The Great Ziegfeld: 1936 Best Picture

In 1936, MGM’s “The Great Ziegfeld” won the Best Picture Oscar over all these films: “Anthony Adverse”, “Dodsworth”, “Libeled Lady”, “Mr. Deeds Goes to Town”, “Romeo and Juliet”, “San Francisco”, “The Story of Louis Pasteur”, “A Tale of Two Cities” and “Three Smart Girls”.

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William Powell portrayed Florenz “Flo” Ziegfeld, and while his widow, Billie Burke, was a consultant on the project, Myrna Loy played her in the film because the studio did not feel that Burke was a big enough star to play herself.

Luise Rainer, who incidentally turned 104 on March 4th of this year, won the Best Actress award for her role as Anna Held. Seymour Felix also won for Best Dance Direction.

Some of the other films that actors and actresses were nominated for their work in at the 9th Academy Awards: “My Man Godfrey”, “Theodora Goes Wild”, “Valiant is the Word for Carrie”, “The Gorgeous Hussy” and “Pigskin Parade”. It was the first year that Best Supporting awards were handed out.

Only one clue was found about this film and it doesn’t even ask for the name of the film:

FILM BIOGRAPHIES $800: Actress Billie Burke was an adviser for a 1936 musical biopic about this “great” husband

But there were plenty of clues about Flo Ziegfeld himself:
ON BROADWAY 1913 $2000: The sufferings of Suffragettes were spoofed at the New Amsterdam Theatre in the 1913 edition of these “Follies”
LESSER-KNOWN AMERICANS $1000: Doris Eaton Travis, who passed away in 2010 at age 106, was the last surviving showgirl from these follies
FAMILIAR SONGS $1000: He wrote one of his favorite melodies, “A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody”, for a Ziegfeld Follies show
CATCHING SOME “Z”s $400: In 1924, after a year in California, Will Rogers rejoined this extravagant New York musical revue
“Z” BOYS $400: This “Follies” producer who helped create the showgirl tradition used the slogan “Glorifying the American girl”
BARBRA STREISAND MOVIES $400: 1968: Babs rises from the slums to become a star in the Ziegfeld Follies
TUNES FROM REVUES $800: In a 1921 edition of Ziegfeld’s “Follies”, she introduced “Second Hand Rose”
#RITA HAYWORTH $600: Rita’s mother, Volga Haworth, at one time performed as a showgirl with these famous “Follies”
CELEBRITY MARRIAGES $500: She was the widow of Florenz Ziegfeld when she played a witch in “The Wizard of Oz”
A.K.A. $600: Marion Cecilia Douras, who was a Ziegfeld girl when she met William Randolph Hearst

Jeopardy clues on other 1936 films:
NOW THAT’S COMEDY $2000: Charlie Chaplin’s tramp character struggles to live in an industrial society in this 1936 film
ALLITERATIVE ACTORS $1000: Getting caught in the wheels of a machine makes him go berserk in 1936’s “Modern Times”
WAR MOVIES $1600: 1936: Errol Flynn leads a cavalry unit into cannon, annihilation & everlasting glory
SEASONAL CINEMA $2000: Burgess Meredith re-created his Broadway role in this 1936 film based on a Maxwell Anderson play
_____ AND _____ MOVIES $1200: Leslie Howard was in his 40s & Norma Shearer in her 30s when they played this Shakespearean pair in 1936
HUMPHREY BOGART $1000: Bogie’s breakthrough film was this 1936 feature that shares its name with a national park
ENTERTAINING JOHNS $800: The 1936 film “Tarzan Escapes” was the third starring ths man in the title role
HIRSCHFELD $2000: This 1936 silent classic proves that Luddite disaffection can be played for laughs
OSCAR! OSCAR! $1200: For a 1936 film bio, Paul Muni won an Oscar for portraying this French scientist
OLD MOVIES $400: Paul Muni triumphs with his rabies vaccine in a 1936 biopic of this Frenchman
KATHARINE HEPBURN FILMS $600: In 1936 Hepburn played this doomed Scots queen who was married to a real-life Hepburn ancestor
BETTE DAVIS FILMS $400: 1936’s “The Petrified Forest” reteamed Bette with this “Of Human Bondage” co-star
MOVIE CLASSICS $200: Shirley Temple danced with this future TV hillbilly in the 1936 film “Captain January”
THE MOVIES $500: In this 1936 film, Humphrey Bogart recreated his Broadway role as gangster Duke Mantee
BOGART FILMS $1000: Leslie Howard insisted that Bogart recreate his stage role of killer Duke Mantee in this 1936 film
FILMS OF THE ’30s $100: 1936’s “Modern Times” was the last film in which he appeared as the Little Tramp
FILMS OF THE ’30s $200: He played a priest in “San Francisco” in 1936 & again in 1938 for “Boys Town”
FILMS OF THE 1930S $1000: In this 1936 film Gary Cooper portrayed a tuba player from Mandrake Falls who inherits $20 million
OLD MOVIES $600: Jimmy Stewart killed a Mountie in this 1936 musical, so singing Mountie Nelson Eddy chased him
SCARLET WOMEN $1000: Kate Hepburn plays a thief’s daughter who disguises herself as a boy in this 1936 Cary Grant film
ACADEMY AWARD FIRSTS: On March 5, 1936 screenwriter Dudley Nichols did this; it didn’t happen again until an actor did it April 15, 1971