Sunday, June 11, 2023

"One in a Million" (1936)

Still at 20th Century Fox, we have a star whom the studio didn’t have to worry about having a recording contract – Sonja Henie!
The three-peat Olympic gold medalist in figure skating made her feature debut in 1936’s “One in a Million.”
Sonja is very cute and charming, but couldn’t really act, so they loaded up her movies with lots of songs and specialties to keep us entertained until her big ice routine at the end!
Here’s the title song as recorded on Decca by Boston-area bandleader Mal Hallet and his Orchestra with Jerry Perkins:
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