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Breaking The Ice (1938)

• Director
  • Edward F. Cline
• Writers
  • Mary C. McCall Jr.(screenplay)
  • Manuel Seff(screenplay)
  • Bernard Schubert(screenplay)
• Stars
  • Bobby Breen
  • Charles Ruggles
  • Dolores Costello

  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.