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Frances MacInerney's debut.	D
For her famous telephone conversation scene, which is generally credited as being what clinched the [...]	D
One of 11 American Music/als to win Best Picture: 1)La canzone di Broadway (1929), 2)Il paradiso del [...]	D
The only Best Picture Oscar nominee that year to be nominated for Best Dance Direction.	D
The first biopic to win an Academy Award for Best Picture, though the feat would be repeated the ver [...]	D
Pat Nixon (then Patricia Ryan), the future wife of Richard Nixon and the First Lady of the United St [...]	D
Universal Pictures bought the film rights to Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.'s life story from his widow Billie [...]	D
The film's costs were proving too much for Universal, so MGM bought the rights for $300,000 from the [...]	D
The "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" set alone was reported to have cost US$220,000 (US$4,053,381 in [...]	D
Mildred Sellers's debut.	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 1998 list of the 400 movies nominated for the Top 100 G [...]	D
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production number 875.	D
William Powell played the role of Florenz Ziegfeld again in the 1945 film Ziegfeld Follies.	D
Billie Burke, the wife Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., paid a visit to the film's set one day. While there, sh [...]	D
The only film in which Luise Rainer won an acting Oscar for her performance in a film which won Best [...]	D
Ray Bolger and Frank Morgan worked with the real Billie Burke in the Wizard of Oz.	D
Final film of Claudia Fargo.	D
Final film of Elsie Larson.	D
The only film directed by Robert Z. Leonard to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards.	D
One of two Best Picture Oscar winners with a 'Z' in the title. The other one is also a biography, Em [...]	D
The first Best Picture Oscar winner to have the name of a person in the title.	D
During filming, Venita Varden's costume caught fire while she was in the dressing room. She was save [...]	D
This film has several connections to The Wizard of Oz (1939). Both films were produced by MGM. It co [...]	D
The sequence "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" was filmed in two lengthy takes after several weeks of [...]	D
Ray Bolger never worked for Ziegfeld, although he is presented in the film as a Ziegfeld star. Fanny [...]	D
Eugen Sandow is portrayed as a typically "dumb strongman". In real life, however, Sandow was highly [...]	D
In 1935, Judy Garland and her sisters, known as "The Gumm Sisters," tested and were signed to Univer [...]	D
Billie Burke never really rated the film much despite taking a personal interest in the writing of t [...]	D
Luise Rainer had never heard of Anna Held when she got the part.	D
In the footnotes of their American Film Institute's Feature Films, 1931-1940, Catalog mistakenly lis [...]	D
The set for "A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody" took months to build and cost over $200,000. This was s [...]	D
Despite its mass publication as one of the featured songs, "It's Been So Long" is never performed in [...]	D
Child actress Marilyn Knowlden was considered for a role in "The Great Ziegfeld" in which her piano- [...]	D
A.A. Trimble, who portrays Will Rogers in the film, was actually a Cleveland map salesman who freque [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2004 list of 400 movies nominated for the top 100 Ameri [...]	D
Myrna Loy, who received second billing for this film, does not actually appear on screen until 2 hou [...]	D
Luise Rainer was the first actress in Academy history to win back-to-back Oscars for Best Actress, f [...]	D
Nat Pendleton was a former champion weightlifter and easily duplicated some of Eugen Sandow's feats [...]	D
Pauline Craig's debut.	D
This film was first telecast in Seattle Saturday 2 February 1957 on KING (Channel 5); in New York Ci [...]	D
Presumably to avoid possible lawsuits, real-life actresses Lillian Lorraine and Marilyn Miller are p [...]	D
Taking into account the roadshow theatrical release, it is the first film to be nominated or win the [...]	D
In the film, Anna Held is said to be French, but she was actually a German Jew born in Warsaw, Polan [...]	D
When MGM made The Great Ziegfeld in 1936, a soft biopic of Florenz Ziegfeld that won the Academy Awa [...]	D
William Powell was loaned by MGM to Universal for the film, but Universal sold the film to MGM when [...]	D
The film was announced as a Universal production in January, 1934 with Lowell Sherman directing.	D
Film debut of Ann Gillis.	D
At around 1:22:28 (during the "A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody" number), you can see a stage hand wit [...]	D
The fourth of 14 films pairing William Powell and Myrna Loy.	D
According to Samuel Marx, an M-G-M executive at the time, this film cost $2.2 million and went on to [...]	D
Due to censorship restrictions forced upon studios by the Hays Code, the Ziegfeld Follies could not [...]	D

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