>>173827,
>>173828,
>>173829,
>>173830,
>>173831,
>>173832,
>>173833,
>>173834,
>>173835,
>>173836,
>>173837,
>>173838,
>>173839,
>>173840,
>>173841,
>>173842,
>>173843,
>>173844,
>>173845Haley Strack @StrackHaley - Per the @nypost, Good got involved with the ICE Watch group through Southside Family, her son's social-justice-focused charter school.
The school encourages families to participate in activism. Here's a pic from 2015 of kindergartners at a BLM encampment in Minneapolis:
https://x.com/StrackHaley/status/2009662555447247204hernando arce @hernandoarce - I’m sitting between two liberals on my flight back to San Antonio Tx…..One is wearing a Covid mask the other is watching the Oscar award show. God help me.
https://x.com/hernandoarce/status/2010763464621396209Hollywood Golden Age of Cinema @HGACinema - Best Picture Oscar Winner “The Great Ziegfeld” (1936) | Best Scenes
“The Great Ziegfeld” was one of the biggest successes in film in the 1930s and the pride of MGM at the time. It was acclaimed as the greatest musical biography to be made in Hollywood and still remains a standard in musical film making.
In the advertising for the film, MGM boasted of the film's ostentatious nature, bragging that it was “SO BIG that only MGM could handle it”, with its “countless beauties, trained lions, ponies, dogs and other animals”. Busby Berkeley, who had led Warner Brothers to become the leading producer of musicals in Hollywood in the 1930s, was a major influence on the producers which had “glamorous, excessive 1930s cinematic musical numbers”.
The film, shot at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios in Culver City, California in the fall of 1935, is a fictionalised and sanitised tribute to Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. and a cinematic adaptation of Broadway's Ziegfeld Follies, with highly elaborate costumes, dances and sets. Many of the performers of the theatrical Ziegfeld Follies were cast in the film as themselves, including Fanny Brice and Harriet Hoctor, and the real Billie Burke acted as a supervisor for the film. The “A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody” set alone was reported to have cost US$220,000 featuring a towering rotating volute of 70 ft (21 m) diameter with 175 spiral steps, weighing 100 tons. The music to the film was provided by Walter Donaldson, Irving Berlin, and lyricist Harold Adamson, with choreographed scenes.
The extravagant dances and ensemble sequences were choreographed by Seymour Felix and Harold Adamson.
The extravagant costumes, which even Ziegfeld initially considered too flamboyant, were designed by American costume designer Adrian, who had worked with many of the greatest actresses of the period, including Greta Garbo, Norma Shearer, Jeanette MacDonald, Jean Harlow, Katharine Hepburn and Joan Crawford, and later designed for films such as Marie Antoinette (1938), The Women (1939), and The Wizard of Oz (1939). Howard Gutner documents that due to MGM's wealth and the high budget, Adrian indulged in “sheer lavishness” in making the costumes, surpassing anything he had done previously. It took 250 tailors and seamstresses six months to sew the costumes that Adrian had designed for the film, using 50 pounds (23 kg) of silver sequins and 12 yards (11 m) of white ostrich plumes. The costumes worn by women in the film are diverse, varying from “puffy hooped skirts to catlike leotards” to “layers of tulle and chiffron”, with the men mostly wearing black tuxedos.
“The Great Ziegfeld” (1936) won three Academy Awards, including Best Picture for producer Hunt Stromberg, Best Actress for Luise Rainer, and Best Dance Direction for Seymour Felix, and was nominated for four others.
https://x.com/HGACinema/status/2010829868490215530 20