Figure Skating
Title | Year | Genre | Notes |
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One in a Million | 1936 | Drama | Innkeeper's daughter (Sonja Henie) skates in 1936 Winter Olympics. |
Thin Ice | 1937 | Romance | Sonja Henie is a ski instructor and skater who falls for a prince. |
The Ice Follies of 1939 | 1939 | Romance | Careers clash for ice follies producer James Stewart, actress wife Joan Crawford. |
Wintertime | 1943 | Comedy | Norwegian girl (Henie) must wed an American to skate in New York. |
Lady, Let's Dance | 1944 | Musical | Figure skater Belita joins a California dancing act. |
Ice Castles | 1978 | Romance | Lynn-Holly Johnson as a blind figure skater. |
On Thin Ice: The Tai Babilonia Story | 1990 | Biographical | Fact-based television biopic of champion skater's drug abuse and depression. |
The Cutting Edge | 1992 | Romantic Comedy | A hockey player (D.B. Sweeney) becomes an Olympic pairs skater. |
Tonya & Nancy: The Inside Story | 1993 | Biographical | Fact-based television film about Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan. |
A Promise Kept: The Oksana Baiul Story | 1994 | Biographical | Ukraine orphan's rise to Olympic champion in TV dramatization. |
Ice Angel | 2000 | Fantasy | television film; a hockey-playing boy dies, is reincarnated as a girl figure skater. |
On Edge | 2004 | Mockumentary Comedy | Fake documentary following a local skating competition. |
Ice Princess | 2005 | Family Comedy | A 17-year-old spurns Harvard to try figure skating. |
Go Figure | 2005 | Family Comedy | television film of a would-be figure skater who finds she prefers hockey. |
The Cutting Edge: Going for the Gold | 2006 | Romantic Drama | Made for TV sequel about offspring of skaters from 1992 film. |
Blades of Glory | 2007 | Comedy | Spoof of figure skating with Will Ferrell. |
The Cutting Edge 3: Chasing the Dream | 2008 | Romantic Drama | Second sequel to 1992 original. |
The Cutting Edge: Fire & Ice | 2009 | Romantic Drama | Third sequel. |
Ice Castles | 2010 | Romantic Drama | Taylor Firth in remake of 1978 film. |
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Famous quotes containing the words figure and/or skating:
“A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.”
—Minna Antrim (1861?)
“In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)