THE GOLDWYN FOLLIES

The Goldwyn Follies
Goldwyn / UA, 1938, Color, 115 minutes
Premiere release January, 1938
General release February, 1938

All singing, all dancing, all laughs and all in Technicolor...this lavish "film within a film" about a Hollywood mogul out to make the biggest movie of all time features Andrea Leeds, Kenny Baker, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, Adolphe Menjou, the Ritz Brothers, and a score by George and Ira Gershwin.

Producer: Samuel Goldwyn
Director: George Marshall
Screenplay: Ben Hecht
Music Director: Arthur Newman
Musical Score: Alfred Newman
Song Score: Ira Gershwin and George Gershwin
Art Direction: Richard Day
Choreography: George Balanchine
Costume Design: Omar Kiam
Cinematography: Gregg Toland
Film Editing: Sherman Todd

Awards: Academy Award nominations for Best Interior Decoration (Richard Day) and Best Score (Alfred Newman)

Cast: Adolphe Menjou [Oliver Merlin], The Ritz Brothers [Themselves], Vera Zorina [Olga Samara], Kenny Baker [Danny Beecher], Andrea Leeds [Hazel Dawes], Helen Jepson [Leona Jerome], Phil Baker [Michael Day], Ella Logan [Glory Wood], Bobby Clark [A. Basil Crane, Jr.], Jerome Cowan [Lawrence], Nydia Westman [Ada], Charles Kullman [Alfredo], Frank Shields [Assistant Director], Edgar Bergen [Himself], Joseph Crehan [Theater Manager], Roland Drew [Igor], Frank Mills [Prop Man], Walter Sande [Westinghouse], Alan Ladd [Auditioning Singer], Vivian Austin, Marjorie Deanne, Betty Douglas, Ann Graham, Jane Hamilton, Lynne Berkeley, Judith Ford, Evelyn Terry, Gloria Youngblood [The Goldwyn Girls], Virginia Verrill [dubbing artist for Andrea Leeds]

Musical Program: Romeo and Juliet ballet excerpt (danced by Vera Zorina); Water Nymph ballet excerpt (danced by Vera Zorina); Love Walked In (Kenny Baker); Love Is Here to Stay (Kenny Baker); Serenade to a Fish (The Ritz Brothers); I Love to Rhyme; I Was Doing All Right (Ella Logan on radio); Spring Again (Kenny Baker); Here, Pussy Pussy