Movies like Ziegfeld Follies

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   The Great Ziegfeld

   Same saga

   1936 · 185 min · Drama · Music · Romance

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   At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, sideshow barker Florenz Ziegfeld turns the tables on his more-successful neighbor Billings, and also steals his girlfriend. This pattern repeats throughout their lives, as Ziegfeld makes and loses many fortunes putting on ever-bigger, more spectacular shows

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • the same saga or cinematic universe
   • principal cast overlap

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   The Barkleys of Broadway

   Shared cast

   1949 · 108 min · Comedy · Romance

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   Josh and Dinah Barkley are a successful musical-comedy team, known for their stormy but passionate relationship. Dinah feels overshadowed by Josh and limited by the lighthearted musical roles he directs her in. So she decides to stretch her skills by taking a role in a serious drama, directed by another man.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • a principal cast member
   • a closely matched era

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   Dancing Lady

   Strong story similarity

   1933 · 92 min · Comedy · Music · Romance

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   Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her get a job in a real Broadway musical being directed by Patch. Tod thinks he can get what he wants from Janie, Patch thinks Janie is using her charms rather than talent to get to the top, and Janie thinks Patch is the greatest. Steve, the stage manager, has the Three Stooges helping him manage all the show girls. Fred Astaire and Nelson Eddy make appearances as famous Broadway personalities.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared themes: musical and revue

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   Slightly Scandalous

   Similar atmosphere

   1946 · 66 min · Comedy · Music · Romance

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   Disparate twin brothers find themselves involved in romantic mayhem when their respective girl friends get them confused in this musical comedy.

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   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared theme: musical
   • a closely matched era

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   Footlight Parade

   Strong story similarity

   1933 · 104 min · Comedy · Music

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   A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared theme: musical

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   Chasing Rainbows

   Strong story similarity

   1930 · 100 min · Comedy · Drama · Romance

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   The road-show troupe of a top Broadway show go cross-country while taking the audience along on the on-stage scenes as well as what happens and is happening back stage of the production. The spectacular dancing ensembles and colorful costumes and pulchritude on-stage offers a contrasting background to the drabness of the backstage, where joy, sorrow, tragedies, deception, and romance are intertwined.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • shared theme: musical
   • shared production studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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   Follow the Boys

   Similar atmosphere

   1944 · 122 min · Comedy · Music · War

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   During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot--often playing themselves--in musical numbers and comedy skits, and were meant as morale-boosters to both the troops overseas and the civilians at home. This was Universal Pictures' effort. It features everyone from Donald O'Connor to the Andrews Sisters to Orson Welles to W.C. Fields to George Raft to Marlene Dietrich, and dozens of other Universal players.

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   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared theme: musical
   • a closely matched era

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   Funny Face

   Shared cast

   1957 · 103 min · Comedy · Music · Romance

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   A shy Greenwich Village book clerk is discovered by a fashion photographer and whisked off to Paris where she becomes a reluctant model.

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   • a principal cast member

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   Hooray for Love

   Strong story similarity

   1935 · 72 min · Comedy · Music

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   A wealthy young man falls hard for a beautiful showgirl, and her wily father quickly realizes the naïve boy would make the perfect investor for his daughter's new show. Comedy with music.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared theme: musical

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    Meet Me on Broadway

    Similar atmosphere

    1946 · 78 min · Comedy · Music · Romance

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    Stuffy amateur director Eddie Dolan decides to mount a show for the well-connected patrons of a posh country club. Eddie and his girlfriend, actress Ann Stallings, hope the production will launch their legitimate Broadway careers. But complications arise when Maxine Whitaker, daughter of a wealthy rival club owner, becomes romantically interested in charming Eddie.

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    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • a closely matched era

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