Wintertime (1943)
- Starring:
- Sonja Henie, Jack Oakie, (more)
- Director(s):
- John Brahm
Synopsis of Wintertime
In her last 20th Century-Fox vehicle, skating star Sonja Henie plays, Nora, a Norwegian expatriate ice champion. Newly arrived in the U.S., Nora and her millionaire uncle Hjallmar (S. Z. Sakall) are sweet-talked into investing in a failing resort hotel, now a hostelry for showbiz folk. Unemployed musician Brad Barton (Cesar Romero) makes a play for Nora, but she winds up with hotel manager Freddy Austin (Cornel Wilde), leaving Freddy's girlfriend Flossie (Lynn Bari) literally in the cold. The film's finale is the standard fund-raising ice show, with Nora as the center of attention. It is typical of early-1940s musicals that poor Flossie, a likeable character throughout most of the film, turns into a venomous virago in the final reel to "justify" her breakup with Freddy. No matter: the film is redeemed by the sweet sounds of Woody Herman and His Orchestra. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Wintertime
- Sonja Henie - Nora
- Cornel Wilde - Freddy Austin
- Carole Landis - Flossie Fouchere
- Helene Reynolds - Mrs. Daly
- Donald Douglas - Jay Rogers
- Nella Walker - Mrs. Prentice
- Jean del Val - Constable
- Charles Irwin - Drunk
- Woody Herman & His Orchestra - Themselves
- Betty Roadman
- Claire Whitney
- Kate Harrington - Bridge Players
- Kay Linaker - Wife
- Jack Oakie - Skip Hutton
- Cesar Romero - Brad Barton
- S.Z. Sakall - Hjalmar Ostgaard
- Matt Briggs - Russell Caner
- Charles Trowbridge - Mr. Prentice
- Georges Renavent - Bodreau
- Arthur Loft - Advertising Man
- Dick Elliott - Husband
- Eugene Borden
- Muni Seroff - Working Man
- Anthony Steffen - Jimmy, skating partner
- Leila McIntyre
- Director(s):
- John Brahm
- Writer(s):
- Lynn Starling, Eddie Moran, Jack Jevne
- Producer(s):
- William Le Baron
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