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An ice skater jeopardizes her marriage after she becomes a movie star.An ice skater jeopardizes her marriage after she becomes a movie star.An ice skater jeopardizes her marriage after she becomes a movie star.
Louis Adlon
- Dress Designer
- (uncredited)
King Baggot
- Man in Audience
- (uncredited)
Marie Blake
- Effie Lane - Tolliver's Secretary
- (uncredited)
Wade Boteler
- Policeman in Central Park
- (uncredited)
Truman Bradley
- Paul Rodney
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Eddie Conrad
- Hal Briggs
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe only film in which Joan Crawford was seen in 3-color Technicolor. A decade later Joan made a cameo in the Techicolor film It's a Great Feeling (1949), and it was another four years before she made her first all-color film Torch Song (1953).
- GoofsBess Ehrhardt is billed and introduced as 'Kitty Sherman', but an advertising placard in the movie uses her real name along with character names of some other actors.
- Quotes
Larry Hall: Stars are a million miles apart; they never touch. They live away from each other, cold and lonely - like we'll have to do.
- ConnectionsEdited into Thrill of a Romance (1945)
- SoundtracksIt's All So New to Me
(1938)
Music by Bernice Petkere
Lyrics by Marty Symes
Played in the finale and sung by Joan Crawford (uncredited) and chorus
Featured review
harmless fluff with a stellar cast
This harmless piece of fluff is moderately interesting for reasons having nothing to do with its intentions, which must have been to tap into the lucrative ice skating fan base that was packing theatres to see Sonia Henie in 20th Century Fox features at the time. This opus does have a stellar cast (Joan Crawford, James Stewart, Lew Ayres, Lewis Stone) all at their best even though utterly wasted and a vivid Technicolor ice show sequence at the end in which we get to see the above-mentioned personages in color. It is also a way to satisfy the curiosity of MOMMIE DEAREST viewers who have always wondered what FOLLIES was about since it figures in the plot of that biopic. Well, it's about nothing much and was a good example of why Joan Crawford's career wasn't a bed of roses, even though she triumphed in THE WOMEN the same year. She's actually quite good in this, playing a nice girl who chooses marital bliss over movie stardom. For half the movie she is coiffed in an unusually severe and darkly tinted manner which accentuates the severity of her features, giving her a rather cruel and drawn appearance. In some of these scenes she strongly resembles Merle Oberon. Stewart gets a chance to practice pratfalls and inventive prop handling and excels at both. At one point after his character hears joyous news, he does a somersault from a chair onto a bed and back onto the floor like a skilled acrobat. He was a consummate actor even then.
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- mukava991
- Mar 13, 2008
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- Runtime1 hour 22 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was The Ice Follies of 1939 (1939) officially released in India in English?
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