Well, it's just all pretty boring. We get ice skater Sonja Henie (Trudi) blatantly under-used when it comes to demonstrating her actual talent of ice-skating and she performs some bland routines. She is also not a babe that someone like agent Tyrone Power (Jimmy) would fall in love with. He is too good-looking for her and would be better suited to a Marlene Dietrich type. Henie really belongs with someone like singer Rudy Vallee (Roger) which makes up another of the plot elements. She is plucked from obscurity to star in the smash-hit film of the year and is given a false romance with up-and-coming singer Vallee to keep up appearances and help propel his singing career. Of course, Vallee has a girlfriend and Henie has a boyfriend who just gets written out of this film! It's a comedy and so a very unrealistic love outcome resolves itself by the end of the film.
Yep, it's boring. Edna May Oliver (Phoebe) as Henie's aunt provides some knowing comedy and Vallee is a good singer. The most memorable thing about the film is a song in the diner with some fat girls singing. I prefer the thin girls dressed as waitresses singing a la Andrews Sisters in the same number. The film is a let-down and Power is miscast even though he is fine in the role. Sonja Henie is a funny looking thing so it is quite amusing to look at her whenever she is on screen.
Yep, it's boring. Edna May Oliver (Phoebe) as Henie's aunt provides some knowing comedy and Vallee is a good singer. The most memorable thing about the film is a song in the diner with some fat girls singing. I prefer the thin girls dressed as waitresses singing a la Andrews Sisters in the same number. The film is a let-down and Power is miscast even though he is fine in the role. Sonja Henie is a funny looking thing so it is quite amusing to look at her whenever she is on screen.