Movie
Saratoga Trunk
Synopsis
Ingrid Bergman and Gary Cooper paired off again after For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) with this overwrought melodrama based on the romance novel by Edna Ferber. Bergman plays Clio Dulaine, a beautiful half-Creole woman whose return to 1875 New Orleans from Paris creates a stir. Born out of wedlock, Clio's mother was a local woman who became pregnant by a wealthy, married landowner. Scandalized, his wife and family set about humiliating Clio's mother and even paid for Clio's voyage to France in an effort to get rid of the girl. Now Clio returns with a dwarf, Cupidon (Jerry Austin), and a maid, Angelique (Florence Robson) in her entourage. At the docks, Clio meets a handsome gambler from Texas, Colonel Clint Maroon (Cooper) and is smitten. To Clio's delight, their blossoming romance inspires calumny, but Maroon soon realizes that Clio is a gold digger. He departs for Saratoga Springs, where he is working on a venture involving the railroad. Clio follows him there, bent on marrying either Clint or his business partner, Bart Van Steed (John Warburton). Saratoga Trunk (1945) was exhibited to servicemen overseas in WWII for two years before it was released to the general public.
Cast
- Ingrid Bergman
- Gary Cooper
- Flora Robson
- Jerry Austin
- John Warburton
- Florence Bates
- Curt Bois
- John Abbott
- Ethel Griffies
- Marla Shelton
- Helen Freeman
- Sophie Huxley
- Fred Essler
- Louis Payne
- Sarah Edwards
- Adrienne d'Ambricourt
- Jacqueline de Wit
- Minor Watson
- J. Louis Johnson
- Libby Taylor
- Al Bridge
- Lillian Yarbo
- Frank S. Hagney
- Geneva Williams
- Ruby Dandridge
- Paul Bryant
- Shelby Bacon
- Peter Cusanelli
- George Humbert
- Bertha Woolford
- George Reed
- Amelia Liggett
- André de Beranger
- John Sylvester
- Edmund Breon
- William B. Davidson
- Edward Fielding
- Thurston Hall
- Alice Fleming
- Ralph Dunn
- Lane Chandler
- Glenn Strange
- Chester Clute
- Theodore von Eltz
- Monte Blue
- Franklyn Farnum
- George H. Reed
- Bob Reeves
- Al Ferguson
- Hank Bell
- Dick Elliott
- Frank Hagney
- Alan Bridge
- Georges Renavent
- Robert Barron
- Louis Mercier
- Franklin Farnum
- Gino Corrado
- Major Sam Harris
- Edna Ferber
- Ralph Dawson
- Lawrence Butler
- Casey Robinson
- Carl Jules Weyl
- Leah Rhodes
- Leo F. Forbstein
- Fred MacLean
- Joseph St. Amaad
- Perc Westmore
- Ernest Haller
