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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. (official distributor synopsis)
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Poor Hedy Lamarr. She was incredibly miscast here, and no wonder, next to the nineteen-year-old Garland and twenty-year-old Turner, any other twenty-eight-year-old goddess would have looked somewhat less vivid. Fortunately, it's all based on the magic of Busby Berkeley's magical choreography and the extravagance of Ziegfeld's shows.
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