Breaking the Ice (1938)
Directed by Edward F. Cline
Genres - Drama, Children's/Family |
Sub-Genres - Musical Drama |
Release Date - Aug 26, 1938 (USA - Unknown), Sep 22, 1938 (USA) |
Run Time - 80 min. |
Countries - United States |
MPAA Rating - NR
Share on
Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Boy soprano Bobby Breen dons a pair of skates in the oddball musical Breaking the Ice. Escaping his super-strict Mennonite relatives, our hero gets a job singing at a Philadelphia ice-skating rink. Here he tries to earn enough money to help his beloved widowed mother (Dolores Costello) wrest herself free of those selfsame relatives. The plot requires canary-voiced Breen to share the spotlight with six-year-old skating sensation Irene Dare. Within a year, Breaking the Ice producer Sol Lesser attempted to launch another series of family musicals built around the talents of little Ms. Dare, but the first entry in this project--Everything's on Ice--was also the last.
Characteristics
Themes
Keywords
figure-skating, skating, ice-skating, love, mother, romance, songwriter, sports, stars [celebrities], widow/widower