Breaking the Ice (1938)
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. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Bobby Breen, Charlie Ruggles, (more)
- Director(s):
- Edward F. Cline
Synopsis of Breaking the Ice
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. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Breaking the Ice
- Bobby Breen - Tommy Martin
- Dolores Costello - Martha Martin
- Dorothy Peterson - Annie Decker
- Charlie Murray - Janitor
- Jonathan Hale - Kane
- Maurice Cass - Mr. Jones
- Charlie Ruggles - Samuel Terwilliger
- Robert H. Barrat - William Decker
- Billy Gilbert - Mr. Small
- Margaret Hamilton - Mrs. Small
- Spencer Charters - Farmer Smith
- John King - Henry Johnson
- Director(s):
- Edward F. Cline
- Writer(s):
- Fritz Falkenstein, N. Brewster Morse, Bernard Schubert
- Producer(s):
- Sol Lesser
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