Bob Clemens is a cameraman for newsreels. Assigned to shoot the Swiss ice skater Karen Vadja, he arrives too late, so decides to film a woman skating on a different New York rink and pass her off as Karen. The scheme backfires when promoter Larry Herman takes a look at Bob's film and decides to make the skater a star. Unfortunately, it's actually amateur (and illegal immigrant) Marie Bergin in the newsreel footage, not the great figure skater from Switzerland. Chaos ensues as Bob tries to straighten everybody out.
James Ellison
as Bob Clemens
Jerry Colonna
as Colonna
Dorothy Lewis
as Marie Bergin aka Anderson
Barbara Jo Allen
as Vera Vague
Phil Taylor
as Ice-Capades Skater
Alan Mowbray
as Pete Ellis
Phil Silvers
as Larry Herman
Gus Schilling
as Dave
Tim Ryan
as Jackson
Harry Clark
as Reed
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“Is that a moustache or are you wearing a squirrel?” … and that’s one of the better quips from this rather mixed up musical comedy. It centres around the cynical “Bob” (James Ellison) who was supposed to film some ice skaters, but missed the plane! Reckoning that one of those critters looks just lik...