The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
"The Sensation of the Century!"
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👍 80%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 71%
(RT: 71%) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Luise Rainer as Anna Held
Fanny Brice as Fannie Brice
Virginia Bruce as Audrey Dane
Ray Bolger as Ray Bolger
Is The Great Ziegfeld good?
Most people think so. 80% audience score, estimated from 151 TMDB ratings. Critics agree, scoring it 71%.
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Overview
At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, sideshow barker Florenz Ziegfeld turns the tables on his more-successful neighbor Billings, and also steals his girlfriend. This pattern repeats throughout their lives, as Ziegfeld makes and loses many fortunes putting on ever-bigger, more spectacular shows Wikipedia ↗
