ZIEGFELD FOLLIES (1946)

Winner of the award for Best Musical Comedy at the Cannes Film Festival, this star-studded production opens in heaven, with the late Broadway producer Florenz Ziegfeld looking down to earth and imagining a final lavish revue. A series of musical and comedy sketches follow, including dance numbers with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, an Esther Williams water ballet, a Red Skelton comedy routine and more. Lucille Ball and Judy Garland also appear along with Fanny Brice, Kathryn Grayson, Keenan Wynn, Lena Horne, William Powell, Cyd Charisse, Hume Cronyn, Virginia O’Brien, Victor Moore, James Melton, Lucille Bremer, Edward Arnold and William Frawley. (117 min, B&W, Full Screen 1.33:1)