Word: ziegfeld
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First stage in the reverberations were interviews with Swimmer Jarrett, her husband, Crooner Art Jarrett, whom she married in 1933, and her mother, Mrs. Charlotte Holm of Brooklyn. Said Swimmer Jarrett, who was offered a Ziegfeld Follies job at 16, worked for nine months as a Warner Brothers cinemactress, quit when a scheduled swimming role endangered her amateur status and hence her chance to defend her Olympic title. "I've been nightclubbing . . . for the last three years. . . . The night before the final tryouts I was up all night partying with my husband. . . . I've never made any secret...
Married. Myrna Loy, 31, sloe-eyed, Montana-born cinemactress (The Thin Man, The Great Ziegfeld); and Arthur Hornblow Jr., 43, scenarist, associate producer for Paramount; at Ensenada, Lower California, Mexico...
Died. Nathan Burkan, 56, Rumanian-born expert on copyright and contract law; of acute indigestion; in Great Neck, L. I. Among his clients were Composer Victor Herbert, the late Florenz Ziegfeld, Al Jolson, Gary Cooper, Constance Bennett, Ina Claire, Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt...
...Great Ziegfeld was in production two years. It lasts three hours, cost $2,000,000 and includes the most ornate sets of its kind ever built. It was written by William Anthony McGuire, author of five shows for Ziegfeld, and directed with monumental opulence by Robert Z. Leonard. In addition to three cinema stars, its cast includes three genuine Ziegfeld celebrities (Fanny Brice, Harriet Hoctor, Ray Bolger) and accurate counterfeits of two others: Buddy Doyle as Eddie Cantor and A. A. Trimble as the late Will Rogers. Trimble is a Cleveland map salesman who, often mistaken for Rogers, was last...
...this, adequately advertised in pre release ballyhoo which was grimly improved when the picture's Manhattan premiere last week coincided with the death of Marilyn Miller, onetime Ziegfeld star, comes under the head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer routine. Its result is more surprising. At once biography and able extravaganza, The Great Ziegfeld approximates, more closely than any show he ever produced himself, the Ziegfeldian ideal. Pretentious, packed with hokum and as richly sentimental as an Irving Ber lin lyric, it is, as such, top-notch entertainment...