If it was gay, bright, and beautiful, that's how Ziggy wanted it

ZIEGFELD FOLLIES

1946

Directed by Vincente Minnelli, Charles Walters, George Sidney, Lemuel Ayers, Roy Del Ruth, and Robert Lewis

Spoiler alert: inapplicable (and as I've said before, it's difficult to be brief with musicals or anthologies, and this one's both)

Tell Mr. Ziegfeld I'm not in, and if I was in, I wouldn't see him, and if I did see him, tell him I wouldn't buy a thing

THE GREAT ZIEGFELD

1936

Directed by Robert Z. Leonard

Written by William Anthony McGuire

Spoiler alert: he needed... more steps

Busby Berkeley: When good Americans die, they go to Paris

FASHIONS OF 1934

1934

Directed by William Dieterle

Written by Harry Collins, Warren Duff, F. Hugh Hubert, Carl Erickson, 

Spoile alert: moderate