Sonja Henie

John Payne, Sonja Henie and Milton Berle star in this lighthearted romantic comedy that features the Glenn Miller Orchestra as a struggling band named the Dartmouth Troubadours. The group is about to get it's big break at a posh Sun Valley ski resort, when the romance between singer Vivian Dawn (Lynn Bari) and piano player Ted Scott (Payne) is shaken by a publicity stunt set up by band manager "Nifty" Allen (Berle). "Nifty" has arranged for Ted to adopt a war refugee, and Ted becomes responsible fore a beautiful Norwegian (Henie) who decides she wants to marry him!

Titled The White Stadium (Das Weisse Stadion), the film of the II Olympic Winter Games St. Moritz 1928 in Switzerland holds particular interest because it was directed by Arnold Fanck, a geologist turned filmmaker known for his sumptuous outdoor cinematography and notorious for discovering the acting talent of Leni Riefenstahl. Fanck had an aesthete’s eye for filming natural landscapes, and the first twenty-five minutes of The White Stadium dwell on the beauty of the Engadine region; each image, whether of a lake or snow-clad woods, is evocative in itself.

A figure skater's boozing husband joins an ice show after being barred from hockey for life.