I love how the camera angle makes her look more superior than anyone else with her being higher level than the camera and her looking forward while everyone else is looking UP ago her. A angle of empowerment
Hedy Lamar entrance on screen was amazing. She was way more stunning then Lana, in my opinion at the time, she had such a regal heir to her presence in this particular scene that outshined Lana.
The interesting take on that "I Love Lucy" episode is Lucille Ball was quite capable of pulling that scene off with every bit of skill that the extras conveyed. She was in "Zeigfeld Follies", and she was a feature in a very similar vignette - methinks there was a trained tiger 🐅 in the scene (edit: I re-watched the clip - there wasn't a tiger, it was a bevy of dancers, dressed up like black pussycats) . What I am eluding to is the fact that it takes acting skill to play a scene 'badly' - Lucille Ball had it all, in spades. The fact that her estate still makes money, everyday, every hour, every year! There will never be another.
God the entertainment of the past just blows away the utter rubbish of our own time. Thank god the golden age has been made available by todays technology god alone knows what we are passing on to the future from today!!!
I love "Ziegfeld Girl" (and can't for the life of me understand why it isn't far better known); but I'm AMAZED that Lana's costume in the Follies staircase scene made it past the censors. She is as close to utterly naked as any woman in the pre-60s era of Hollywood filmmaking ever was. (Shades of Lewis Grizzard's famous distinction between Northern and Southern English: "When people up North say that you're 'naked', all that means is that you've got no clothes on. When people down South say that you're 'nekkid', that means that you've got no clothes on -- and you're up to something.") .
I always asked how the hell did passed through the censors. Not only Lana, most of the girls wears that "reveling" gowns. In the first time I thought it's a Pre-Code film.
Funny thing is, the costumes in the actual Ziegfeld shows were WAY more revealing. The ones in this movie are the sanitized version. But look at Hedy Lamarr's dress! She looks like a nun compared to the rest of those girls!
@@fliplinefungus You are absolutely correct about the real Ziegfeld costumes. The so-called "Gilded Age", followed by the Roaring Twenties (the era of the Follies) were surprisingly loose and extravagant in many ways. Whether it was Lillie Langtry riding her gold-plated, diamond-encrusted bicycle through Central Park, or Stanford White holding a girlie show for his business associates at the Madison Square Roof, in which all of the girls were stark naked, it was definitely a high-living time. As the silent-film actress Norma Talmadge commented: "Nowadays we do things in public that we'd never dream of doing in private."
I guess you didn't watch the movie Tarzan and his Mate (1934) where Maureen O'Sullivan appears in the famous nude swim scene with Johnny Weissmuller, which later was edited out after The Hays Code came out following the movie. You can watch it now the way the director intended.
This movie also allows a major character to be a kept woman (that's Lana, of course) and even has some dialogue that's pretty racy for 1941. And this is at about the height of the Hays Code era -- the code came into full effect about 1934 and began to loosen up in the late '40s into the early '50s. Of course, Lana's badly behaved character does come to an appropriate 1940s bad end.
I do not agree at all. I never really understood the big deal about Hedy’s beauty. I agree she is pretty but no more so than any other actress of that time period. In fact, in some ways I find her beauty almost too harsh. Her features are very rigid,and her nostrils are very big. Many people compare her beauty to that of Vivian Leigh but she honestly reminds me more of Joan Crawford especially around the eyes. I just do not see her as the great beauty many do,and to me she can not hold a candle to Lana Turner who I do think of as one of the great beauties of the 1940’s.
@@martinglenn4250 Depends on your standard of beauty. If you prefer softer more glamourous beauty, Lana. If you prefer dramatic more model like beauty, Hedy. Different types of beauty
Hedy Lamarr, in my opinion, is way more rigid than Joan was (even in her later years with those horror movie eyebrows). She (Hedy) definitely was among the first stars to look like she'd had too much plastic surgery.
I love how the camera angle makes her look more superior than anyone else with her being higher level than the camera and her looking forward while everyone else is looking UP ago her. A angle of empowerment
Hedy Lamarr - the most beautiful actress ever to appear on the motion picture screen.
I saw this on my tiny tv in my room age 10. Lasting impact 50 years later.
Great staircase scene by Lana. Great acting. I'm swooning
Her ending scene in the movie made me cry… ❤️
@Tom The clip didn't show her fall.
What a finale for her character.
I come flouncing down stairs each morning like this.....
Love that!
I can never get enough of this scene or the movie.👍⭐⭐💌
Both Hedy and Lana looked beautiful. But that famous second staircase scene with Lana is why movie stars were created.
Agreed. She s. incandescent
Hedy Lamar entrance on screen was amazing. She was way more stunning then Lana, in my opinion at the time, she had such a regal heir to her presence in this particular scene that outshined Lana.
She was stunning in a different way
they are both on the same level Lamarr as Jewish and Lana Anglo thats the only diff, both a 10+
No way Lana was much more beautiful!
Hedy was perfect
Hedy was beautiful, but she was def not the most beautiful Woman in the world. That was Rita Hayworth, Ava Gardner and Lauren Baccal
Lana was so beautiful but also a great actress!
Staircase Scene. Nothing tops Gene Tierney’s staircase scene descent in “The Razor’s Edge”. Tyrone Power is waiting for her at the foot of the stairs.
Lana Turner more than held her own to Heddy Lamar. Both are stunning beauties.
I can't watch this without thinking of Lucy Ricardo doing it.
The interesting take on that "I Love Lucy" episode is Lucille Ball was quite capable of pulling that scene off with every bit of skill that the extras conveyed. She was in "Zeigfeld Follies", and she was a feature in a very similar vignette - methinks there was a trained tiger 🐅 in the scene (edit: I re-watched the clip - there wasn't a tiger, it was a bevy of dancers, dressed up like black pussycats) .
What I am eluding to is the fact that it takes acting skill to play a scene 'badly' - Lucille Ball had it all, in spades. The fact that her estate still makes money, everyday, every hour, every year! There will never be another.
@@19gregske55 agreed.
Heddy looks like the Virgin Mary, Lana the Holy Spirit.
Magnificent!!!!!!!!
1:45 is just perfect
So elegant. But it seems that elegance has gone out of fashion. So wonderful, thrilling and breathtaking.
yeah women have realized today that they don’t have to conform to societies placements of how they should act, look, or be.
Amen
@@ringamybell and they’ve never been more whiny and discontented.
@@ringamybellyes but glamour is still fun. People partially go to the movies for the glamour fake though it may be.
Beautiful scene, Lana gorg obviously but Hedy was wearing that damn thing looking like a Goddess♀ x
God the entertainment of the past just blows away the utter rubbish of our own time. Thank god the golden age has been made available by todays technology god alone knows what we are passing on to the future from today!!!
From this movie, Lana Turner and Hedy Lamarr are very beautiful 🤩 😍
Hedy looks beautiful but Lana’s million watt smile is sublime !
I love "Ziegfeld Girl" (and can't for the life of me understand why it isn't far better known); but I'm AMAZED that Lana's costume in the Follies staircase scene made it past the censors. She is as close to utterly naked as any woman in the pre-60s era of Hollywood filmmaking ever was. (Shades of Lewis Grizzard's famous distinction between Northern and Southern English: "When people up North say that you're 'naked', all that means is that you've got no clothes on. When people down South say that you're 'nekkid', that means that you've got no clothes on -- and you're up to something.")
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I always asked how the hell did passed through the censors. Not only Lana, most of the girls wears that "reveling" gowns. In the first time I thought it's a Pre-Code film.
Funny thing is, the costumes in the actual Ziegfeld shows were WAY more revealing. The ones in this movie are the sanitized version.
But look at Hedy Lamarr's dress! She looks like a nun compared to the rest of those girls!
@@fliplinefungus You are absolutely correct about the real Ziegfeld costumes. The so-called "Gilded Age", followed by the Roaring Twenties (the era of the Follies) were surprisingly loose and extravagant in many ways. Whether it was Lillie Langtry riding her gold-plated, diamond-encrusted bicycle through Central Park, or Stanford White holding a girlie show for his business associates at the Madison Square Roof, in which all of the girls were stark naked, it was definitely a high-living time. As the silent-film actress Norma Talmadge commented: "Nowadays we do things in public that we'd never dream of doing in private."
I guess you didn't watch the movie Tarzan and his Mate (1934) where Maureen O'Sullivan appears in the famous nude swim scene with Johnny Weissmuller, which later was edited out after The Hays Code came out following the movie. You can watch it now the way the director intended.
This movie also allows a major character to be a kept woman (that's Lana, of course) and even has some dialogue that's pretty racy for 1941. And this is at about the height of the Hays Code era -- the code came into full effect about 1934 and began to loosen up in the late '40s into the early '50s. Of course, Lana's badly behaved character does come to an appropriate 1940s bad end.
They were beautiful women then. Hedy Lamar was absolutely STUNNING what a beauty but then Lana wow
Hedy 💙
Hedy was already a woman by this time, Lana was still a 20 year old girl. Wait till you see her in POSTMAN 3 musketeers much more beautiful !!!
Lana is beautiful...until you see Hedy.
I do not agree at all. I never really understood the big deal about Hedy’s beauty. I agree she is pretty but no more so than any other actress of that time period. In fact, in some ways I find her beauty almost too harsh. Her features are very rigid,and her nostrils are very big. Many people compare her beauty to that of Vivian Leigh but she honestly reminds me more of Joan Crawford especially around the eyes. I just do not see her as the great beauty many do,and to me she can not hold a candle to Lana Turner who I do think of as one of the great beauties of the 1940’s.
@@martinglenn4250 Depends on your standard of beauty. If you prefer softer more glamourous beauty, Lana. If you prefer dramatic more model like beauty, Hedy. Different types of beauty
Hedy Lamarr, in my opinion, is way more rigid than Joan was (even in her later years with those horror movie eyebrows).
She (Hedy) definitely was among the first stars to look like she'd had too much plastic surgery.
@@martinglenn4250 Lana was looking very nice. Hedy was looking like goddess
Lana herself later said that Hedy Lamarr was the most beautiful woman she'd ever seen.
The very first shot is of the great Eve Arden.
Eve really WAS a Ziegfeld girl. I practically flipped out when I saw her. She was a REAL Ziegfeld girl, the the others were just faking it.
Lana us absolutely gorgeous
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Song name
اجمل فنانه كانت في رئي هى جريس كيلي لان وجها فيه براء
Lana who? We all know Hedy was the one we came to see 👑
do you have a link to the full movie? please?
Houston Look here: www.lana-turner.com/25-april-1941-ziegfeld-girl/
The title of the video got my attention. 😀😂
Like the man said, she looks great going up or coming down.💯💌🌹
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White diamond :)
Mrs. Artie Shaw. Judy. Cyd Charise's man...not yet! Alice Faye's man...Tony Martin...stage name...Dino's line...
Girls, don't let your hats fall off.
So this is white diamond
Diemwnt gwyn!
Wow!…..Stars knowing how to ascend a staircase…..with poise class and beauty….What happened!
corny but irresistible
Hollywood at its most mysoginistic… 😂😂😂