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  Auction History Result #492 ZIEGFELD FOLLIES 8x10 '45 Astaire &Kelly Date Sold 12/11/2001Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. Original Vintage Theatrical 8x10 Still (Learn More) Ziegfeld Follies, the 1945 Vincente Minnelli all-star musical comedy ("Greatest production since the birth of motion pictures!"; "MGM's Greatest show of stage and screen"; "James Melton & Marion Bell - Love songs, dance and spectacle in a midnight masquerade!"; "Fred Astaire & Lucille Bremer thrillingly dance into your heart in 'This Heart of Mine'!"; Fred Astaire & Lucille Bremer in 'Limehouse Blues'... A love-dream in moody Chinatown!"; "Fred Astaire & Gene Kelly in 'The Babbitt and The Bromide'... Terrific tapping twosome in a grand Gershwin number!"; Victor Moore & Edward Arnold - They don't pay the two dollars... But deliver two thousand laughs!"; showing Flo Ziegfeld looking down from heaven and organizing the ultimate musical!) starring Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball ("Whip-wielding Queen of the Gorgeous Panther Girls!"), Lucille Bremer, Fanny Brice ("wins the sweepstake in uproarious comedy sketch!"), Judy Garland ("sings to thrill you in a de luxe dancing sketch!"), Kathryn Grayson ("sings the Grand Finale, a high note of melody and Technicolor magic!"), Lena Horne ("makes 'Love' a sultry song sensation!"), Gene Kelly, James Melton, Victor Moore, Red Skelton ("shows what might happen... 'When Television Comes!'"), Esther Williams ("Beauty in an underwater wonder-world!"), Marion Bell, Cyd Charisse, Hume Cronyn, William Frawley, William Powell ("as the Great Ziegfeld plans his greatest show!"; as Flo Ziegfeld), Keenan Wynn ("makes a phone call. It's a long-distance laugh-riot!"), Virginia O'Brien, Eddie Cantor, Robert Lewis, and "Bunin's Puppets". Note that this movie is the one that has the only joint dancing appearance of Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire! Also note that this movie had a huge number of "Ziegfeld Girls" appearing throughout, and most of them were unknown beautiful young girls who were "gleaned from college campus, the stage, department stores, modeling salons, everywhere"! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this still is from the famous sequence "The Babbitt and the Bromide", which was the only time Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly ever worked together in a musical! Condition: very good. There are faint minor creases throughout the still that aren't very noticeable or distracting. Learn More about condition grades 
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