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...Ziegfeld Girl (Metro -Goldwyn-Mayer) is a prodigally star-crammed, $2,000,000 exposition of how the late Florenz Ziegfeld's leggy ladies won their Zs. It is also the final glorification of Lana (The Ramparts We Watch) Turner. Henceforth the eupeptic starlet is scheduled to shroud her most publicized charms in the toga of a dramatic actress...
...Ziegfeld Girl those charms are seldom out of the camera's eye. They get Sheila Regan (Lana) into a pack of trouble. The Great Ziegfeld himself, who never appears in the picture, started it. Out spotting fresh talent for his new show, he found Sheila running an elevator. When his agent (Edward Everett Horton) arrives to tell her she is to be glorified, she is too stunned to speak. Her truck-driver boy friend (James Stewart) has to supply her address, telephone number. Told when and where to report for rehearsals, Sheila still can't answer. Says...
...star who really strutted her antique stuff was Mae Murray. Her platinum blondness and pouting "bee-stung" lips first got rave notices in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1908. One of the wildest waltzes in cinema history was her fling with John Gilbert in The Merry Widow in 1925. Since then she has fluctuated between a fortune of $3,000,000 and, she claims, nights on a park bench...
...sympathetic character. As Joey, lean, dark Gene Kelly has a treacherous Irish charm, a sweet Irish tenor, a catlike dancing grace that makes vice almost as appealing as virtue. This impression is confirmed by Vivienne Segal as the loose Chicagoenne. More opulent than she used to be in the Ziegfeld Follies, in Helene Pons's svelte costumes she is a luscious miracle of corsetry...
Died. J. Harold Murray, 49, handsome hero of Ziegfeld's Rio Rita, many another Broadway musical of the '20s, who retired from the stage in 1935, bought himself an interest in a Hartford brewery; at Killingworth, Conn...