THE ICE FOLLIES OF 1939 (1939) ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Reinhold Schunzel
Joan Crawford, James Stewart, Lew Ayres,
Lewis Stone, Lionel Stander, Bess Ehrhardt
Stewart and Crawford play ice skaters who decide to get married at a point when they're both broke and out of work. Ambition causes them to spend their first year together apart, during which time she becomes a movie star and he struggles to mount an elaborate ice show. The storytelling is slight, but fans of ice shows should appreciate the skating sequences. The studio was MGM, so the production values are high-end, and Technicolor kicks in for the climactic production number.
