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Academy Award and Golden Globe-winners Joan Crawford (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Mildred Pierce) and Jimmy Stewart (It's Wonderful Life, Vertigo, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington) star. Larry (Stewart) and Mary (Crawford) are a husband and wife whose marriage is on thin ice when she gets a Hollywood film contract and he must work in the East.
While Larry is having a tough time finding skating engagements, Mary is rising fast as a major film star. To be with her spouse, Mary offers to give up her career. A kind-hearted producer does his part to keep the pair together and finds Larry a job as a film producer. The film comes to life with a 17-minute Technicolor finale of a Cinderella fantasy performed by the International Ice Follies.
Original Release
03/10/1939
US Release
03/10/1939
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Joan Crawford | Mary McKay |
James Stewart | Larry Hall / Mort Hodges |
Lew Ayres | Eddie Burgess |
Lewis Stone | Douglas Tolliver Jr. |
The International Ice Follies | Ice Skating Troupe |
Bess Ehrhardt | Kitty Sherman |
Roy Shipstad | Roy Shipstad - Ice Follies Skater / Roy Shipstad, Ice Follies Skater |
Eddie Shipstad | Eddie Shipstad - Ice Follies Skater / Eddie Shipstad, Ice Follies Skater |
Oscar Johnson | Oscar Johnson - Ice Follies Skater / Oscar Johnson, Ice Follies Skater |
Lionel Stander | Mort Hodges |
Directors
Writers
Leonard Praskins, Florence Ryerson, Edgar Allan Woolf, James Kevin McGuinness
Cast
Name | Character |
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Joan Crawford | Mary McKay |
James Stewart | Larry Hall / Mort Hodges |
Lew Ayres | Eddie Burgess |
Lewis Stone | Douglas Tolliver Jr. |
The International Ice Follies | Ice Skating Troupe |
Bess Ehrhardt | Kitty Sherman |
Roy Shipstad | Roy Shipstad - Ice Follies Skater / Roy Shipstad, Ice Follies Skater |
Eddie Shipstad | Eddie Shipstad - Ice Follies Skater / Eddie Shipstad, Ice Follies Skater |
Oscar Johnson | Oscar Johnson - Ice Follies Skater / Oscar Johnson, Ice Follies Skater |
Lionel Stander | Mort Hodges |
Charles D. Brown | Barney |
Louis Adlon | Dress Designer / Dress Designer (Uncredited) |
King Baggot | Man in Audience / Man in Audience (Uncredited) |
Marie Blake | Effie Lane - Tolliver's Secretary / Effie Lane (Uncredited) |
Wade Boteler | Policeman in Central Park / Policeman in Central Park (Uncredited) |
Truman Bradley | Paul Rodney / Paul Rodney (Voice) (Uncredited) |
La Verne Busher | LeVerne Busher - Ice Follies Skater / LeVerne Busher, Ice Follies Skater (Uncredited) |
Eddie Conrad | Hal Briggs / Hal Briggs (Uncredited) |
Hal K. Dawson | Publicity Man / Publicity Man (Uncredited) |
Edward Earle | Man with Tolliver and Director / Man with Tolliver and Director (Uncredited) |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Harry Rapf | Producer |