| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Release Date: April 8, 1936 | CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION | ||
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Likely The Great Ziegfeld will be catalogued as the most sumptuous cinemusical ever produced. Truly a "colossal" show, it is the musical spectacle to end all such. [12 Apr 1936, p.39]
Grand, glorious, gigantic and gorgeous. [13 Apr 1936, p.6]
The Great Ziegfeld is a monument in celluloid to the great American producer, Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. He would have been proud to write his name across it as producer. [13 Apr 1936, p.18]
It is brilliant and spectacular to a superlative degree with scenes that are nothing less than astonishing in their magnificence. [16 Apr 1936, p.2]
Don't let the spectacle and the hugeness of the film scare you -- it's good entertainment. [02 Jun 1936, p.19]
A tremendously decorative picture. [13 Apr 1936, p.21]
Every turn of the story, every interpolated song or dance serves to recall pleasant times in the theater or thrilling stories in the newspapers. [12 May 1936, p.10]
It is, as it stands, a lavish creation. [13 Apr 1936, p.3C]
The picture has the opulence, the lavishness, the expansiveness and the color of the old Follies; it has the general indifference to humor which was one of Ziegfeld's characteristics; and it has the reverential approach with which, we suspect, Mr. Ziegfeld might have handled his own life story.
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For sheer lavishness, attention to detail, honesty of purpose, The Great Ziegfeld is to be commended. Where the picture falls down - hard! - is in its fulsomeness. [15 Apr 1936, p.21]
Fanny Brice is herself, though she isn't on screen enough to vitalize this lavish, tedious musical biography; it goes on for a whopping 3 hours.
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