1. The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
This is a fictionalized biography of Florenz Ziegfeld, a real life Broadway impresario. The film tracks Ziegfeld's life from his beginnings as a promoter at the Chicago World's Fair, to his success as a Broadway producer, to his death. The most prominent issue with this film is the musical numbers. Naturally, this film features many of Ziegfeld's stage productions, and these scenes are certainly a visual spectacle. However, they drag on and on. There is one scene that must be twenty minutes or more by itself. Over a quarter of the movie is made up of these musical numbers and they have absolutely nothing to do with the plot! The only part of this movie I enjoyed was seeing the actors who played the Wizard and the Scarecrow from “The Wizard of Oz” in other roles.