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1939 film by Charles Reisner

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 (1939-07-28)
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.

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
Robert Homans as Conductor (uncredited)

Reception

Winter Carnival recorded a loss of $33,696.

References

^ 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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The Man on the Box (1925) Oh! What a Nurse! (1926) The Better 'Ole (1926) What Every Girl Should Know (1927) The Missing Link (1927) The Fortune Hunter (1927) Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) Fools for Luck (1928) Brotherly Love (1928) China Bound (1929) Noisy Neighbors (1929) The Hollywood Revue (1929) Chasing Rainbows (1930) Caught Short (1930) Love in the Rough (1930) The March of Time (1930) Reducing (1931) Stepping Out (1931) Politics (1931) Flying High (1931) Divorce in the Family (1932) The Chief (1933) Whistling in the Dark (1933) You Can't Buy Everything (1934) The Show-Off (1934) Student Tour (1934) The Winning Ticket (1935) It's in the Air (1935) Everybody Dance (1936) Murder Goes to College (1937) Sophie Lang Goes West (1937) Manhattan Merry-Go-Round (1937) Winter Carnival (1939) The Big Store (1941) This Time for Keeps (1942) Harrigan's Kid (1943) Meet the People (1944) Lost in a Harem (1944) The Cobra Strikes (1948) In This Corner (1948) The Traveling Saleswoman (1950)

Films directed by Charles Reisner

The Man on the Box (1925)
Oh! What a Nurse! (1926)
The Better 'Ole (1926)
What Every Girl Should Know (1927)
The Missing Link (1927)
The Fortune Hunter (1927)
Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
Fools for Luck (1928)
Brotherly Love (1928)
China Bound (1929)
Noisy Neighbors (1929)
The Hollywood Revue (1929)
Chasing Rainbows (1930)
Caught Short (1930)
Love in the Rough (1930)
The March of Time (1930)
Reducing (1931)
Stepping Out (1931)
Politics (1931)
Flying High (1931)
Divorce in the Family (1932)
The Chief (1933)
Whistling in the Dark (1933)
You Can't Buy Everything (1934)
The Show-Off (1934)
Student Tour (1934)
The Winning Ticket (1935)
It's in the Air (1935)
Everybody Dance (1936)
Murder Goes to College (1937)
Sophie Lang Goes West (1937)
Manhattan Merry-Go-Round (1937)
Winter Carnival (1939)
The Big Store (1941)
This Time for Keeps (1942)
Harrigan's Kid (1943)
Meet the People (1944)
Lost in a Harem (1944)
The Cobra Strikes (1948)
In This Corner (1948)
The Traveling Saleswoman (1950)

v t e Films produced by Walter Wanger
The Sheik (1921) The Cocoanuts (1929) The Lady Lies (1929) Applause (1929) Roadhouse Nights (1930) Tarnished Lady (1931) Washington Merry-Go-Round (1932) Gabriel Over the White House (1933) The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933) Going Hollywood (1933) Another Language (1933) Queen Christina (1933) The President Vanishes (1934) Private Worlds (1935) Smart Girl (1935) Every Night at Eight (1935) Shanghai (1935) Mary Burns, Fugitive (1935) The Moon's Our Home (1936) Her Master's Voice (1936) The Case Against Mrs. Ames (1936) Fatal Lady (1936) Palm Springs (1936) The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936) Big Brown Eyes (1936) Spendthrift (1936) You Only Live Once (1937) Vogues of 1938 (1937) History Is Made At Night (1937) Stand-In (1937) 52nd Street (1937) Trade Winds (1938) Blockade (1938) Algiers (1938) I Met My Love Again (1938) Stagecoach (1939) Winter Carnival (1939) Eternally Yours (1939) Foreign Correspondent (1940) The Long Voyage Home (1940) Slightly Honorable (1940) The House Across the Bay (1940) Sundown (1941) Eagle Squadron (1942) Arabian Nights (1942) We've Never Been Licked (1943) Gung Ho! (1943) Ladies Courageous (1944) Scarlet Street (1945) Salome, Where She Danced (1945) Night in Paradise (1946) Canyon Passage (1946) Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman (1947) The Lost Moment (1947) Tap Roots (1948) Joan of Arc (1948) Secret Beyond the Door (1948) The Reckless Moment (1949) Reign of Terror (1949) Tulsa (1949) Aladdin and His Lamp (1952) Lady in the Iron Mask (1952) Battle Zone (1952) Fort Vengeance (1953) Kansas Pacific (1953) Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954) The Adventures of Hajji Baba (1954) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) Navy Wife (1956) I Want to Live! (1958) Cleopatra (1963)

Films produced by Walter Wanger

The Sheik (1921)
The Cocoanuts (1929)
The Lady Lies (1929)
Applause (1929)
Roadhouse Nights (1930)
Tarnished Lady (1931)
Washington Merry-Go-Round (1932)
Gabriel Over the White House (1933)
The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)
Going Hollywood (1933)
Another Language (1933)
Queen Christina (1933)
The President Vanishes (1934)
Private Worlds (1935)
Smart Girl (1935)
Every Night at Eight (1935)
Shanghai (1935)
Mary Burns, Fugitive (1935)
The Moon's Our Home (1936)
Her Master's Voice (1936)
The Case Against Mrs. Ames (1936)
Fatal Lady (1936)
Palm Springs (1936)
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936)
Big Brown Eyes (1936)
Spendthrift (1936)
You Only Live Once (1937)
Vogues of 1938 (1937)
History Is Made At Night (1937)
Stand-In (1937)
52nd Street (1937)
Trade Winds (1938)
Blockade (1938)
Algiers (1938)
I Met My Love Again (1938)
Stagecoach (1939)
Winter Carnival (1939)
Eternally Yours (1939)
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
The Long Voyage Home (1940)
Slightly Honorable (1940)
The House Across the Bay (1940)
Sundown (1941)
Eagle Squadron (1942)
Arabian Nights (1942)
We've Never Been Licked (1943)
Gung Ho! (1943)
Ladies Courageous (1944)
Scarlet Street (1945)
Salome, Where She Danced (1945)
Night in Paradise (1946)
Canyon Passage (1946)
Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman (1947)
The Lost Moment (1947)
Tap Roots (1948)
Joan of Arc (1948)
Secret Beyond the Door (1948)
The Reckless Moment (1949)
Reign of Terror (1949)
Tulsa (1949)
Aladdin and His Lamp (1952)
Lady in the Iron Mask (1952)
Battle Zone (1952)
Fort Vengeance (1953)
Kansas Pacific (1953)
Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954)
The Adventures of Hajji Baba (1954)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Navy Wife (1956)
I Want to Live! (1958)
Cleopatra (1963)

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