Ice-Capades

  • Comedy
  • Music
  • Romance
8/19/1941
88
NR

IT'S DAZZLING! a thousand laughs...and thrills...as Hollywood's Gay Blades take to skates to "sleigh" the Blues!

Bob Clemens is a cameraman for newsreels. Assigned to shoot the Swiss ice skater Karen Vadja, he arrives too late, so decides to film a woman skating on a different New York rink and pass her off as Karen. The scheme backfires when promoter Larry Herman takes a look at Bob's film and decides to make the skater a star. Unfortunately, it's actually amateur (and illegal immigrant) Marie Bergin in the newsreel footage, not the great figure skater from Switzerland. Chaos ensues as Bob tries to straighten everybody out.

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  • Geronimo1967

    Is that a moustache or are you wearing a squirrel? and thats one of the better quips from this rather mixed up musical comedy. It centres around the cynical Bob (James Ellison) who was supposed to film some ice skaters, but missed the plane! Reckoning that one of those critters looks just like another, he heads to the local rink in Central Park where he encounters the versatile young Marie (Dorothy Lewis) whom he thinks will make perfect fodder for his film. Job done, he hopes to forget all about it but promoter Larry (Phil Silvers) sees the thing and reckons she has what it takes to star in his Ice-capades feature. A deal is duly done, but when he comes face to face with his signing, he discovers that she isnt what he was expecting and th...

    July 26, 2025

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