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Winter Carnival (film)
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Wikipedia article
'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'.[https://books.google.com/books?id=KUMVWeLVvJAC&pg=PA113&lpg=PA113&dq=%22winter+carnival%22+1939&source=bl&ots=5zQniEWcHj&sig=B9XNc04OqqMlyxlbSn3czEXW0WA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=dfFOVJH-BabImAXmmYHYAw&ved=0CCkQ6AEwBDgU#v=onepage&q=%22winter%20carnival%22%201939&f=false Maurice Rapf, 'Back Lot: Growing Up with the Movies' Scarecrow Press, 1 Jan 1999 p 113] accessed 28 October 2014
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.
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Reception
'Winter Carnival' recorded a loss of $33,696.
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