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Shot partially on location at Dartmouth, this 1939 cult classic rom-com is an essential part of our annual winter tradition.

A publicity-loving heiress (Ann Sheridan) makes an unexpected return to Dartmouth College's famous winter celebration, where she encounters an old flame—now a comfortably tweedy professor (Richard Carlson). Filmed partly on location, this Dartmouth cult classic was produced by Walter Wanger (Class of 1915), whose other credits include Stagecoach, Scarlet Street and Cleopatra. This film is not a masterpiece like those films, but this endearing love letter to his alma mater does provide a fascinating window into Winter Carnivals of yore.

Wanger recruited a young Budd Schulberg '36 (who won an Oscar for On the Waterfront, screening March 2) and F. Scott Fitzgerald (yes, that one) to co-write the screenplay—but that collaboration proved a complete disaster, and Maurice Rapf '35 rushed in to help get the script over the finish line. The Dartmouth Film Society's 75th anniversary would be incomplete without this alumni joint effort, rarely shown on the big screen.

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