A Pretty Girl is like a Melody - The Great Ziegfeld (1936)

Written by Irving Berlin (for Ziegfeld Follies of 1919)
Played during the opening credits
Performed by Dennis Morgan, voice dubbed by Allan Jones, and chorus

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• broadway
• melody
• gigi
• 1958
• musical
• comedy
• stage
• leslie caron
• paris
• french
• love story
• romance
• song and dance
• dancing
• ziegfeld
• follies
• girls
• fashion
• extravaganza

[MissLori]

Pure magic without computer generated effects! THIS was Hollywood magic at its zenith!

[Mothedog1]

Unblievable!  The curtain descending at the end was like the Busby Berkeley Mothership descending.

[hotsickle]

@MissLori did they have zenith tv's then ?

[errolfan]

The best movie musical production number to date.

[errolfan]

@ferociousgumby I LLLLLOVE the way you open your quip from 3 weeks ago. In case you just opened your sarcophagus, there's a lot of other cupcakes, but none have ever better presented than here. Don't tell me what you want to do with the icing...

[buddybleau]

I wonder if the younger generation realize the cost of such a production?

[buddybleau]

@siouxie921 Equalizer? I don't think so. Check out the spelling and grammer on some of the other videos. None of us are equal. Some are ignorant, some are intelligent. Period! And you are correct, it is very moving.

[siouxie921]

@liberationn15 Virginia Bruce - I only know from reading the many comments.

[siouxie921]

@buddybleau I understand your comment, but isn't the internet the great equalizer? Everybody's the same on line in a sense. People don't want to be pegged as old. I'm of a certain age, and let's leave it at that. I saw this as a young child, and over 40 years later I still love this. It's very moving, isn't it?

[siouxie921]

@MovieReviews98 Well, you are certainly astute and perhaps destined for great things. Tell 'em I said so!

[siouxie921]

@ferociousgumby No, it's GREAT! I saw this first as a young girl, and many years later it never fails to move me. Read that Ted Morgan, the tall man was actually dubbed. My favorite part is the Rhapsody in Blue sequence. Oh so fabulous!

[ferociousgumby]

I am 156 years old and live inside a sarcophagus, and I LLLLLOVE this clip! No, seriously, I find that it has a hallucinogenic quality to it. A dream that's either very very bad, or very very good. The curtains oozing up and down and fluttering have an erotic boudoir/bridal chamber quality, not to mention the sense of looking up a flowing skirt. In fact the whole thing is a sexually-overstuffed extravaganza! The immobile woman on top looks like a human cupcake, and I'd like to eat her NOW.