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"Ol Man River"-1927-T. B.Harms-sheet music. This famous song is featured in the musical production of "Show Boat" which was produced by Florenz Ziegfeld.The man whose name was synonymous with "Impresario," Florenz Ziegfeld was born in Chicago in either 1867 or 1869. His first big brush with show business came during the World's Columbian Expedition in Chicago in 1893, when he single-handedly parlayed a circus strongman named Sandow into a household name. Three years later, he brought French musical-comedy star Anna Held to Broadway, generating capacity houses by carefully planting "exclusive" newspaper stories about her daily milk baths. In addition to transforming Held into an international celebrity, he also claimed her as his bride, a union which lasted from 1897 through 1913. In 1907 he staged his first New York revue, The Ziegfeld Follies, a girl-filled extravaganza carefully patterned after the French Folies Bergere (and with almost as much feminine nudity). For the next 23 years, he mounted an annual "Follies" presentation, each one more lavish and spectacular than the last. In the course of his long career, he made stars of such celebrated performers as Fanny Brice, Will Rogers, Eddie Cantor, Marilyn Miller, Bert Williams, and W.C. Fields; curiously, though his shows were topheavy with superb comic talent, he himself was not fond of comedians, using them primarily as "buffers" to allow the stagehands time to change the scenery, and to give his Glorified Girls time to change what few clothes they had. Towards the end of the 1920s, he began concentrating on "book" musicals like Show Boat, Rio Rita and The Three Musketeers. In 1929 he tried to expand his sphere of influence to the motion-picture world, serving as supervisor of the New York-filmed Glorifying the American Girl (in which he also briefly appeared). The following years he headed to Hollywood, where he collaborated with producer Sam Goldwyn on a Technicolor filmization of his popular Broadway musical Whoopee. Financially drained by his grandiose theatrical stagings and by the Great Depression, he died virtually penniless in 1932, forcing his widow, actress Billie Burke (whom he wed in 1917) to jump-start her career as a Hollywood character actress in order to pay off his insurmountable debts.The sheet music has been autographed on the front cover by Florenz Ziegfeld with a fountain pen in black..........BOTH SHEET MUSIC AND AUTOGRAPH ARE IN VERY GOOD CONDITION......................................
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