DVD Review: Ziegfeld Girl

(MGM, 1941, Black & White, 132 min.)
Directed by Robert Z. Leonard, Busby Berkeley

An elevator operator, a wife of a struggling concert violinist, a born-in-a-trunk vaudevillian: they're three different women on three different paths of life, yet they soon share one dream: to become a Ziegfeld Girl.

Lana Turner, Hedy Lamarr and Judy Garland play the respective three trying for stardom in this sumptuous extravaganza. James Stewart adds to the star wattage, playing the jilted truck-driving beau of Turner's footlight diva. And legendary innovator Busby Berkeley brings his imaginative camerawork and pacing to numbers that include Garland's massively scaled and calypso-infused Minnie from Trinidad, plus a lavish, showgirl-revue finale that reprises the rhapsodic You Stepped Out of a Dream. Sweet dreams, movie fans.

A Choirs Line of Glorious Special Features

Introduction by Garland biographer John Fricke

Vintage Musical Short A New Romance of Celluloid: We Must Have Music

Our Gang short Melodies Old and New

2 Outtakes, the musical number Too Beautiful to Last and a deleted We Must Have Music finale

Theatrical trailers of this film, The Great Ziegfeld and Ziegfeld Follies

Languages: English & Français
Subtitles: English, Français & Español
Aspect Ratio: Standard Version, presented in a format preserving the aspect ratio of its original theatrical exhibition
Encoding: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)
Film Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
DVD Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Release Date: April 6, 2004
UPC: 012569590922