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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0089218527592
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Alpha Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Alpha Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Alpha Home Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 27, 2007
Running Time: 90 minutes
Sales Rank: 85576
Studio: Alpha Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: February 27, 2007
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
An early all-star musical spectacular featuring Flo Ziegfield and the greatest names in show business.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - A window into the Ziegfeld era & a fine Eddie Cantor skit are the highlights of this "film."
Gloria Hughes (played by Mary Easton), our glorified girl herein, perseveres through this film, going from a gal singing sheet music in a department store to a leading dancer on the stage. Just before she goes on at her biggest venue thus far she runs into Eddie Cantor backstage. Cantor tells her, "Don't be scared now. You'll make good. I was frightened a little too when I first came with Ziegfeld , but I'm over it now. Besides, they're a great audience. I've got all my relatives out there, ... Read More
Rating:  - Get A Different DVD
I just watched it and the picture/sound are terrible, even making the obvious allowances. Another company's DVD is said by a reviewer on this site to be superior to this one, so you should take a chance...it certainly can't be worse than this one.
Rating:  - well, that's show biz for ya...
Glorifying The American Girl turned out to be much better than I expected. The acting and dialogue at times weren't the best although the last 30 minutes of the film provides us with a superb idea of what Flo Ziegfeld's stage show must have been like before he was financially ruined in the stock market crash of 1929. Look for some great performances throughout the film from Mary Eaton as Gloria Hughes, Dan Healy as Danny Miller and Edward Crandall as Buddy Moore.
When the action begins, ... Read More
Rating: - Enjoy the innocence of it all, as well as Eddy Cantor and Helen Morgan
We should encourage each other to smile indulgently at the antics and musical tastes of our great-grandparents. After all, our own great-grandchildren will soon enough be doing the same to us. In Glorifying the American Girl, the story of Gloria Hughes' ambition to be a musical star is appliqued onto the Broadway extravaganza of a Florenz Ziegfeld show. We get songs, dances, fabulous costumes, show girls, ukulele plucking, comedy skits, a near-fatal accident, lechery, tearful farewells, love lost and ... Read More
Rating: - Talking Curiosity
Two factors drew me into purchasing this product: that this film is an early talkie and Flo Ziegfeld. The film, like the curate's egg, is good in parts but has problems with long and boring dialogue, especially the speech made by the boss at the firm's outing. That said, it is a very interesting period piece showing life as it was for ordinary people in the late 20s. There are set pieces towards the end of the film of the Ziegfeld Girls arranged by Flo Ziegfeld himself (which are less spectacular than ... Read More
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