Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Sonja Henie | ... | Trudi Hovland | |
Tyrone Power | ... | Jimmy Sutton | |
Rudy Vallee | ... | Roger Maxwell | |
Edna May Oliver | ... | Aunt Phoebe | |
Mary Healy | ... | Jean Varick | |
Lyle Talbot | ... | Willie Hogger | |
Alan Dinehart | ... | George 'Whit' Whitney | |
Minna Gombell | ... | Jenny | |
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Stewart Reburn | ... | Trudi's Skating Partner |
Spencer Charters | ... | Joe Clayton | |
Charles Brokaw | ... | Assistant Director | |
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The Brian Sisters | ... | Schoolroom Vocal Trio |
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John Hiestand | ... | Radio Announcer |
George Chandler | ... | Taxi Driver | |
Irving Bacon | ... | Justice of the Peace Harvey Vaughan |
Jimmy Sutton, tricky publicist for Consolidated Pictures, fetches teacher Trudi Hovland from snowy Minnesota to sunny Hollywood to test for the film of the best-seller "Girl of the North" - having come 436th in a competition several years earlier she is now next choice as leading lady. She gets the part, but despite his own growing attraction for her Jimmy deviously manufactures a romance between her and Roger Maxwell, a new star who desperately needs to pep-up his image. Written by J-26
This is the first Sonja Henie movie that I've seen in my entire life and I love her ever since. This excellent movie portraits the 1930's Hollywood film-making system having Tyrone Power as a "Consolidated Pictures" agent who discovers skating teacher Henie and makes her a "Hollywood Star". Excellent musical and well-acted movie. Lots of musicals and skating numbers performed by Rudy Vallee, Mary Healy and Sonja Henie.