Beautiful Sheridan has just divorced the oily count she married, and dodging a barrage of reporters, she takes refuge at Dartmouth College during carnival time. Once queen of the carnival, she now watches her sister try to win the same honor and she also flirts with an old flame,
unexciting professor Carlson. The background is the thing in this handsome production, and no wonder--scripters Schulberg and Rapf were both Dartmouth alumni. F. Scott Fitzgerald was personally hired by producer Wanger but, after writing only a few lyrical scenes, Fitzgerald went on a toot and
Wanger fired him. This was one of the author's last scriptwriting assignments before his untimely...
Released:
1939
Rated:
NR
Length:
105 mins