Nora and her uncle get railroaded into spending the night at a broken-down hotel in Canada. After Nora falls for the handsome owner, she convinces her uncle to invest in the inn and modernize it. After the hotel opens, Nora's uncle faces financial ruin and her romance hit a snag in the form of pretty reporter.
Practical Effects
Henie's genuine Olympic choreography on cramped soundstage ice.
Costume
Sakall's increasingly absurd fur coats—character through outerwear.
Acting
Carole Landis serving acid-tongued reporter while the film forgets her plotline.
Director
John Brahm
Sonja Henie
Nora Ostgaard
Jack Oakie
Skip Hutton
Cesar Romero
Brad Barton
Carole Landis
Flossie Fouchere
S.Z. Sakall
Hjalmar Ostgaard
Cornel Wilde
Freddy Austin
Bess Flowers
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Gino Corrado
Willie, Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
George Davis
Waiter (uncredited)
Woody Herman
Himself (leader, Woody Herman and His Orchestra)
Eugene Borden
Workman (uncredited)
Matt Briggs
Russell Carter (uncredited)
Jean De Briac
Moving Man (uncredited)
Sayre Dearing
Bar Patron (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Henie demanded 20% of the gross and final cut approval, making her one of 1943's highest-paid women in Hollywood—rare power that shows in every gratuitous skate sequence.
Shot in 1942 and held for release, this was Columbia's attempt to replicate 20th Century-Fox's Henie formula while WWII made 'neutral Canada' a safe stand-in for occupied Europe.
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