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The Ice Follies of 1939 is a american film of genre Drama released in USA on 10 march 1939 with Joan Crawford

The Ice Follies of 1939 (1939)

The Ice Follies of 1939
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Released in USA 10 march 1939
Length 1h22
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Musical
Rating52% 2.607122.607122.607122.607122.60712

The Ice Follies of 1939 is a 1939 American musical drama film directed by Reinhold Schünzel, and starring Joan Crawford, James Stewart, Lew Ayres and Lewis Stone.

Using a show business backdrop, and featuring The International Ice Follies, Crawford plays Mary, an actress, who marries an ice skater and encounters career and relationship issues.

Synopsis

Larry Hall (James Stewart) and Eddie Burgess (Lew Ayres) have a successful skating act until Larry falls in love with Mary McKay (Joan Crawford), an inept skater whom Larry insists upon including in the act. Fired from job after job because of Mary's ineptitude, Larry keeps up his spirits by dreaming of producing a colossal ice show. Following their latest dismissal, the couple elope, and Mary, feeling guilty for damaging her husband's career, convinces Douglas Tolliver, Jr. (Lewis Stone), the head of Monarch Studios, to offer her a movie contract.

Actors

Joan Crawford

(Mary McKay)
James Stewart

(Mort Hodges)
Lew Ayres

(Eddie Burgess)
Lewis Stone

(Douglas Tolliver Jr.)
Lionel Stander

(Mort Hodges)
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