan Crawford, Eleanor Powell, Margaret Sullavan and Virginia Bruce were considered for the leads in 1938, but two years of delays changed the cast and illness forced Powell out, after which Ann Miller was considered.
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In the original cut of Ziegfeld Girl, Lana Turner's Sheila dies in the theater in the finale, but test audiences disliked her death, so the ending was re-cut to leave her fate ambiguous.SPOILER
Director Robert Z. Leonard needed twenty-six takes of the sequence in which Lana Turner's Sheila collapses on a staircase before he was satisfied.- Ziegfeld Girl was James Stewart's last film for MGM before he enlisted in the United States Army during World War II, and he shot it at the same time as Pot o' Gold.
- Lana Turner said her role grew during production, with new scenes handed to her that were not in the original script, and called it the first role that got her interested in acting.
- Judy Garland's musical number "We Must Have Music" was cut from the final film to shorten the running time, and only a fragment survives, used in the 1942 MGM short A New Romance of Celluloid: We Must Have Music.
