Glorifying the American Girl (1929) Florenz Ziegfeld Follies
Musicals
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1h 34m
A 1929 musical comedy film produced by Florenz Ziegfeld highlighting Ziegfeld Follies performers. The last third of the film is basically a Follies production, with appearances by Rudy Vallee, Helen Morgan and Eddie Cantor.
The script for the film was written by J.P. McEvoy and Millard Webb and directed by John W. Harkrider and Millard Webb. The songs were written by Irving Berlin, Walter Donaldson, Rudolf Friml, James E. Hanley, Larry Spier and Dave Stamper. The film is in the public domain, and many prints exhibited on television are in black-and-white only, and do not include pre-Code material, such as nudity."
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