Winter Carnival (film)

Winter Carnival
Winter Carnival
Directed by	Charles Reisner
Written by	Lester Cole; Budd Schulberg; Maurice Rapf; Corey Ford; F. Scott Fitzgerald
Produced by	Walter Wanger
Starring	Ann Sheridan; Richard Carlson
Cinematography	Merritt B. Gerstad
Edited by	Otho Lovering ; Dorothy Spencer ; Helen Parrish
Music by	Werner Janssen
Production; company	Walter Wanger Productions
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	July 28, 1939
Running time	105 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$412,640
Box office	$474,286

Winter Carnival is a 1939 comedy-drama film directed by Charles Reisner and starring Ann Sheridan, Richard Carlson and Helen Parrish. Jill Baxter returns to her college for the annual Winter Carnival and falls in love with an old boyfriend.

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 Dartmouth College for its Winter Carnival. Years earlier, she had been named Queen of the Carnival. Now, after a divorce from her exotic husband, she revisits Hanover, New Hampshire 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.

Cast[]

Ann Sheridan as Jill Baxter
Richard Carlson as Professor John Wilden
Helen Parrish as Ann Baxter
James Corner as Mickey Allen
Alan Baldwin as Don Reynolds
Robert Armstrong as Tiger Reynolds
Jimmy Butler as Larry Grey
Virginia Gilmore as Margie Stafford
Joan Leslie as Betsy Phillips
Marsha Hunt as Lucy Morgan
Morton Lowry as Count Olaf Von Lundborg
Cecil Cunningham as Miss Ainsley
Robert Allen as Rocky Morgan

Reception[]

Winter Carnival 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

External links[]

Winter Carnival at IMDb
Winter Carnival at TCMDB

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[wagner-1] Matthew Bernstein, Walter Wagner: Hollywood Independent, Minnesota Press, 2000 p439

[2] Maurice Rapf, Back Lot: Growing Up with the Movies Scarecrow Press, 1 Jan 1999 p 113 accessed 28 October 2014

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