Happy Landing (1938)
YOUR WONDER GIRL...BREATHLESSLY IN LOVE...BREATH TAKING ON THE ICE...IN A SHOW AGLOW WITH HAPPINESS...A MIRACLE OF MUSICAL DELIGHT!
Bandleader and manager discover skater in Norway. They become rivals as she returns with them to America.
- Date of release
- 1938-01-23
- TMDB
- 6.2 / 10 (4)
- Runtime
- 1h 42m
- Genres
- Comedy, Music
- Director
- Roy Del Ruth
Casting
- Sonja Henie — Trudy Ericksen
- Don Ameche — Jimmy Hall
- Jean Hersholt — Lars Ericksen
- Ethel Merman — Flo Kelly
- Cesar Romero — Duke Sargent
- Billy Gilbert — Counter Man
- Wally Vernon — Al Mahoney
- Leah Ray — Specialty singer
- El Brendel — Yonnie
- Marcelle Corday — Gypsy
- Joseph Crehan — Agent
- Ben Welden — Rink Manager
Interesting facts
Happy Landing is a 1938 American musical comedy film directed by Roy Del Ruth, starring Sonja Henie, Ethel Merman, Don Ameche and Cesar Romero.
Production
In November 1937 while shooting the film Henie was injured when her skate crossed on some cotton on the ice. She soon recovered and returned to work in a week.
The production numbers involved 84 skaters under dance director Henry Losee. It was difficult finding skaters who could dance and dancers who could skate so he ended up employing half dancers and half skaters and they would teach each other. Henie later took 60 of the skaters with her on tour after making the movie.
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