Ziegfeld Girl
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.
Robert Z. Leonard
Busby Berkeley
Casts & Crew
Judy Garland
James Stewart
Hedy Lamarr
Lana Turner
Jackie Cooper
Tony Martin
Ian Hunter
Charles Winninger
Edward Everett Horton
Philip Dorn
Paul Kelly
Eve Arden
Dan Dailey
Al Shean
Fay Holden
Felix Bressart
Rose Hobart
Mae Busch
Bernard Nedell
Ed McNamara
Renie Riano
Josephine Whittell
Sergio Orta
Jimmy Ames
Roscoe Ates
Joan Barclay
Joyce Compton
Reed Hadley
Colin Kenny
James Flavin
Eddie Hall
Armand Kaliz
Alva Kellogg
Donald Kirke
Lois Lindsay
George Lloyd
Tom Mahoney
The Music Maids
George Noisom
Anne O'Neal
Ginger Pearson
Fred Santley
Larry Steers
Ray Teal
Ruth Tobey
Gayne Whitman
Tex Brodus
Shep Houghton
Barry Norton
Bess Flowers
Bert Moorhouse
James Conaty
King Baggot
Al Hill
Philip Morris
Elliott Sullivan
Bill Days
John Rarig
Max Smith
Dorothy Hoyle
Virginia Rees
Betty Van Allen
Helen Patterson
Rose Paidar
Christine Stafford
Myrna Dell
Louise La Planche
Harriet Bennett
Nina Bissell
Claire James
Dorothy Tuttle
Georgia Carroll
Jean Wallace
Madeline Martin
Frances Gladwin
Virginia Cruzon
Patricia Dane
Victoria Vinton
Vivian Mason
Anya Taranda
Amzie Strickland
Rebel Randall
Leslie Brooks
Irma Wilson
Also Directed by Robert Z. Leonard
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Theo has had many boyfriends who wanted to marry her. Since her mother, Mrs. Selworth, has been married many times, Theo is unsure of commitment. Without much thought, she finally accepts the proposal of Air Corps Lieutenant Tom West. After the honeymoon, Tom's father dies and Tom goes into the defense industry. When Theo has a baby, she hates the idea of being matronly and wants to be the old party girl. The problem is that her husband is working constantly. She looks to her friends, who are having their own problems, and to her old flame Captain Lancing. To decide on what she wants to do with her baby and her life, Theo must grow up.
Hard-hitting news editor Jim Branch falls for high-society type Sharon Norwood but can't get to first base as he continually makes use of her knowledge of the rich and famous to try to solve the murder of one of her socialite acquaintences. Written by Doug Sederberg
A daydreaming dramatist and his beloved persevere through hard times in the hope that one of his plays will be a hit.
In this comedy, a conservative family becomes alarmed when they begin believing their daughter is pregnant.
Renée (Mae Murray) is the heiress of a Mexican ranch, granddaughter of a woman known for her recklessness and frivolity at night. This first "Mademoiselle Midnight" is banished in the opening scene by Napoleon III at Empress Eugenie's insistence to Mexico. Renee is kept locked at the hacienda at night by her father to prevent her following in her grandmother's wayward footsteps. She falls in love with a visiting American (Monte Blue) but is also pursued by the craven outlaw Manuel Corrales. Miss Murray gets to do some of her trademark dancing, but this one isn't a comedy, despite comic relief provided by Johnny Arthur.
A hostess at a Broadway cafe marries one of her many suitors, and finds out her new husband is prone to drinking heavily. A copy exists at the Museo del Cine Buenos Aires.
A love triangle drama, based on a novel by Robert W. Chambers, who is better-known for weird fiction (which is not noticeable in this story.)
Federal agent Rigby (Robert Taylor) travels to Los Trancos on the island of Carlotta (somewhere off the coast of Central America) to break up a war-surplus aircraft engine racket and finds himself tempted by corruption, namely Elizabeth Hintten (Ava Gardner), a café singer married to Tug Hintten (John Hodiak), a drunken ex-pilot.
Also Directed by Busby Berkeley
The Wolves baseball team gets steamed when they find they've been inherited by one K.C. Higgins, a suspected "fathead" who intends to take an active interest in running the team. But K.C. turns outs to be a beautiful woman who really knows her baseball. Second baseman Dennis Ryan promptly falls in love. But his playboy roommate Eddie O'Brien has his own notions about how to treat the new lady owner and some unsavory gamblers have their own ideas about how to handle Eddie.
Jimmy and Mary get a group of kids together to play in a school orchestra. A huge contest between schools is coming up and they have a hard time raising money to go to Chicago for the contest.
Penny Morris and Tommy Williams are both starstruck young teens but nobody seems to give them any chance to perform. Instead they decide to put up their own show to collect money for a summer camp for the kids.
Ronny Bowers, a saxophonist in Benny Goodman's band has won a talent contest an got a ten week contract with a film studio. On his first evening he is supposed to go with the studio's star Mona Marshall to a movie premiere. But this lady doesn't want to go, so the bosses decide to use for Mona a double, Virginia. When Mona finds out next morning that happened, she insisted to fire her double and Ronny. Ronny finds work as singing waiter in a drive in, and is spotted by a director of the same studio, who wants him to lend his voice for an leading actor in a musical.
An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an abandoned child which he takes under his wing, despite the school's rules against teachers having a family; and the girls in the school resent his replacing a handsome and popular teacher, and do everything in their power to get him fired.
A short history of movie music is presented, from silent films accompanied by a single piano, to the elaborate song scores for musicals (with scenes from MGM's musicals) and background music for dramas. Conductor/composer
Married songwriters almost split up while putting on a big show.
Joel and Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City. At Seaside, Joel's pal, Mike Stevens is managing and preparing for their beauty pageant. Joel is made one of the judges plus he has invested $5,000 in it, to Garda's dismay. Eric Bartell, promoter, arrives to dupe Stevens. When Ed Connors, New York racketeer arrives, Bartell is mysteriously murdered. Joel and Garda set out to investigate the murder.
A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.