I love William Powell and Myrna Loy. Somehow I’ve missed this pairing of them, outside ‘The Thin Man’ series. Powell is amazing, as always, as Ziegfeld, but the real suprise for me was Luise Rainer, who played Ziegfeld’s first wife. The scene that resonated most, when she’s congratulating him on his second marriage to Billie Burke (Loy) and you can see Anna Held’s (Rainer) heart breaking onscreen. It’s one of the most emotional gut wrenching scenes I’ve watched in awhile.
Anna’s maid asks her why she divorced Ziegfeld if she was still in love with him. “Because I was hoping it would bring him back to me,” she wails.
Hit me hard. Amazing film, well worth watching.
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This post was written by Shawna on January 16, 2010
suggestions: Greatest Show On Earth, Heaven’s Fall, Wimbledon, The Prestige, Muppets From Space, Burn After Reading.
Have you SEEN my Netflix queue? I got plenty of films to watch. Most of these are on there (though I saw Burn After Reading).