* Borzoi can also been seen in cameo roles in the films Love at First Bite, Legends of the Fall (" Notchee Boy "), Excalibur, All Dogs Go to Heaven ( 1989 ), Bride of Frankenstein, Easter Parade, Wolfen, Ziegfeld Follies, Onegin ( 1999 ), Gangs of New York ( 2002 ), Chaplin, The Avengers ( TV series ), JAG, Maverick ( 1994 ), Sleepy Hollow, Last Action Hero, and A Knights Tale ( on the DVD deleted scenes ).

Arden's Broadway debut came in 1934, when she was cast in that year's Ziegfeld Follies revue.

* 1936 – Baby Snooks, played by Fanny Brice, debuts on the radio program The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air.

The story concerns a reunion in a crumbling Broadway theatre, scheduled for demolition, of the past performers of the " Weismann's Follies ," a musical revue ( based on the Ziegfeld Follies ), that played in that theatre between the World Wars.

Inspired by a New York Times article about a gathering of former showgirls from the Ziegfeld Follies, they decided upon a story about ex-showgirls.

* 1907 – Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.

Thus, the Ziegfeld Follies is born, a lavish production filled with beautiful women.

Berlin's work was featured in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1918, 1919, and 1920.

The Great Ziegfeld takes many key liberties with Ziegfeld's life and with the history of the Follies.

Her maternal grandparents were Millicent Green, a dancer with the George White's Scandals, a series of 1920s musical revues similar to the Ziegfeld Follies, and Johnny McAfee, a multireedist and vocalist of the big band era ; her grandparents met while touring with Johnny Hamp and his orchestra.

Also in her pocket was a letter of introduction for Norma, acquired from a local theatre owner, to Florenz Ziegfeld, who was currently preparing a new season of his famous Follies.

His next partner, Lucille Bremer, was featured in two lavish vehicles, both directed by Vincente Minnelli: the fantasy Yolanda and the Thief, which featured an avant-garde surrealistic ballet, and the musical revue Ziegfeld Follies ( 1946 ), which featured a memorable teaming of Astaire with Gene Kelly to " The Babbit and the Bromide ," a Gershwin song Astaire had introduced with his sister Adele back in 1927.

He first presented Jerome Kern's " The Way You Look Tonight " in Swing Time ( 1936 ); the Gershwins ' " They Can't Take That Away From Me " in Shall We Dance ( 1937 ), " A Foggy Day " and " Nice Work if You Can Get it " in A Damsel in Distress ( 1937 ); Johnny Mercer's " One for My Baby " from The Sky's the Limit ( 1943 ) and " Something's Gotta Give " from Daddy Long Legs ( 1955 ); and Harry Warren and Arthur Freed's " This Heart of Mine " from Ziegfeld Follies ( 1946 ).

* Ziegfeld Follies ( 1946 )

Bert Williams was the only black member of the Ziegfeld Follies when he joined them in 1910.

Much later, it was reprised in the ballet " Limehouse Blues " featuring Fred Astaire and Lucille Bremer in the musical film Ziegfeld Follies ( 1946 ).

He began appearing in motion pictures in a comedy series pairing him with silent film legend Buster Keaton and continuing with The Wet Parade ( 1932 ), Broadway to Hollywood ( 1933 ), The Man Who Came to Dinner ( 1942, playing " Banjo ", a character based on Harpo Marx ), Ziegfeld Follies ( 1946 ), Billy Rose's Jumbo ( 1962, based on the 1935 musical ) and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ( 1963 ).

Ziegfeld Follies Girl and Silent Film Star, the original Flapper girl.

* Ula Love — Actress, Singer, Ziegfeld Follies Performer

After this, Haney appeared in a few shows, including the touring production Ziegfeld Follies of 1956, but developed paralyzing stage fright.

This was followed by Two Sisters from Boston and guest appearances in Ziegfeld Follies and Till the Clouds Roll By.

His vaudeville rope act led to success in the Ziegfeld Follies, which in turn led to the first of his many movie contracts.

Will Rogers at the Ziegfeld Follies.

* Ziegfeld Follies ( 1946 )

* Ziegfeld Follies ( 1946 )

* Ziegfeld Follies ( 1946 )

In Ziegfeld Follies ( 1946 ) she performed " Love " by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane.

Robert Orben published his first gag book at the age of 18 in 1946, when he was working in Stuart Robson Jr .' s ( stage manager for Florenz Ziegfeld ) conjuror's shop in New York.

* Ziegfeld Follies ( 1946 )

* " This Heart of Mine " ( 1946 ) w. Arthur Freed for Ziegfeld Follies

A film recreating the Follies with an all-star cast, Ziegfeld Follies, was produced in 1946.

Bolton's screen credits include Ambassador Bill ( 1931 ), Week-End at the Waldorf ( 1945 ), Ziegfeld Follies ( 1945 ), Till the Clouds Roll By ( 1946 ), Easter Parade ( 1948 ) and the German adaptation of his play Adorable Julia ( 1962 ).

She first appeared with Astaire in a brief routine in Ziegfeld Follies ( produced in 1944 and released in 1946 ).

She made her screen debut in Meet Me in St. Louis ( 1944 ) as Judy Garland's sister, and followed this with a co-starring role opposite Fred Astaire in Yolanda and the Thief ( 1945 ), and a featured dance performance, once again with Astaire, in two memorable sequences in Ziegfeld Follies ( 1946 ).

* Ziegfeld Follies ( 1946 )

*" The Babbitt and the Bromide "-Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire from Ziegfeld Follies ( 1946 )

* Here's to the Girls-Fred Astaire from ( Ziegfeld Follies ) 1946

* Ziegfeld Follies ( 1946 )

* Ziegfeld Follies ( 1946 ) ( voice ) ( uncredited ) as Telephone Operator

Films shown in roadshow format before 1953 included silent epics such as The Birth of a Nation ( 1915 ), Intolerance ( 1916 ), The Covered Wagon ( 1923 ), The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1923 ), The Ten Commandments ( 1923 ), Ben-Hur ( 1925 ), The Big Parade ( 1925 ), and other films such as The Phantom of the Opera ( 1925 ), the first Oscar winner Wings ( 1927 ), the very first feature length part-talkie The Jazz Singer ( 1927 ), the silent film Chicago ( 1927 ) ( based on the play that inspired the Kander and Ebb Broadway musical and Oscar-winning film ), Show Boat ( 1929 ) ( a part-talkie based not on the 1927 stage musical but on Edna Ferber's original novel from which the musical was adapted ), The Desert Song ( 1929 ), Rio Rita ( also 1929 ), Cecil B. DeMille's The Sign of the Cross ( 1932 ), the all-star Oscar winning Grand Hotel ( 1932 ), the Oscar-winning biopic The Great Ziegfeld ( 1936 ), the classic films Lost Horizon ( 1937 ), Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ), Fantasia ( 1940 ), For Whom the Bell Tolls ( 1943 ) and The Song of Bernadette ( 1943 ), the wartime tear-jerker Since You Went Away ( 1944 ), Samuel Goldwyn's Oscar-winning postwar epic The Best Years of Our Lives ( 1946 ), the flamboyant Western Duel in the Sun ( also 1946 ), and the biopic Joan of Arc starring Ingrid Bergman ( 1948 ), as well as some other DeMille epics, such as Samson and Delilah ( 1949 ).

* 1927 – Show Boat, considered to be the first true American musical, opens at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Broadway.

* 1867 – Florenz Ziegfeld, American theater producer ( d. 1932 )

* January 6 – A revised and streamlined revival of Kern and Hammerstein's Show Boat opens on Broadway at the Ziegfeld Theatre.

* March 21 – Florenz Ziegfeld, American theatrical producer ( d. 1932 )

For " Top Hat, White Tie and Tails ", probably Astaire's most celebrated tap solo, the idea for the title song came from Astaire who described to Berlin a routine he had created for the 1930 Ziegfeld Broadway flop Smiles called " Say, Young Man of Manattan ," in which he gunned down a chorus of men – which included teenagers Bob Hope and Larry Adler – with his cane.

* January 6 – A somewhat revised and streamlined revival of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's Show Boat opens on Broadway at the Ziegfeld Theatre, the same theatre at which the original production played back in 1927.

* October 3 – Jeanne Eagels, Ziegfeld girl and actress ( b. 1894 )

at Mermaid Theatre ( 1986 ); Sister Mary Amnesia in Nunsense at Fortune Theatre ( 1987 ; and singing on the original London cast album ); Fanny Brice and other comediennes in Ziegfeld ( 1988 ) at the London Palladium ( which held the record, according to the Guinness Book of Records, for " Greatest Theatrical Losses "); and Dick Whittington in Poppy at Half Moon Theatre ( 1988 – 89 ).

Her father, John George Lange ( 1885 – 1942 ), was a cellist and the music arranger for Florenz Ziegfeld and conductor for Henry Cohen ; her mother, Minette ( née Buddecke ) ( 1898 – 1970 ), was an actress.

In 1916, they had one daughter, Patricia Ziegfeld Stephenson ( 1916 – 2008 ).

* The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air – 1932

* Ziegfeld Follies of 1934 – 1934

* Ziegfeld Follies of 1936 – 1936

* Ziegfeld Follies of 1943 – 1943

Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. ( March 21, 1867-July 22, 1932 ), ( sometimes also called " Flo " Ziegfeld ), was an American Broadway impresario, notable for his series of theatrical revues, the Ziegfeld Follies ( 1907 – 1931 ), inspired by the Folies Bergère of Paris.