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Good movie (may contain spoilers)

posted 19 years ago by Jungle_Red
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I really enjoyed this movie. I felt it was like a good one to watch on a rainy day. I ecspecially enjoyed Lana Turner's performance. My favorite scene was the scene at the end when she walked down that flight of stairs and then fell. I did feel at points it was over acted for example when she yelled "I'M COUNTING MY BLESSINGS ANNIE I'M COUNTING MY BLESSINGS". And I think Hedy LaMarr must be the most beautiful woman in the world. Judy Garland also gave an exceptional performance I felt. And I really liked James Stewart in his role. I think that must be one of his best that isn't really well known. I would recommend this for anyone who's interested. Does anyone else have some opinon of the movie??

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[–] Jungle_Red 19 years ago

I agree with you this seems to be the one and only time Turner was able to act. And I couldn't contain myself from laughing at Judy in that tan makeup singing "AY AY AY!!"

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[–] Jungle_Red 19 years ago

I concur! That whole number was hysterical
"All I wanted was just what everybody else wants, you know, to be loved."

[–] jrhpax 18 years ago

I'm not a Lana Turner fan -- except for this movie and "Cass Timberlane," the only two movies of hers in which I enjoyed her acting. I thought that Lana was the best reason to watch "Ziegfeld Girl." She was enormously touching. She sicker she got, the more beautiful she got. She WAS beautiful, too, not the plastic phony she later became.

This is the only time I can recall that anyone else blew Judy Garland off the screen. Who'd have thought it would be Lana Turner?

Hedy Lamarr was beautiful, but as I watched her, all I could think of was Carol Burnett playing Lamarr in the "Algiers" skit. For that matter, many of the cliched lines sounded like something from a Carol Burnett skit.

Dan Dailey, Tony Martin and Jimmy Stewart were very good.

Three of the musical numbers -- "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows," "Minnie from Trinidad" and "You Stepped Out of a Dream" -- were memorable. The rest I forgot when the movie was over.

Despite its flaws, this movie stays in the mind.

[–] BlondeVixen 17 years ago

<sicker she got, the more beautiful she got.>

The magic of Hollywood, eh? If only that happened in real life.

Another movie Turner showed acting ability was Madame X.

It's great to see a so many talents together in one movie. Sadly, most in this movie are no longer with us.

[–] HoferPM-1 17 years ago

I think Tony Martin is still with us and I'm sure Jackie Cooper is.

[–] deadpan_diva 16 years ago

I really like this movie. I loved Eve Arden in this also. One of my favorite lines is "I think I'll sttle down and adopt a baby, A boy about 18 years old."

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[–] countrygirltori 16 years ago

Eve Arden should be in every movie.

But anyone else love when Judy was singing "Minnie from Trinidad" and said when Minnie went to Hollywood they changed her name to Minnie Lamarr. haha I wonder if they put that in because Hedy Lamarr was in the picture or were the songs written ahead of time? In that case, its pretty ironic.

[–] xylonian-1 16 years ago

"Eve Arden should be in every movie."

I have been lucky lately as she kept on popping up in a lot of the movies on TCM....

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[–] liscarkat-2 11 years ago

"when Minnie went to Hollywood they changed her name to Minnie Lamarr. haha I wonder if they put that in because Hedy Lamarr was in the picture or were the songs written ahead of time? In that case, its pretty ironic."

It's an intentional joke, or a coincidence, but it's not ironic.

[–] marianp1 13 years ago

I saw it yesterday, on a lazy Saturday.

Terrific fun!

[–] beckeis 12 years ago

I adore Eve Arden!
Funny thing is I watched GREASE yesterday and she was just as good nearly thirty years later!

[–] miss_meli 12 years ago

This movie was great! I'm replying to beckeis since its the most recent post I've seen. It is in a way Valley of the Dolls the 40s version. Hedy Lammar and Barbra Parkin's roles kind of end the same way-though Lana Turner's is kind of a mixture of Jennifer North and Neely O'Hara-she goes from good girl to bad girl but is kind of a tragedy in the end. There really is no Susan Gallagher in VOD though since none of the girls end up having much success but she is a singer ala Neely O'Hara.
Of course VOD is the raunchier version and considered the campier, and this version is more glossier and glamourous and sexless!

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[–] liscarkat-2 11 years ago

"One of my favorite lines is "I think I'll sttle down and adopt a baby, A boy about 18 years old."

She said "21", which was the legal age of consent at that time.

[–] logicalskeptic 9 years ago

I certainly agree and then some with all the Eve Arden lovers. I remember being exposed to her and her marvelous sarcastic wit as a young boy in the late 40's. I only wish I could be as appreciative of this film that I find brings out the curmudgeon in me. I find its dialogue to be horribly insipid, as are Judy Garland's songs. She certainly deserved something better even at this early age, something like some Kern, Gershwin, or Arlen. And I felt Tony Martin was missing something without the presence of his lovely and talented wife to be Cyd Charisse.
As far as musicals are concerned I must confess I feel that many modern ones are considerably better than Zeigfeld Girl, to name only a few: The Music Man, My Fair Ladt, Love Me Or Leave Me, Singin' In the Rain, and A Chorus Line.

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