Winter Carnival (film)
Winter Carnival | |
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Directed by | Charles Reisner |
Written by | Lester Cole Budd Schulberg Maurice Rapf Corey Ford F. Scott Fitzgerald (uncredited) |
Produced by | Walter Wanger |
Starring | Ann Sheridan Richard Carlson |
Release date | 1939 |
Country | US |
Language | English |
Budget | $412,640[1] |
Box office | $474,286[1] |
Winter Carnival is a 1939 film.
Budd Schulberg and F. Scott Fitzgerald, among others worked on the script, an experience that led to Schulberg's novel The Disenchanted.[2]
Plot
Publicity-loving heiress Jill Baxter (Ann Sheridan) returns to her old college for its Winter Carnival after divorce from her exotic husband and reunites with the boyfriend Richard Carlson, now a tweedy professor, that she had dumped for the husband. They flirt and re-find love on the ski slopes and at the parties of the celebration; meanwhile, her young sister hopes to be chosen as carnival queen, Jill's own title while at college.
Reception
It recorded a loss of $33,696.[1]
References
- ^ a b c Matthew Bernstein, Walter Wagner: Hollywood Independent, Minnesota Press, 2000 p439
- ^ Maurice Rapf, Back Lot: Growing Up with the Movies Scarecrow Press, 1 Jan 1999 p 113 accessed 28 October 2014
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