by Hal Erickson
synopsis
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
- Down On Their Luck
- Ladder To The Top
- Skater
- Skating
- Figure-skating
- Figure-skater
- Songwriting
- Star
- Widower
- Songwriter
- Sports
- Romance
- Ice-skating
- Love
- Mother
