My Lucky Star
Credits

20th Century-Fox, 1938
Black & White, 84 minutes
Produced by: Darryl F. Zanuck
Associate Producer: Harry Joe Brown
Directed by: Roy Del Ruth
Screenplay by: Harry Tugend and Jack Yellen
(from a story by Karl Tunberg and Don Ettlinger)
Music and Lyrics by: Mack Gordon and Harry Revel
Skating Ensembles Staged by: Harry Losee
Photography: John Mescall, A.S.C.
Art Direction: Bernard Harzbrun and Mark Lee Kirk
Set Decorations: Thomas Little
Film Editor: Allen McNeil
Costumes: Royer
Sound: Eugene Grossman and Roger Heman
Musical Director: Louis Silvers
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Cast

Sonja Henie ... Kristina Nielson
Richard Greene ... Larry Taylor
Joan Davis ... Mary Dwight
Cesar Romero ... George Cabot, Jr.
Buddy Ebsen ... Buddy
Arthur Treacher ... Whipple
George Barbier ... George Cabot, Sr.
Louise Hovick ... Marcelle
Billy Gilbert ... Nick
Patricia Wilder ... Dorothy
Paul Hurst ... Louie
Elisha Cook, Jr. ... Waldo
Robert Kellard ... Pennell
Brewster Twins ... June and Jean
Kay Griffith ... Ethel
Charles Tannen ... Saier
Paul Stanton ... Dean Reed
Ed Le Saint ... Executive
Frederick Burton ... Pilsbury

from Fox Video
videotape sleeve, ©1993
Synopsis

Sonja Henie "skates brilliantly," Cesar Romero provides the predicament and Richard Greene shows love will find a way in this charming romantic comedy, "amusingly filled with ... complications ... and ... capers." (New York Times)

George Cabot, Jr. (Romero), son of a department store tycoon, tries to win his father's favor with a business proposal: boost sales by sending package wrapper Kristina Nelson [sic] (Henie) to college to wear their fashions on campus. Kristina fulfills her end of the bargain, but George gets her expelled when he involves her in his scandalous divorce. With her name tarnished, the college mired in bad publicity and the school Ice Festival without its new star, it's up to Kristina's boyfriend (Greene) to think of a plan that makes everyone look good.

[from Fox Video videotape sleeve, ©1993]
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Musical Program

Plymouth University Fight Song (?) (and variations, Chorus)
This May Be the Night (Jarrett, Henie, Greene, Ebsen, Davis)
Have You Seen Classy-Clothes Chris? (boys chorus)
By a Wishing Well (Art Jarrett & Chorus, skated by Sonja Henie)
Could You Pass in Love (Joan Davis & Buddy Ebsen, reprised by Chorus, skated by Sonja Henie)
I've Got a Date with a Dream (first finale production number: Art Jarrett, Buddy Ebsen, Joan Davis with skaters, sleds and toboggans)
Cover of Song Hits Magazine,
October 1938
 ©1938 Song Lyrics, Inc.
Notes

  • This film includes Sonja's famous "Alice Through the Looking Glass" number, which she used in her Ice Revues. If you haven't seen this number, you've missed one of the best figure skating numbers ever staged!

  • Another highlight of the film is Buddy Ebsen and Joan Davis singing "Could You Pass in Love," which was performed by a young Judy Garland on national radio shortly following the film's release.

  • VHS videotape: Fox Video, #8547, ©1993.

  • See My Lucky Star on Class Act for more information.

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    Sonja and Richard Greene
     original publicity still, ©20th Century-Fox


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