Glorifying the American Girl

The story of a young aspirant singer leads us to the world of Florenz Ziegfeld, the key figure of the Broadway musicals with his Ziegfeld Follies. Gloria leaves her great love for the sake of her career and then begins a romance with a manipulator who wants to get her between the sheets. In addition to the story we discover plenty of songs, but also and especially the Ziegfeld show from which the film borrowed its name and that we get to see in the last part. The stars of the moment play comical and musical scenes, there is nudity that goes far beyond suggestion (including Johnny Weissmuller who is even less dressed than as Tarzan) and even blasphemy, since this is the first film in which you would hear the word "damn" (which even ten years later in "Gone with the Wind" will be shocking).
Although the film is more innocent than others in this program, we get to see the female character who chases her dream and refuses to go through life as a housewife. In addition, we recommend you to discover this film in its rare full version, because some scenes in colour (Technicolor in a primitive version) were cut and thus not visible until the copy was restored.