Well this is a fantastic little Hollywood film. It has a good screenplay musical numbers amazing ice skating and surprisingly decent comedy. It's a golden gem from the Golden Age of Hollywood.
George Cabot Sr runs an incredibly successful Enterprise, with businesses expanding into every facet of human life. His son George Cabot Jr is a bumbling idiot who gets married out of a whim, gets his name splashed all over the tabloids, causes a scandal for his father which could lead to financial instability and gets done in by a gold-digging wife who married him for his money. His father become so enraged at him that he's going to send him off to the middle of the country with two bodyguards to keep him out of trouble. That is until this whole financial business involving his newly-acquired wife is taken care of.
George has to escape his father's office down the fire exit. And is almost home free away from the building when he sees young girl (Kristina Nielsen played by Sonja Henie) skating in the sporting goods sections of the store. He's able to talk to the girl for a bit even managing to take her home (after pretending to be ill). All seems to be going well for George until he discovers that his wife followed him home. Now she's looking for any excuse to plant a scandal on the man and will stop at nothing to do so. He's able to lock his wife and a very Burly man that accompanied her in one of the bedrooms of his house.
George Goes to a fortune teller of all places to ask for advice. The fortune teller looking into his mystical crystal ball tell him the best solution is to take the girl who his wife is trying to plan to Scandal on and send her away as far as humanly possible. He then demands $50 from them from George. (An amount of money I wouldn't want to pay today, let alone mid thirties.)
We see George at a local staff meeting with his father and the other conglomerates of the company. They're discussing the financial success of all the major departments with the exception of women's Sporting wear, the only Department that's in the red. George Junior comes up with the idea of placing a local woman in a sporting University. Assigned with the task of wearing all various Sports clothing around everyone and every possible moment.
Not only is this considered a viable option by the executives but it also gets Chris out of the city and away from any potential scandal.
Miss Chris goes off to a university, that looks like it exists in the Santa's Workshop world. It has its own taxi service with no wheels but skis. And it doesn't have an engine because it's pulled by a horse. What a magical place indeed.
She supposed to make friends of all the local girls in the University, but has a hard time doing so when she changes her outfits 4 times a day and doesn't explain why. As you can imagine the girls are getting a little suspicious of her, or if nothing else they think she might be pretentious. She's also catching the eyes of various young men some of which are dating said girls. But none of that matters because we come to the greatest scene in the whole movie and possibly in cinematic history.
Cesar Romero and Billy Gilbert are about to have a five-minute long argument about the pistachio nuts! It's hilarious and has absolutely no bearing on the plot.
It's at this point that the film really starts to pick up. Chris has been wandering the school grounds and some of the girls want to borrow her clothing for a big ice skating competition.
She lends out her clothing in good spirits only later to discover that they dressed up a bunch of their boyfriends in the clothes and paraded them out for a comical effect.
She doesn't take this well and is only convinced to stay because of the stern personality of Larry one of the guys that fancies her.
He tells her that the girls were only having a bit of fun, and may have been a little jealous of her, thinking that she's an overly extravagant rich woman who changes clothes multiple times a day just to show off. Obviously none of them know about Chris's true intentions or the fact that she's just a normal middle-of-the-road woman. But none-the-less Larry gives her the pick up that she needs, she sticks around and decides to compete in the ice skating competition.
He tells her that the girls were only having a bit of fun, and may have been a little jealous of her, thinking that she's an overly extravagant rich woman who changes clothes multiple times a day just to show off. Obviously none of them know about Chris's true intentions or the fact that she's just a normal middle-of-the-road woman. But none-the-less Larry gives her the pick up that she needs, she sticks around and decides to compete in the ice skating competition.
Her ice skating abilities are so well-received that she ends up on the cover of Time Magazine! It means great things for Chris and the University.
Unfortunately for George Junior this also means that his wife will be aware of this and may come for him yet again.
Now he's come all the way down to the university to inform Chris that she has to go to Florida to sell off their summer clothing. Chris is very taken aback by this, she's growing to like her University and the people that she's made friends with.
George Junior does everything in his power to convince Chris to stay with the company, but Chris is made up her mind. She won't leave her friends or her College just for the sake of making better sales, now she doesn't know that a particular gold-digging wife back in New York is going to use her as a crutch to steal money from the very company she's working for. But all the less she leaves regardless.
Now we cut over to another ice skating event, it's both an amusing dance number, fun song and a massive skate show all rolled into one.
George Junior does everything in his power to convince Chris to stay with the company, but Chris is made up her mind. She won't leave her friends or her College just for the sake of making better sales, now she doesn't know that a particular gold-digging wife back in New York is going to use her as a crutch to steal money from the very company she's working for. But all the less she leaves regardless.
Now we cut over to another ice skating event, it's both an amusing dance number, fun song and a massive skate show all rolled into one.
But it seems the whole event about to crash down. Chris's name ends up in a newspaper that entangles her with George Junior and what's considered a love triangle. The university is going to suspend her for bad publicity and she's going to attempt to get back to New York to deal with the woman who put her name in the newspaper to begin with. She goes there with her boyfriend Larry and discovers that ''Marcelle La Verne'' (The Wife) is willing to drop the entire case and even alter her own story if she can get $50,000. Chris tries to go to George Junior but it turns out he doesn't have a dime to his name. He's been suspended from his local allowance and his father somewhere Havana.
They all decided that the only way they can get cash for such a price is the hold a local skating event in the skate rink of George's Company Store. Larry's going to bring the gang from the University down to play music and Chris is going to skate her heart out.
And boy does she have her, doing a complete play of Alice in Wonderland through the Looking Glass. Not only does it when the Applause of the audience in real life but it wins the Applause of George senior in the fictional world and she's able to clear her name and relive her life back at the University.
They all decided that the only way they can get cash for such a price is the hold a local skating event in the skate rink of George's Company Store. Larry's going to bring the gang from the University down to play music and Chris is going to skate her heart out.
And boy does she have her, doing a complete play of Alice in Wonderland through the Looking Glass. Not only does it when the Applause of the audience in real life but it wins the Applause of George senior in the fictional world and she's able to clear her name and relive her life back at the University.
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