Silver Skates Explained

Silver Skates
Director:	Leslie Goodwins
Producer:	Lindsley Parsons
Starring:	Kenny Baker Belita Patricia Morison
Music:	Mahlon Merrick Edward J. Kay
Cinematography:	Mack Stengler
Editing:	Richard C. Currier
Studio:	Monogram Pictures
Distributor:	Monogram Pictures
Runtime:	78 minutes
Country:	United States
Budget:	$300,000^[1]

Silver Skates is a 1943 American musical film directed by Leslie Goodwins and starring Kenny Baker, Belita and Patricia Morison.^[2]

Cast

• Kenny Baker as Danny Donovan
• Belita as Belita
• Patricia Morison as Claire Thomas
• Werner Groebli as Frick, Comedy Skating Act Frick and Frack
• Hans Mauch as Frack, Comedy Skating Act Frick and Frack
• Irene Dare as Juvenile Skater Katrina
• Danny Shaw as Juvenile Skater Billy Baxter
• Eugene Turner as 1941 National Skating Champion
• Joyce Compton as Lucille
• Frank Faylen as Eddie
• Paul McVey as Roscoe Hayes
• John Maxwell as Blake
• Henry Wadsworth as Tom
• George Eugene Stewart as Jitterbug Skater
• JoAnn Dean as Herself (Jitterbug Skater)
• Ted Fio Rito Orchestra as Themselves
• Ruth Lee as Mrs. Martin

Reception

The film was a box office success.^[1]

Bibliography

• Michael L. Stephens. Art Directors in Cinema: A Worldwide Biographical Dictionary. McFarland, 1998.

Notes and References

1. Mono Upping Film Budgets. Variety. 17 March 1943. 5.
2. Stephens, p. 219