Ziegfeld Follies the film by MGM is a 1946 musical comedy with seven directors including Lemuel Ayers, Roy Del Ruth, Robert Lewis, Vincente Minelli, Merrill Pye,
The stars line up was many of MGM leading talents, including Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Lucille Ball, Judy Garland, Lena Horne among others.
Producer Arthur Freed wanted to create a film along the lines of the Ziegfeld Follies Broadway shows, the film is a sequence of unrelated lavish musical and comedy sketches released 1946 to critical and box-office success.
Sit back and Enjoy The Babbitt And The Bromide number, the only big screen pairing of Kelly and Astaire.