Product Details

• Actors: Sonja Henie, Richard Greene, Joan Davis, Cesar Romero, Buddy Ebsen
• Directors: Roy Del Ruth
• Writers: Don Ettlinger, Harry Tugend, Jack Yellen, Karl Tunberg
• Producers: Darryl F. Zanuck, Harry Joe Brown
• Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• VHS Release Date: January 1, 1998
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302989701
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #80,242 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars SONJA HENIE AND JOAN DAVIS IN HIT MUSICAL, January 18, 1999

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This review is from: My Lucky Star [VHS] (VHS Tape)

MY LUCKY STAR 1938 was one of Sonja Henie`s biggest hits. In addition to her wonderful displays on ice, Joan Davis made a great and wonderful comic impact as Henie`s roomie. In addition, Fox cast British import Richard Greene as Henie`s loveinterest, Billy Gilbert for comic relief and Buddy Ebsen for some dancin`a n d comic turns as well. I have always wondered about the fuss made of the Astaire-Rogers films at RKO in the 30s. The Astaire at MGM was much better. So for the 30s, the Sonja Henie films are those I would reckomend. They are truly great thanks to glossy production values and great supporting casts...

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Quite likeable!, July 31, 2011

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This review is from: My Lucky Star [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is a charming film based on a story written by academy award nominee, Karl Tunberg. It features Sonja Heine as the charming young girl who gets mistaken for a wealthy playboy's mistress. In order to dissuade the tongues that wag, the playboy's company sends her to University to model their clothes for the young college girls. While there she meets a very handsome co-ed portrayed by Richard Greene. Both lead actors have been forgotten somewhat, but their charm lives on in this film. It also features Ceasar Romero in a very young role and the comic relief of Arthur Treacher. It makes for a likeable film. There is only one scene that is somewhat disturbing and that is two men who mistakenly end up kissing under the mistletoe. But other than that, it makes for a nice film to watch at home.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars How about Sonja Henie on DVD?, January 12, 2011

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D. S. Wymore "Golden Age of Hollywood fan" (Catskill Mountains, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: My Lucky Star [VHS] (VHS Tape)

It isn't Sonja Henie I like so much - it's the men that she is paired with in her movies that make them enjoyable today. By today's standards, her skating is rather pedestrian and certainly not up to the calibre of today's skaters. Her acting isn't much to write home about, either. Oh - but the good looking men! My Lucky Star is probably her least-known film because it didn't pair her with one of Fox's more well know leading men (Richard Greene, best know for a Robin Hood TV series from the 1950s and a few Shirley Temple movies). Well unknown or not, he sure was a handsome guy. And so were her other leading men, especially John Payne. Perhaps Fox is dragging it's feet when it comes to putting her films on DVD because they think - 1. there's no market and 2. they are in black and white and no one wants a movie in black and white (oh, but we do!). Hopefully Fox will see their way into releasing these films as "video on demand", the way that Warner Brothers markets their older, and maybe less popular films.