Skating in Movies (LONG)
j...@cypress.com
First post: 21-Jul-96
First revision: 01-Aug-96
Second revision: 10-Jun-98
There have been number of posts in the past about about skating movies
on the toob; mostly the Sonja Henie films. The following are all of the
movies I have found to date that contain ice skating; ANY ICE SKATING.
That includes figure skating, hockey and speed skating whether the
skating is an integral part of the movie or just background. Sonja
Henie's eleven films are noted here. It's just that I happened to have
many of the following titles on tape in a rather overly-large tape
library; something on the order of 1100+ titles, about 18 years worth of
recording. I have added all of the items posted by my fellow netters
and some more items I have located regarding this thread to this updated
file. The items added since the previous post of this file are marked
with an asterisk. Feel free to note any titles that I have missed or
have not described very correctly.
AGNES OF GOD (Meg Tilly, Jane Fonda, Ann Bancroft)
A scene where a bunch of nuns are skating on a
pond at their convent; Canada, remember. You
ever seen nuns in their complete traditional
"uniforms" SKIING? The two I encountered at
Heavenly Valley one day knew what they were
about - some Austrian order; blue habits rather
than black like most orders or the mostly white
like the Dominicans. Flying veils as they
wailed on down the slopes - an unusual sight.
APARTMENT FOR PEGGY * (Jeanne Crain, William Holden, Edmund Gwen)
Several scenes, one long, that have an outdoor
ice rink at a college in the background.
Caught one skater doing a Besti Squat; an ugly
move then (~1950) as well as now.
BABYCAKES (Ricki Lake)
Don't know anything out this one; both Olivia
Olivares and Tracie Bezerra posted notes about
it.
BAMBI (Disney full-length animation)
Not really ice skating but the scene of Bambi and
Thumper on the ice implies ice skating. Olivia
Olivares reminded me of this one.
BEAUTIFUL GIRLS * (Timothy Hutton, Matt Dillon) One of the main
characters is talking to a local teeny-bopper
while she is skating on a town pond.
BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE * (Kim Navak, James Stewart, Jack Lemmon)
A short scene at a New York park rink where the
characters portrayed by Kim Novak and Jimmy
Stewart are supposed to be skating. In the
their closeup, the skating had to be a rear
projection shot.
BISHOP'S WIFE, THE (Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven)
A scene where the Cary Grant and Loretta Young
characters are ice dancing on a simulated pond.
It was pointed out by Margaret Burwell that
these skaters were doing a part of the Kilian.
Looking at the tape again, that was the case.
I also noted that Loretta Young and Cary Grant
did some of the skating themselves, although
not the dancing.
BLADES OF COURAGE (Unknown)
Just saw a post regarding this one. Haven't seen
it.
BORROWED HEARTS * (Hector Elizondo)
A scene with the principles at an ice rink. I have
only seen the promos for this one.
BREAKING THE ICE (Charlie Ruggles)
A skating troupe on tour. Entry from the Banner
Blue movie archive program. Haven't seen it.
BY THE LIGHT OF THE SILVERY MOON (Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Mary
Wickes)
A scene where a lot of locals are skating on a
simulated pond; D. Day and G. MacRae are both
actually skating here. Once heard that MacRae
was a serious ice dancer but it wasn't obvious
here.
CARMEN ON ICE (HBO TV special - Katerina Witt, both Brians)
Joe & Mary Schirmer posted that this HBO event was
also released as a movie.
CHAMPIONS, A LOVE STORY (TV Movie)
Margaret Burwell brought this one up. I only
vaguely recall seeing it.
COOL RUNNINGS (John Candy)
A scene including figure skaters, speed skaters
and hockey players at the Calgary Olympics.
The Jamacian bobsled team was trying to learn
to run on ice in this scene.
COUNTESS OF MONTE CRISTO * (Sonja Henie)
Her last movie. Typical Sonja Henie movie; skating
featuring Henie; minimal plot.
CUTTING EDGE, THE (Moira Kelly, D.B. Sweeney, Terry O'Quinn, Roy
Dotrice)
A lot of real skating; I assume you have all seen
this one at least once. Kelly and Sweeney do
some of the skating themselves. In fact, I saw
a post some time ago from Timothy Mizerak
suggesting that the skater doing the rudimentary
single axel as Kate entered her rink late one
morning was actually Sweeney; can't tell from
the tape, though. Also, I have been told that
Moira Kelly was once a competitive skater. I
have seen posts since that dispute this; that
Kelly was just a fast learner but according to
Robin Cousins, might well have become a first
class competitor had she started early enough.
She certainly could project the typical attitude.
D2: MIGHTY DUCKS, THE * (Emilio Estevez)
Haven't seen this one.
D3: MIGHTY DUCKS, THE * (Emilio Estevez)
Haven't seen this one.
DON KING: ONLY IN AMERICA * (unknown)
A scene at an ice rink with the Don King character
skating at some rink in his white pimp suit. Only
saw bits and pieces of this one.
DOWNHILL RACER * (Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, Dabney Coleman)
A speed skating shot at some imaginary Olympics.
DUCHESS OF IDAHO, THE * (Esther Williams, Van Johnson, Elanor Powell)
A short background of the rink at Sun Valley.
This movie is sort of a swimming version of Sun
Valley Serenade.
ELLERY QUEEN: TOO MANY SUSPECTS * (Jim Hutton, David Wayne)
Julia Linthicum (jan...@access.digex.net) posted
a response about the TV movie that served as the
pilot for the short-lived "Ellery Queen" TV show
from the 1970s. It had a short skating scene at
the Rockefeller Center ice rink with Ellery and
his niece. The niece was doing her "Sonja Henie
act" and Ellery had his nose in a book. Haven't
seen it.
EVERYTHING HAPPENS AT NIGHT (Sonja Henie, Robert Cummings, Ray
Milland)
Typical Sonja Henie movie; skating featuring Henie;
minimal plot.
FANTASIA (Disney classic full-length animation)
The second music sequence in the film features some
Tinkerbell genre fairies, or pixies if you like,
ice skating. Fantasia has to be the source of
Tinkerbell for the Peter Pan feature; same pixie
dust, wings, flight motions, wand waving, etc.
FARMER'S DAUGHTER, THE * (Loretta Young, Joseph Cotten, Charles Bickford)
A scene on a pond at the home of the political
lead, probably a senator, since the Loretta
Young character ultimately ran for and won a seat
in the House; relatively daring for the late 40s.
FLASHDANCE (Jennifer Beals)
Steve Hazen posted a reminder of this one. Two
skating scenes. One where a friend of the Beals
character is skating around her. The other scene
is at some sort of local competition where the
same friend crashes in the competition several
times. (Note the non-skating scene near the
start of the movie using a CHAIR, folks.)
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY (Roger Moore, Lynn Holly Johnson, Topol)
LHJ as an Olympic hopeful and the resident jail-
bait. Skating scenes shot at Cortina along with
the skiing. Much of the movie, including the
obligatory car chase starring that absurd little
yellow Citroen C2V, supposedly in Spain, was shot
on location on the Greek island of Corfu; I recognized
a lot of the background. The location of Corfu is
left as a exercise for the reader; no ice skating
rinks there, though.
GIGI * (Louis Jourdan, Maurice Chevallier, Leslie Caron,
Eva Gabor, Hermione Gingold)
A scene where Gaston escorts Gigi to a Paris rink
where Gaston's current girlfriend is taking a
skating lesson.
GOLDFINGER (Sean Connery, Honor Blackman, Gerte Frobe)
A little skating by a pair on a small rink at the
Fountainbleu Hotel in Miami; background. Anybody
recall a similar small rink at the Jack Tar Hotel
in San Francisco; or the Jack Tar Hotel for that
matter - now known as Cathedral Hill Hotel? The
rink is history, though; it's now a banquet room.
GORKY PARK * (John Hurt, Lee Marvin, Brian Dennehy)
This movie opens at a skating rink in a Moscow
park with a closeup of a pair of ladies' skates.
GRUMPY OLD MEN * (Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Daryl Hannah, Ossie
Davis, Ann-Margret, Burgess Meridith)
This one is a little lame for skating. There is a
hockey game on a very snowy TV set in the ice-
fishing shanty of Walter Matthau's character.
HANS BRINKER AND THE SILVER SKATES * (unknown players)
A Disney version of the Dutch classic shown very
recently on the Disney channel. This is not the
one Tab Hunter (a onetine competitor) did. There
are a number of versions of this story floating
around.
HAPPY GILMORE * (unknown)
A failed hockey player with a hairy slapshot
becomes golf pro. Some hockey scenes shown.
One scene of the primary character on a rink with
a lady in figure skates. Only saw bits and pieces
of this one; looked like a loser.
HAPPY LANDING * (Sonja Henie, Don Ameche)
Typical Sonja Henie movie; skating featuring Henie;
minimal plot.
HIGH TIME (Bing Crosby, Tuesday Weld, Yvonne Craig, Fabian,
Gavin McLeod)
Two scenes of college students skating on a pond;
an obvious tank. All of the principals actually
do skate, including Crosby and Fabian - none very
well; Fabian was the best of the bunch.
HOCKEY NIGHT (Rick Moranis)
A 14 year old girl becomes the new goalie for a
boy's championship hockey team. Entry from the
Banner Blue movie archive program. Haven't seen
it.
ICE-CAPADES (Jerry Colona, Alan Mobray, Phil Silvers)
A 1941 movie; probably similar to the Henie movies.
Entry from the Banner Blue movie archive program.
Haven't seen it. Quick, what are some other movies
that Alan Mobray appears in?
ICE CASTLES (Lynn Holly Johnson, Tom Skerritt, Robby Benson,
Collene Dewhurst)
One of the few "real" figure skating movies available;
you've all probably seen this one too. If you
haven't read the novelization, Lexie was written
as doing several triple axels which, of course,
LHJ could not begin to do.
ICELAND (Sonja Henie, John Payne)
Typical Sonja Henie movie; skating featuring Henie;
minimal plot.
IT'S A PLEASURE (Sonja Henie)
Typical Sonja Henie movie; skating featuring Henie;
minimal plot. mo...@ix.netcom.com emailed about
this one; said his father was in it. Henie's only
movie in color; surprising that none of the others
have been colorized; hear that, Ted?
JANUARY MAN (Kevin Kline, Mary Elizabeth Mastranonio, Alan
Rickman, Susan Sarandon)
Some public skating in a NYC park. The Mastranonio
and Kline characters are skating here.
LITTLE WOMEN [1994] (Wynona Rider)
Haven't seen this one yet. Joe Jaucian posted that
there is a pond skating scene in it.
LONG KISS GOODNIGHT, THE * (Geena Davis, Samuel L. Jackson)
Two skating scenes. One in which the Davis'
character is challenging her daughter to skate
and a second where Davis' character crosses a
frozen lake to catch someone in a car. Geena Davis
appears to have done some and possibly all of her
character's skating.
LOVE STORY (Ali McGraw, Ryan O'Neal, Ray Milland )
Joe & Mary Schirmer posted about the O'Neal
character playing hockey. I vaguely remember
that. And no, I can't see Al and Tipper as the
models for the principals this one.
MIGHTY DUCKS, THE * (Emilio Estevez)
I have only seen bits and pieces of this one.
There was a figure skater on this team wearing
figure skates; did a spin in a game, as I recall.
MIRACLE ON ICE (Karl Malden)
Made for TV movie about the 1980 U.S. hockey team
at Lake Placid.
MONEY TRAIN * (Robert Blake, Woody Harrelson, Wesley Snipes)
Several overhead shots of the Rockefeller Center
rink and some odd shaped rink, possibly in Central
Park. These scenes were at the start of the movie.
MY LUCKY STAR * (Sonja Henie, Richard Greene)
Typical Sonja Henie movie; skating featuring Henie;
minimal plot.
ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE (George Lazenby, Dianna Rigg, Telly
Savalas)
The Dianna Rigg character (Traci Marc-Ange) skating
at a New Year festival in Switzerland as Bond
skis off of the Piz Gloria to escape Blofeld.
Hard to tell if Rigg was actually the skater.
ON THIN ICE: THE TAI BABALONIA STORY * (don't know who's in it)
A TV movie about Tai; probably ignited by the
drug abuse story.
ONE IN A MILLION (Sonja Henie, Adolph Menjou, Don Ameche)
Typical Sonja Henie movie; skating featuring Henie;
minimal plot. This one was her movie debut.
PAPERBACK HERO (Keir Dullea, Elizabeth Ashley)
Don't know if there is any actual skating. The
Banner Blue summary mentioned hockey. Haven't
seen it.
PEOPLE VS. DR. KILDARE, THE (Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Red Skelton)
A skater sues for mal practice. Don't know if
there is actually any skating. Entry from the
Banner Blue movie archive program. I do recall
hearing once that Red Skelton was supposed to be
a good skater. Haven't seen this show.
PREACHERS'S WIFE, THE * (Whitney Houston, Denzel Washington, Gregory Hines)
A remake of THE BISHOP'S WIFE. It has been reported
here that Houston and Washington do all of their
own skating; can't say for sure since there are
both close-ups and long shots. They obviously did
some of the skating.
REAL GENIUS * (Val Kilmer)
A scene in which a college "genius" dorm has people
ice skating in the hallways on genius-created ice
that sublimed like CO2 rather than melting. The
inventor said he hoped that the sublimated stuff
wouldn't explode.
ROCKY (Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burgess Meredith)
Teresa (Traz66) posted that Rocky took his future
wife ice skating on an early date; don't know,
never saw the original Rocky.
RONNIE AND JULIA * (Teri Garr)
A Showtime produced film that I saw just the end
of. There was a skater in some sort of show or
competition wearing a feathered outfit including
a mask; this outfit outdid any of Oksana Baiul's
feathered suits.
RUNNING MAN, THE * (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Conchita Alonzo,
Richard Dawson, Jim Brown)
If you have seen the movie, one of the "stalkers"
is a hockey skater using a metal hockey stick
against the "runners". He was taken out by
having barbed wire wrapped around his neck; a
good way to take care of those ersatz hockey
players infecting rinks these days, maybe?
SABOTAGE * (unknown players)
There is a scene involving a hockey game. Saw
only pieces of this one.
SECOND FIDDLE (Sonja Henie, Tyrone Power, Rudy Vallee)
Typical Sonja Henie movie; skating featuring Henie;
minimal plot.
SIX WEEKS (Mary Tyler Moore, Dudley Moore, Katherine Healy)
Joe & Mary Schirmer posted that that there was a
ballet dancer in this one that was supposed to
be a good skater also but was actually pathetic
in the movie. Don't recall seeing this one.
SKI PARTY * (Frankie Avalon, Dwayne Hickman, Debora Walley,
Yvonne Craig, Robert Q. Lewis)
A spin-off of the beach party movies; staged at Sun
Valley. One scene of three or four minutes has
what is supposed to be the outdoor rink at Sun
Valley in the background but the sunshade is
missing; possibly shot on location closer to LA?
SLAP SHOT (Paul Newman)
A minor league hockey team decides to increase
ticket sales by playing dirty. Entry from the
Banner Blue movie archive program. Haven't seen
it.
SNOW WHITE AND THE THREE STOOGES (Carol Heiss, The Three Stooges)
The Henie wanna-be movie; Carol Heiss has to cringe
every time this one is mentioned although it now
could be sort of a cult classic seeing as how the
Stooges are in it and in color, yet; one of only
two Stooge movies I know of in color. Carol Heiss
is reported to have done axels in both directions
in this one but I have never found them.
SPECIES * (Ben Kingsley)
A genetic engineered sort of horror movie. There
is a scene where a principal character is
watching a televised hockey game.
SPLASH (Tom Hanks, Darryl Hannah, John Candy)
The Daryl Hannah and Tom Hanks characters are
skating at what appears to be some rink in New
York City; not Rockefeller Center, however. It
looked to me like they did all of their skating;
no stand-ins. Both Kevin Anderson and Joe
Jaucian posted reminders about SPLASH.
STAY TUNED * (Pam Dawber, John Ritter, Jeffery Jones)
A fantasy where the Dawber and Ritter characters
are drawn through different worlds within TV.
A scene where Ritter's character is playing in
a televised hockey game.
SUDDEN DEATH * (Jean-Claude VanDamme)
The location is a Stanley Cup final game arena.
Terrorists threaten to blow the place away
during the game. Lots of hockey and a juicy
chopper crash on the ice at the end of the movie;
a crash starring the bad guys.
SUN VALLEY SERENADE (Sonja Henie, John Payne, Milton Berle)
Typical Sonja Henie movie; skating featuring Henie;
minimal plot. Probably the best known of her 11
movies. Henie also skis in this one. Did you
skiers note the chairlifts? All SINGLES; there
are none left operating that I know of other than
the one at Mad River Glen that I've read about.
The last time I rode a single chairlift was at Aspen
in 1968; the one formerly serving Ruthie's Run.
SUNDAY IN NEW YORK * (Jane Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Rod Taylor, Jim Backus)
The rink at Rockefeller Center is in the background
during a scene at a Center restaurant next to
the rink.
TELEFON (Lee Remick, Charles Bronson, Tyne Daly, Sheree
North, Donald Pleasence)
A scene where Bronson's KGB character is coaching a
boys' hockey team in Moscow.
THIN ICE (Sonja Henie, Tyrone Power, Alan Hale)
Typical Sonja Henie movie; skating featuring Henie;
minimal plot.
TO DIE FOR * (Nicole Kidman)
Olivia Olivares posted about this one. This one
had several interviews at an ice rink; even saw
someone in the background do what looked like a
triple sow. There was a marginal skater, I believe
an above interviewee, skating on the frozen river
into which the Kidman character was disposed of.
TOUCH AND GO (Michael Keaton, Maria Conchita Alanzo)
A pro hockey player is hitting on the mother of a
juvenile who tried to mug him. Entry from the
Banner Blue movie archive program. Haven't seen
it.
UNMARRIED WOMAN, AN * (Jill Clayburgh)
The Jill Clayburgh character skates at the
Rockefeller Center rink while "finding herself".
VALLEY OF THE DOLLS * (Patty Duke Astin, Lee Grant, Susan Hayward, Martin
Milner, Barbara Parkins, Sharon Tate)
A short small town pond scene at the start and
an overhead view of the Rockefeller Center rink
later in the movie.
WHEN HARRY MET SALLY (Meg Ryan, Billy Crystal, Carrie Fisher)
Public skating at Rockefeller Center - background.
WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING (Sandra Bullock, Peter Boyle)
Public skating in an Chicago park - background. Joe
Jaucian pointed out that the location here was
Chicago rather than NYC. Ya gotta pay attention
all the time.
WINTERTIME * (Sonja Henie)
Typical Sonja Henie movie; skating featuring Henie;
minimal plot.
YOUNGBLOOD (Rob Lowe, Patrick Swayze, Ed Lauter)
A minor league hockey player has to prove himself
to his teammates. Entry from the Banner Blue
movie archive program. A lot of hockey here.
I found it interesting that at least three James Bond movies have some
ice skating in them and that the two ersatz Bonds, in the persons of
George Lazenby and Roger Moore, interact with the skaters in two of the
movies.
Louis Epstein noted that something called the Figure Skating Historical
Society Journal documents ice skating in many movies. I've never see
this publication.
-jl John
Looking to add Roller Skating into this list too. I can only recall
the following right now:
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>>>>>FLASHDANCE (Jennifer Beal) Steve Hazen posted a reminder of
this one. Two skating scenes. One where a friend of the Beals character is
skating around her. The other scene
is at some sort of local competition where the same friend crashes in the
competition several times. (Note the non-skating scene near the start of the
Great list! Who knew so much skating was in the movies...but one small
correction...in Flashdance, it was the main character's younger sister that was
into figure skating. She and Alex (I think that was Beal's character's name)
were skating around together, and later they show her sister's competition. She
fell at her competition. Her father was particulary brutal about it, and hated
her skating. Then the younger sister ( in a Tonya Harding-esque type move)
takes to dancing naked on table-tops because she couldn't make it as a skater.
LOL!!!
Shelly H.
Momdarling
I both saw the movie ,I also bought it(Flashdance) The two characters were best
friends, and lived in Pgh Pa my hometown. The lead character is a dancer and
her friend is a figure skater. The scene mentioned was a tryout for the ice
capades. She has problems and doesn't make it. All things being equal,I think
this is a good choice for viewing.
Patricia Cassalia
> Great list! Who knew so much skating was in the movies...but one small
> correction...in Flashdance, it was the main character's younger sister that was
> into figure skating. She and Alex (I think that was Beal's character's name)
> were skating around together, and later they show her sister's competition. She
> fell at her competition. Her father was particulary brutal about it, and hated
> her skating. Then the younger sister ( in a Tonya Harding-esque type move)
> takes to dancing naked on table-tops because she couldn't make it as a skater.
> LOL!!!
> Shelly H.
Are you sure??? I really think it is the Beal character's FRIEND that is
the skater, they met at the place they danced at.
Patti
JulieD3964
>Looking to add Roller Skating into this list too. I can only recall
>the following right now:
>
>LAST MARRIED COUPLE IN AMERICA, THE
>XANADU
>SWING TIME
Don't forget "It's Always Fair Weather" which featured Gene Kelly dancing on
roller skates to "I Like Myself." I believe this clip was also used in "That's
Entertainment, Part II."
Julie
Julie...@aol.com
Vespertine
Very interesting and fun compilation, Jl. Re one of your comments:
<< LOVE STORY (Ali McGraw, Ryan O'Neal, Ray Milland )
Joe & Mary Schirmer posted about the O'Neal character playing hockey. I
vaguely remember that. And no, I can't see Al and Tipper as the models for
the principals this one.>>
LOL re Tipper and Al! You are right - Tipper seems more likely to be a
sorority girl in Animal House than a brilliant and talented Rhode Island girl!
However, as far as skating, in addition to 2 hockey game scenes, there is
another skating scene at the end of the movie. Oliver is skating at a rink and
Jennie is watching. When he stops (to have a hot chocolate with her, I think)
she says she wants to go to the hospital. The rest is movie history.....<g>
Trudi, gone anonymous again...
> First post: 21-Jul-96
> First revision: 01-Aug-96
> Second revision: 10-Jun-98
>
> There have been number of posts in the past about about skating movies
> on the toob; mostly the Sonja Henie films. The following are all of the
> movies I have found to date that contain ice skating; ANY ICE SKATING.
> That includes figure skating, hockey and speed skating whether the
> skating is an integral part of the movie or just background. Sonja
> Henie's eleven films are noted here. It's just that I happened to have
> many of the following titles on tape in a rather overly-large tape
> library; something on the order of 1100+ titles, about 18 years worth of
> recording. I have added all of the items posted by my fellow netters
> and some more items I have located regarding this thread to this updated
> file. The items added since the previous post of this file are marked
> with an asterisk. Feel free to note any titles that I have missed or
> have not described very correctly.
OK...
> BABYCAKES (Ricki Lake)
> Don't know anything out this one; both Olivia
> Olivares and Tracie Bezerra posted notes about
> it.
It's a CBS TV movie from 1989 back when Ricki was still a hefty chick. She
plays a funeral parlor cosmetologist whose job is making the stiffs look
good in the caskets. She falls in love with a gorgeous subway motorman who
just so happens to be a good recreational skater (that's where she first
notices him; he can do jumps and spins), and sets out to meet him and
steal him away from his fiancee. The fiancee is played by Cynthia Dale at
her snottiest; coincidentally, Cynthia also appeared in two Brian Orser
specials for the CBC.
> BLADES OF COURAGE (Unknown)
> Just saw a post regarding this one. Haven't seen
> it.
This is the U.S. home-video name of a CBC TV-movie originally titled
SKATE! and aired in 1987. It tells the story of a Canadian lady skater who
finishes third at Canadians and ends up getting groomed for stardom ahead
of the two who finished before her. Part of the process is eschewing her
small-town coach, moving to Toronto and taking from a mentally abusive
male coach. At the same time she's going through the trauma of her
parents' divorce. A real cheery movie, most notable because the character
does something she could never do in a U.S. TV-movie--she gives the
finger.
> CARMEN ON ICE (HBO TV special - Katerina Witt, both Brians)
> Joe & Mary Schirmer posted that this HBO event was
> also released as a movie.
It was originally filmed and released as a theatrical film in what was
still then West Germany. The original is almost twice as long as the HBO
chopped version, and more cohesive. But regardless, all three of the stars
won Emmys.
> CHAMPIONS, A LOVE STORY (TV Movie)
> Margaret Burwell brought this one up. I only
> vaguely recall seeing it.
Jimmy McNichol and one of the daughters in the skating LeDuc family take
up as a pair (after he quits hockey against his dad's wishes) and fall in
love. Then tragedy strikes. Jimmy did his own skating as well as Joy
LeDuc.
> FLASHDANCE (Jennifer Beals)
> Steve Hazen posted a reminder of this one. Two
> skating scenes. One where a friend of the Beals
> character is skating around her. The other scene
> is at some sort of local competition where the
> same friend crashes in the competition several
> times. (Note the non-skating scene near the
> start of the movie using a CHAIR, folks.)
Actually it's not a competition, it's an audition for an ice show.
> HOCKEY NIGHT (Rick Moranis)
> A 14 year old girl becomes the new goalie for a
> boy's championship hockey team. Entry from the
> Banner Blue movie archive program. Haven't seen
> it.
I have. No figure skating in it, though. Megan Follows of the Anne of
Green Gables TV series plays a girl who wants to join a local hockey team.
Rick is the coach.
> ICE-CAPADES (Jerry Colona, Alan Mobray, Phil Silvers)
> A 1941 movie; probably similar to the Henie movies.
> Entry from the Banner Blue movie archive program.
> Haven't seen it. Quick, what are some other movies
> that Alan Mobray appears in?
Well, I can't believe they didn't even list Vera Ralston in here. She was
the skating star of the movie. Her maiden name was Hruba. She made several
films like this, cheap Republic Pictures answers to the Henie films, full
of corny dialogue and plots. Another is LAKE PLACID SERENADE. Vera
actually wasn't that bad an actress and appeared in several non-skating
films as well.
> Haven't seen this one yet. Joe Jaucian posted that
> there is a pond skating scene in it.
Yep, there is. That reminds me: there's an old movie called MARGIE, in
which a woman in the 1940s tells her daughter the story of what she was
like as a young woman in college in the 1920s, that also has a
pond-skating scene.
> ON THIN ICE: THE TAI BABALONIA STORY * (don't know who's in it)
> A TV movie about Tai; probably ignited by the
> drug abuse story.
Yep.
> SIX WEEKS (Mary Tyler Moore, Dudley Moore, Katherine Healy)
> Joe & Mary Schirmer posted that that there was a
> ballet dancer in this one that was supposed to
> be a good skater also but was actually pathetic
> in the movie. Don't recall seeing this one.
Healy was the one. Pretty dumb movie, with Healy's character dying
suddenly and agonizingly on the subway. She's the daughter of the MTM
character, with whom the DM character has decided to have a fling and
forget about his wife for a while because the kid is dying.
> SNOW WHITE AND THE THREE STOOGES (Carol Heiss, The Three Stooges)
> The Henie wanna-be movie; Carol Heiss has to cringe
> every time this one is mentioned although it now
> could be sort of a cult classic seeing as how the
> Stooges are in it and in color, yet; one of only
> two Stooge movies I know of in color.
Hey, Carol said this was how the kids in Akron and Cleveland knew her; she
was the lady who was in the movie with the Three Stooges.
Carol Heiss
> is reported to have done axels in both directions
> in this one but I have never found them.
I have. She does 'em, I'm sure. In the beginning, I think.
> TO DIE FOR * (Nicole Kidman)
> Olivia Olivares posted about this one. This one
> had several interviews at an ice rink; even saw
> someone in the background do what looked like a
> triple sow. There was a marginal skater, I believe
> an above interviewee, skating on the frozen river
> into which the Kidman character was disposed of.
That was Ileana Douglas, who apparently learned just enough skating for
the role that she got hooked on taking lessons thereafter.
Edie/Devon
There's also that last scene in the movie "Cardinal Knowledge". (It's an old 70's
movie that also stars a very young Candice Bergen (sp?). A bit dated but a pretty
good movie.)
While Jack Nicholson is pondering away about the ideal woman, an image is
juxtaposed and it's a woman dressed all in white, skating at Rockefeller Center.
Marlene A Koenig
Diana Rigg (not Dianna) played the Contessa Tracy di Vicenzo -
Gabriele Ferzetti played her father Marc-Ange Draco.
Dame Diana did not do the skating in that scene. She appears only
in the CU, but a double did the skating.
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"Carmen on Ice" was released in theaters in Europe and appeared on HBO in the
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PosterBoy
Very impressive, John. (The list AND the collection!).
Cheers.
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Charisma
I think I've got one to add......In Home Alone, I remember the kid sliding
across a pond with skaters on it.....(And for the record it hurts to admit
I've seen Home Alone but....oh well!!)
Charisma
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Lux4989199
Great list! There was another 70's tv movie that I don't know if you included
- it starred Melissa Sue Anderson (I think that's her name) Mary from Little
House on the Prairie - she played a high school student who moved to a new town
and joined her high school "figure skating team"- h.s. figure skating teams
don't occur naturally in the known universe, as far as I know, but hey, it's a
dramatization...so anyway, there are a few scenes of the team practice, and I
think she does her own skating - then she falls in with a "bad" crowd and
starts dressing slutty and doing "angel dust" and she quits the team...Does
anybody remember the name of this movie?
Trudi Marrapodi
> There's also that last scene in the movie "Cardinal Knowledge". (It's
an old 70's
> movie that also stars a very young Candice Bergen (sp?). A bit dated but
a pretty
> good movie.)
>
> While Jack Nicholson is pondering away about the ideal woman, an image is
> juxtaposed and it's a woman dressed all in white, skating at Rockefeller
Center.
I saw that movie in college, and I believe you're talking about CARNAL
KNOWLEDGE. (Unless some movie has been made about a sex scandal at the
Vatican and I don't know about it.) I don't remember the skater in it, but
I did see it a long time ago.
Trudi
C. Mason
Hi
Read the list but don't remember if it was mentioned "Portrait of Jenny"
1940's movie about a painter and a young girl who meet in Central
Park(NY)while skating. Rather a lovely period piece set in the late
1800's early 1900's and definitly a two hankie move.
HILL JANET SWAN
>> LITTLE WOMEN [1994] (Wynona Rider)
>> Haven't seen this one yet. Joe Jaucian posted that
>> there is a pond skating scene in it.
Not exactly pond skating ..... more like creek skating. One sister falls
in and gets rescued, as I recall.
>> REAL GENIUS * (Val Kilmer)
>> A scene in which a college "genius" dorm has people
>> ice skating in the hallways on genius-created ice
>> that sublimed like CO2 rather than melting. The
>> inventor said he hoped that the sublimated stuff
>> wouldn't explode.
I love this movie (what can I say, I'm a sucker for movies like this?)
if your search revealed this as ice-skating content, then you really did
get some "fine tooth comb" work done!
How about
HOME ALONE: McCauley Culkin gets chased across the public outdoor rink in
Wilmette near the Hubbard Woods train station.
Question: can some kind soul put this nifty information on a web site?
janet
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HILL JANET SWAN
>There's also that last scene in the movie "Cardinal Knowledge". (It's an old 70's
>movie that also stars a very young Candice Bergen (sp?). A bit dated but a pretty
>good movie.)
ummmmm. isn't that "Carnal Knowldege"? (and it's Candace)
on another topic: the message from which I snipped the above consisted of
a couple of paragraphs of response to the original message PLUS the ENTIRE
original message. Please, if your software allows it, snip away all the
stuff in a quoted message that's not relevant to your reply.
Thanks for considering it
janet
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fg...@ucg.com
In article <marrapodi-120...@128.226.35.187>,
marr...@binghamton.edu (Trudi Marrapodi) wrote:
>
> In article <3580A053...@banet.net>, Edie/Devon <tue...@banet.net> wrote:
>
> an old 70's
> > movie that also stars a very young Candice Bergen (sp?). A bit dated but
> a pretty
> > good movie.)
> >
> > While Jack Nicholson is pondering away about the ideal woman, an image is
> > juxtaposed and it's a woman dressed all in white, skating at Rockefeller
> Center.
>
> KNOWLEDGE. (Unless some movie has been made about a sex scandal at the
> Vatican and I don't know about it.) I don't remember the skater in it, but
> I did see it a long time ago.
>
> Trudi
>
If you read the credits, women skating at Rockefeller Center in movies and in
TV shows ALWAYS turn out to be JoJo Starbuck...I think it is a rule.
Fred
j...@cypress.com
In article <199806112320...@ladder01.news.aol.com>,
julie...@aol.com (JulieD3964) wrote:
>
> >Looking to add Roller Skating into this list too. I can only recall
> >the following right now:
> >
> >LAST MARRIED COUPLE IN AMERICA, THE
> >XANADU
> >SWING TIME
>
> roller skates to "I Like Myself." I believe this clip was also used in
"That's
> Entertainment, Part II."
>
I have been trying to come up with the name of that movie. If I
recall the skating scene correctly; Gene Kelly was skating on a
street set in clamp-on skates - remember those? I have always
wondered what kind of an ice skater Gene Kelly might have become.
Could we have seen a glimpse of that possibility in Kurt Browning's
"Singin' in the Rain". I have put both marvelous sequences back-to-
back on a tape of favorite scenes from many movies. Another scene
that is a favorite is the dance scene near the beginning of "White
Christmas" featuring Vera-Ellen and Danny Kaye. What kind of ice
dancers would they have made?
Gene Kelly was reported to have been delighted with Kurt Browning's
version of his classic scene. I have read that it took ten hours to
shoot the skating version and I wouldn't be surprised if it took Kelly
as long to do his.
-jl John
Yo quiero Taco Bell -- Chihuahua
Sonsie Conroy
On 12 Jun 1998 14:19:58 GMT, hil...@spot.colorado.edu (HILL JANET
SWAN) wrote:
>
>on another topic: the message from which I snipped the above consisted of
>a couple of paragraphs of response to the original message PLUS the ENTIRE
>original message. Please, if your software allows it, snip away all the
>stuff in a quoted message that's not relevant to your reply.
>
>Thanks for considering it
Janet, thanks for bringing this up again. I' ve mentioned it once or
twice, but there never seems to be any response. It is SO frustrating
to download a 200-line post, only to find that 195 lines are something
you've already read six times and five lines are original!
Most of the time, I won't even "go there" if the first screen or two
is nothing but one long unbroken quote. I'm sure I miss a lot of good
commentary, but this practice makes me crazy and wastes my time. I'm
glad I'm not the only one who feels this way.
=Sonsie=
PosterBoy
fg...@ucg.com wrote in message <6lrice$jbo$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
>In article <marrapodi-120...@128.226.35.187>,
> marr...@binghamton.edu (Trudi Marrapodi) wrote:
>>
>> In article <3580A053...@banet.net>, Edie/Devon <tue...@banet.net>
wrote:
>>
>> > There's also that last scene in the movie "Cardinal Knowledge". (It's
>> an old 70's
>> > movie that also stars a very young Candice Bergen (sp?). A bit dated
but
>> a pretty
>> > good movie.)
>> >
>> > While Jack Nicholson is pondering away about the ideal woman, an image
is
>> > juxtaposed and it's a woman dressed all in white, skating at
Rockefeller
>> Center.
>>
>> I saw that movie in college, and I believe you're talking about CARNAL
>> KNOWLEDGE. (Unless some movie has been made about a sex scandal at the
>> Vatican and I don't know about it.) I don't remember the skater in it,
but
>> I did see it a long time ago.
>>
>> Trudi
>>
>
>If you read the credits, women skating at Rockefeller Center in movies and
in
>TV shows ALWAYS turn out to be JoJo Starbuck...I think it is a rule.
>
ROTFL!!!
Thanks.
Cheers.
PosterBoy
Well.................
Actually, I only intended to post on this topic in order to get the
"LONG" out of the subject line...in hopes
it will stick (or unstick, according to taste!).
However, a small grinning addition:
In the final scene of Being There, Chauncey Gardiner walks across a
pond. Surely the warmth of his
personality has "melted the ice" and the surface appears as water. And,
just as surely, his foot-shodding
has been transformed by the magic of movies to skates...all hidden from us,
of course, but I am certain
that there is a metaphor there that has escaped me to date!!!
Cheers.
Eda M. Tseinyev
Charisma wrote:
>
> I think I've got one to add......In Home Alone, I remember the kid sliding
> across a pond with skaters on it.....(And for the record it hurts to admit
> I've seen Home Alone but....oh well!!)
I have a worse one. I can't think of the title, something like THE BAD
SEED. It was a movie in which MacCauley Culkin (sp?) plays an evil
child who keeps trying to kill people, but nobody believes it because
he's so darn sweet-looking. Anyway, there's a pond skating scene
involving your typical public session rough-housing and, you guessed it,
part of the ice breaking and people almost freezing to death a la
"Little Women."
Wendi Dunlap-Simpson
(crossposted to rec.sport.skating.roller)
j...@cypress.com wrote:
> >Looking to add Roller Skating into this list too. I can only recall
> >the following right now:
> > LAST MARRIED COUPLE IN AMERICA, THE
> > XANADU
> > SWING TIME
There are tons of other movies with incidental skating scenes, but I can't
think of many off the top of my head. Here are a couple, though...
Roller Boogie (1979, I think.... Jim Bray and Linda Blair). SoCal kids try
to save their local roller rink from mobsters who want to tear it down.
Cheesy, very cheesy. Lots of skating around Venice Beach, and in the
middle of the movie Bray does a program (to a cover of a Supertramp song)
that features a great jump combination with 7 or 8 jumps in it (mostly
double loops!). Bray says he's "training for the Olympics."
Skatetown USA (1980?) Never saw this one.
Wasn't there a movie called "Boogie Wonderland" with lots of disco skating
in summer 1979? If not, there was at least some movie out at that time
that used "Boogie Wonderland" as the theme song in its commercials.
Wasn't there a skating scene in Heaven's Gate? I remember seeing a
publicity photo that showed a skating scene.
Can anyone else fill in some more movies here?
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In article
<litlnemo*deletethistomailme*-1206981...@winsor.slumberland.seattle.wa.
us>, litlnemo*deletethistomailme*@slumberland.seattle.wa.us (Wendi
Dunlap-Simpson) wrote:
>
> (crossposted to rec.sport.skating.roller)
>
> j...@cypress.com wrote:
>
> > >Looking to add Roller Skating into this list too. I can only recall
> > >the following right now:
>
> > > LAST MARRIED COUPLE IN AMERICA, THE
> > > XANADU
> > > SWING TIME
>
> There are tons of other movies with incidental skating scenes, but I can't
> think of many off the top of my head. Here are a couple, though...
>
> Roller Boogie (1979, I think.... Jim Bray and Linda Blair). SoCal kids try
> to save their local roller rink from mobsters who want to tear it down.
> Cheesy, very cheesy. Lots of skating around Venice Beach, and in the
> middle of the movie Bray does a program (to a cover of a Supertramp song)
> that features a great jump combination with 7 or 8 jumps in it (mostly
> double loops!). Bray says he's "training for the Olympics."
>
> Skatetown USA (1980?) Never saw this one.
>
> Wasn't there a movie called "Boogie Wonderland" with lots of disco skating
> in summer 1979? If not, there was at least some movie out at that time
> that used "Boogie Wonderland" as the theme song in its commercials.
>
> Wasn't there a skating scene in Heaven's Gate? I remember seeing a
> publicity photo that showed a skating scene.
>
> Can anyone else fill in some more movies here?
>
Here's a couple off the top of my head:
"The Rink" Old Charlie Chaplin Film strap-on skates and all.
"First Kid" This is a kids movie and has one fairly long scene at a roller
rink.
"Solarbabies" This movie is a futuristic mess that has kids skating
everywhere they couldn't possibly skate.
dino...@sisna.com
Oh, yeah!
I remembered one more:
"Skateboard Madness" Horrible bomb about skateboarding with surfing and
roller skating scenes thrown in for no apparent reason. This movie is worth
seeing just for the skateboards that have little skis on them for use on the
snow---somebody had way too much time on their hands.
The roller skating scenes were filmed in Venice Beach CA.
NOTE: I have copies of all these movies, if you want one e-mail me.
Louis Epstein
Lux4989199 (lux49...@aol.com) wrote:
: Great list! There was another 70's tv movie that I don't know if you included
: - it starred Melissa Sue Anderson (I think that's her name) Mary from Little
: House on the Prairie - she played a high school student who moved to a new town
: and joined her high school "figure skating team"- h.s. figure skating teams
: don't occur naturally in the known universe, as far as I know,
USFSA is encouraging them now,don't know about then
: but hey, it's a
Jessica Kalal
dino...@sisna.com wrote:
>
>
> "First Kid" This is a kids movie and has one fairly long scene at a roller
> rink.
>
Between your screen name and your description of the scene in "First Kid" I
thought of another one - "Encino Man" with Brendan Fraser, Sean Astin, and Pauly
Shore. Sean and Pauly are the uncool kids in school, they unearth Brendan (a
Neandertal man) who becomes really cool at school and part of the becoming cool
process takes part at a roller rink :-)
Jess
dino...@sisna.com
>
> Between your screen name and your description of the scene in "First Kid" I
> thought of another one - "Encino Man"
You're right! I liked that movie. My favourite Pauly Shore film.
Also, I can't believe I forgot to mention "Rollerball." This one mixes
motorcycles and roller skating. Not too bad for its time. James Caan does
pretty well in this one.
There is one called "Prayer of the Rollerboys" with Corey Haim. Bunch of
Neo-Nazi boys on roller blades. Lots of stunts.
"Eddie & the Cruisers 2: Eddie Lives" Takes his girlfriend roller skating.
"Off Beat" With Judge Reinhold. Skates in a play near the end of the movie.
"L.A. Story" Steve Martin skates in museum.
"The Truth about Cats and Dogs" Uma Thurman, Jeanine Gorafalo (sp) Guy skates
in the park--so does his dog.
"Opportunity Knocks" Has a guy roller skating in a Target store.
I haven't seen this movie. A friend of mine told me about it.
Now that I've started this I'll probably lay awake at night trying to think
of movies with roller skating.
EasterSlic
One more addition--
I think the title is ONCE AROUND. It came out a few years ago, starring Holly
Hunter and Richard Dreyfus. There is a scene where Holly Hunter skates on a
frozen lake, while her husband, Dreyfus, watches while holding their infant.
Teresa C.
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CM
What about skating in Animated movies
Tom and Jerry MICE CAPADES, Really nicely done film especially at
the beginning where the mouse freezes
the kitchen floor with a pipe pulled
off the refrigerator. Totally implausible
but you can do anything in ink and paint.
There is a fair bit of good skating in ink and paint, the big advantage
is that "ANY" move is possible.
C.
Mmelberg
>What about skating in Animated movies
it's not a movie but peppermint patty skates in the snoopy comic strip.
also as far as movies the mighty ducks get a figure skater to join the team
mary