#Sonja henie one in a million you tube movie#

Adolphe Menjou, a Barnum style promoter is stranded in a small Swiss town after a mysterious fire burns down the town's leading hotel. Sonia's life was destined to change dramatically in One In A Million. He also gave her good support with a cast that included Don Ameche, Jean Hersholt, Ned Sparks, Arline Judge, the Ritz Brothers, Montagu Love, and Adolphe Menjou. What he didn't cheapen was her skating routines because that purportedly is what the movie-going public was paying to see. One In A Million did not quite have the budget that Sonia's succeeding vehicles did. Very much like that other international sensation from Scandinavia, Jenny Lind in the previous century. Zanuck beat off competition from the other studios for her and she made him pay dear because she was well aware of her star status. She had just won her third gold medal for figure skating in the 1936 Olympics and was an international superstar, not to mention a national heroine in her native Norway. It's the stuff of Hollywood legend how shrewd a businesswoman Sonia Henie was. In conclusion, a mixed bag of a film with great things and poor things. Also could have done without Borrah Minevitch and his Harmonica Rascals, legendary as musicians but comedy, which is tedious and grating, is not even close to being a forte. There is too much of the Ritz Brothers, and their slapstick is bizarre and irritatingly childish at times. Adolphe Menjou, apart from a few nice moments with Judge, wildly overacts, shouting his way through his lines broadly. However, the story is wafer thin and lacks energy, with much of the comedy floundering Judge and Sparks aside, while the script is even thinner and even duller.

Arline Judge brings snappy line delivery to 'One in a Million's' best lines, while Jean Hersholt is a gently low-key father figure and Ned Sparks is amusingly acerbic. Don Ameche is a very likable leading man, and his chemistry with Henie charming. Furthermore, 'One in a Million' is lavishly shot and sumptuously designed, and while not timeless and none of them are standards the songs are pleasant enough, the best of them being 'Who's Afraid of Love'. This is advantaged by the choreography for the ice skating sequences, which are enough to make the jaw drop by their imagination and verve. Her ice skating is also out of this world. She is pert and charming, and the camera clearly loves her. Henie is one of the two best assets of 'One in a Million'. Henie does not disappoint and is one of the top attractions, but the film on the whole does. 'One in a Million' is interesting for being Sonja Henie's first American film and raised her to international stardom. Overall, I found the film a mildly enjoyable films.even with the Ritz Brothers doing their best to make me want to stop watching the picture! And, while Henie's films were odd, they also were likable.and Henie's non-threatening smile and 'nice girl' looks endeared her to folks. It was simply a product of the times.much like the Esther Williams movies of the 1940s and 50s.hard to understand now but which really clicked with audiences. Today, you wonder how folks could enjoy and even love Henie and her films. Soon, a lonely newspaper man (Don Ameche) arrives and discovers her as well.and the two work together to make Greta (Henie) a star. When they stay at a small hotel in Switzerland, Tad discovers a very talented lady practicing for the upcoming Olympics. Tad Spencer (Adolph Menjou) is a theatrical manager traveling through Europe with a bunch of talented folks.as well as the Ritz Brothers. Fortunately, the team never was that popular and they only made a few more movies than Henie.

#Sonja henie one in a million you tube movie#

While this might sound like hyperbole, I consider them the absolute worst comedy team in movie history.and only marginally less annoying than a case of ringworm! Most of their schtick consisted of being annoying, brash and singing humorous (?) ditties. 'One in a Million' is one of Henie's films.and unfortunately she was given the god-awful Ritz Brothers as supporting actors. Another inexplicable Hollywood decision was to put the Ritz Brothers in films, as they were about as appealing as syphilis. Henie was an Olympic champion figure skater who was signed to a multi-film contract by Twentieth Century-Fox.and she starred in about a dozen pictures even though she was Norwegian and didn't seem at all the movie star type. A great example is the career of Sonja Henie. Sometimes, you look back at something that was popular in Hollywood in the old days and you find it hard to understand it.