{"id":65,"date":"2011-07-12T12:51:11","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T12:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dvdreview.biz\/?p=65"},"modified":"2011-07-12T12:51:11","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T12:51:11","slug":"the-great-ziegfeld-trailer-1936-9th-oscar-best-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/films\/the-great-ziegfeld-trailer-1936-9th-oscar-best-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Ziegfeld &#8211; 1936 Oscar&#8217;s Best Picture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Great Ziegfeld Best Picture at the 1936 Oscars<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left;margin: 5px\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p><strong>Quick Plot<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This 1936 MGM musical starts\u00a0at the\u00a01893 Chicago World&#8217;s Fair, where\u00a0Flo Ziegfeld\u00a0promotes Eugen Sandow (the worlds then strongest man) and latter usurps his more successful rival \u00a0Jack Billings by snatching his intended protegie French singer Anna Held. They soon marry however this does not stop Flo from moving on to bigger things and eventually Anna Leaves him. Next is starlet Billie Burke who he marries and the plot lurches from his success to failure cumulating with him getting wiped out in the 1929 stock market crash. \u00a0Sadly there is no happy ending as Flo dies still dreaming of recapturing his earlier successes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Another Trailer Clip<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Great Ziegfeld Cast<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>William Powell as Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr.<br \/>\nMyrna Loy as Billie Burke<br \/>\nLuise Rainer as Anna Held<br \/>\nFrank Morgan as Jack Billings<br \/>\nFanny Brice as Herself<br \/>\nVirginia Bruce as Audrey Dane<br \/>\nReginald Owen as Sampson, Flo&#8217;s frequently-nervous bookkeeper<br \/>\nRay Bolger as Himself<br \/>\nErnest Cossart as Sidney, Billing&#8217;s valet, who is hired away by Flo<br \/>\nJoseph Cawthorn as Dr. Ziegfeld (as Joseph Cawthorne)<br \/>\nNat Pendleton as Eugen Sandow<br \/>\nHarriet Hoctor as Herself<br \/>\nJean Chatburn as Mary Lou<br \/>\nPaul Irving as Erlanger, Billing&#8217;s later partner<br \/>\nHerman Bing as Costumer<br \/>\nBuddy Doyle as Eddie Cantor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Great Ziegfeld Best Picture at the 1936 Oscars \u00a0 Quick Plot This 1936 MGM musical starts\u00a0at the\u00a01893 Chicago World&#8217;s Fair, where\u00a0Flo Ziegfeld\u00a0promotes Eugen Sandow (the worlds then strongest man) and latter usurps his more successful rival \u00a0Jack Billings by snatching his intended protegie French singer Anna Held. They soon marry however this does not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":66,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[59,60,197,800,815],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1930s-oscar-winning-films","tag-59","tag-1936-oscars","tag-best-picture","tag-the-great-ziegfeld","tag-trailer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/films\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/films\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/films\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/films\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/films\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/films\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/films\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/films\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/films\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/films\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}