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"King of Song and Dance Siegfried" is a song and dance romance directed by Robert Leonard and starring William Powell, Mana Roy, Louise Reiner, etc., and is one of the important masterpieces of the golden age of Hollywood song and dance in the 1930s. The film tells the legendary story of Florence Siegfesty, the founder of the largest song and dance troupe on Broadway, and the love story of him and his two wives.
Florence Siegfy was born in 1869 to the father of the founder of the Chicago Conservatory of Music, but he was interested in the management of entertainment. As a young man, Siegfried was an entertainer performer in a vaudeville show. In 1893, he went to Broadway to develop, established the popularity of the song and dance troupe, and in 1907 founded the Siegfried Song and Dance Troupe, which was famous for the large-scale song and dance of beautiful women dressed up, and won the title of "King of Song and Dance".
Siegfried stumbled upon the muscles of The Hercules Mountain Road to attract the audience's focus, so he drastically revised the content of the performance, and finally achieved initial success. When he met his fellow Jack Billing and knew that Billing was going to sign a contract with the top French singer and dancer Anna Hyde, he used various offensive tactics to get Anna to sign a contract with him, thus establishing a cabaret kingdom and winning the hearts of beauties, and Anna Hyde became his first wife. The suffered Biling complained with virtue and still sponsored Siegfried's performance plan with money.
Anna's wife as a man of "glory for american women" is not easy, and she has always suspected that her husband is picking flowers and weeds, and she finally leaves Siegfried because of actress Audrey Dane, and later, Siegfried meets and marries actress Billie Bork, and they have a daughter, Patricia. Billie gave great care and encouragement to her husband's career, and even did not abandon her husband when he was at a low point. In his later years, Siegfried's song and dance career went downhill, and he encountered the economic collapse caused by the collapse of the Stock Market on Wall Street, and the ambitious Ziggy fei died of hard work.
As the only song and dance film in the 1930s Oscars for Best Picture, "The King of Song and Dance" has epoch-making significance. The film's cabaret performances are delicate, imposing, beautiful and spectacular, and are the perfect combination of Hollywood MGM's film elements and New York's Broadway stage plays. The actors also used their excellent acting skills to create characters with different personalities, fully demonstrating the complex personality characteristics of the characters.
With an investment of more than two million, this film is a huge production, with luxurious stage settings and wonderful song and dance performances, which are pleasing to the eye. A variety of solos, solo dances, group dances, and dazzling stage sets, organs, etc., all show the luxury of Siegfried's song and dance and the heyday of Hollywood song and dance films in the 1930s.
These breathtaking scenes are pale in words, and only when you see and hear them with your own eyes will you feel them personally. And whether it is lighting or stage, song and dance performances, art forms and even actors' makeup and costumes, it still seems to have a very high artistic standard, compared with modern song and dance, no inferior, and even a sense of transcendence.
This early American-style biographical film was shot with great care, both in song and dance and costumes. Compared with the second-time award-winning film "Melody of Broadway", both films restore the highest level of performance of the song and dance drama at that time. With the advancement of stage technology and artistic expression techniques, it is obvious that "The King of Song and Dance" is more charming.
"The King of Song and Dance Siegfried" not only shows the legendary life of Siegfried, but also intersperses the ups and downs of the development of the Siegfesty Song and Dance Troupe, as well as the trajectory of other song and dance troupes spanning 40 years. Both parts show a lot of detail, making the three-hour-long film inevitably fragmented and sometimes confusing the audience.
Siegfried, the king of song and dance with a strong gambler spirit, is admirable, and his legendary life is an unrepeatable life, which vividly shows the American spirit. The Siegfried portrayed in the film is optimistic and humorous, discerning, tireless, deed-like, amorous and obsessive, innovative and nostalgic. His fame and achievements, his charisma, all looked almost perfect. It's not so much a personal tribute to him as it is Hollywood's remembrance of that era.