The Countess of Monte Cristo

Here's the last screen appearance of charming blonde-haired, blue-eyed Norwegian Olympic ice-skating champion Sonja Henie, who made several highly successful films in the late 1930s and early 1940s when her competitive days were over. Sadly, this is not one of them. The one-joke plot has Henie and Olga San Juan as Norwegian barmaids posing as a countess and her maid at a luxury hotel, where the witless proceedings are enlivened by three songs from San Juan and six skating turns from Henie. Romance is provided by the star's off-screen skating partner, Michael Kirby. Recommended only for Torvill and Dean fans.