One In A Million

This was the movie that served to introduce Norwegian skating whiz Henie to America and it was a smash debut. She'd taken the Olympic medal in Germany the year before and was hot news. The big surprise was that she could speak as well as she skated, without tripping over her tongue. She never did become an actress, but her smile and her athleticism were winning on the screen. (Off-screen, she was a shrewd businesswoman who amassed a fortune in investments and as the producer-star of her own touring ice shows, in which she performed until retiring at the age of 57 in 1960.) The ice is thicker than the plot in this picture, which features Menjou as a two-bit Z...