The Ice Follies of 1939
(1939)
83 mins | Drama, Musical | 10 March 1939
Cast:
Joan Crawford, James Stewart, Lew Ayres [ More ]Director:
Reinhold SchunzelWriters:
Leonard Praskins, Florence Ryerson, Edgar Allan WoolfProducer:
Harry RapfCinematographer:
Joseph RuttenbergEditor:
W. Donn HayesProduction Designer:
Cedric GibbonsProduction Company:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.The working title of this film was Ice Follies. Whereas onscreen credits list only Eddie and Roy Shipstead and Oscar Johnson as members of the Ice Follies, the reviews include Harris Legg and LaVerne Busher as members, too. According to the Var review, Joan Crawford recorded three songs for this fllm, all of which were cut. The review also notes that for this picture, art director Merrill Pye designed the first mechanical set to operate on ice. The final Cinderella sequence was filmed in technicolor. ...
The working title of this film was Ice Follies. Whereas onscreen credits list only Eddie and Roy Shipstead and Oscar Johnson as members of the Ice Follies, the reviews include Harris Legg and LaVerne Busher as members, too. According to the Var review, Joan Crawford recorded three songs for this fllm, all of which were cut. The review also notes that for this picture, art director Merrill Pye designed the first mechanical set to operate on ice. The final Cinderella sequence was filmed in technicolor.
Larry Hall and Eddie Burgess have a successful skating act until Larry falls in love with Mary McKay, an inept skater whom Larry insists upon including in the act. Fired from job after job because of Mary's ineptitude, Larry keeps up his spirits by dreaming of producing a colossal ice show. Following their latest dismissal, the couple elope, and Mary, feeling guilty for damaging her husband's career, convinces Douglas Tolliver, Jr., the head of Monarch Studios, to offer her a contract. While reading the fine print of the contract, Mary discovers that she is forbidden to marry without the studio's permission, and Larry convinces her to keep their marriage a secret. After his wife's first picture catapults her to stardom, Larry finds himself relegated to the position of househusband and leaves for New York in hopes of producing his ice extravaganza. In New York, Larry is reunited with Eddie in the office of producer Mort Hodges, who raises the money to make Larry's dream a reality. Larry's Ice Follies becomes a smash hit, and with husband and wife now equal in stature, Mary and Larry hope to revive their marriage. When they discover that they are still separated by the demands of their careers, however, Mary publicly announces that she is foresaking her career to return to a life of domesticity. The impasse of their conflicting careers is finally bridged when Tolliver hires Larry to produce an ice show starring his wife, thus uniting their personal and professional ...
Larry Hall and Eddie Burgess have a successful skating act until Larry falls in love with Mary McKay, an inept skater whom Larry insists upon including in the act. Fired from job after job because of Mary's ineptitude, Larry keeps up his spirits by dreaming of producing a colossal ice show. Following their latest dismissal, the couple elope, and Mary, feeling guilty for damaging her husband's career, convinces Douglas Tolliver, Jr., the head of Monarch Studios, to offer her a contract. While reading the fine print of the contract, Mary discovers that she is forbidden to marry without the studio's permission, and Larry convinces her to keep their marriage a secret. After his wife's first picture catapults her to stardom, Larry finds himself relegated to the position of househusband and leaves for New York in hopes of producing his ice extravaganza. In New York, Larry is reunited with Eddie in the office of producer Mort Hodges, who raises the money to make Larry's dream a reality. Larry's Ice Follies becomes a smash hit, and with husband and wife now equal in stature, Mary and Larry hope to revive their marriage. When they discover that they are still separated by the demands of their careers, however, Mary publicly announces that she is foresaking her career to return to a life of domesticity. The impasse of their conflicting careers is finally bridged when Tolliver hires Larry to produce an ice show starring his wife, thus uniting their personal and professional lives.
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