The Great Ziegfeld

"I've got to have more steps. I need more steps. I've got to get higher. Higher."

- Florenz Ziegfeld

A 1936 Biopic about Broadway's most famous producer of his day. It is also a showcase for numbers from his most famous shows. And it won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

This film features examples of:

 * Character as Himself: Ray Bolger, Harriet Hoctor, and Fanny Brice, all veterans of the Ziegfeld Follies.
 * Costume Porn: Both on and off his stage shows.
 * Fake Nationality: Anna Held, who was born to French and Polish parents is played by German actress Luise Rainer.
 * Famous Last Words: The page quote; his last words were a bit different.
 * Oscar Bait
 * Pretty in Mink: His first wife wears and ermine muff, hat, and trimmed jacket. His second wife is given a chinchilla cape for Christmas.
 * Those Two Actors: William Powell as Ziegfeld, and Myrna Loy as Billie Burke, making this one of their first collaborations that wasn't a Thin Man movie.